What is your favorite hobby or pastime?
Not that anybody need care about that. This is more of an announcement to myself. It is deeply significant to me and my favourite thing to do. Reading opens up infinitely unique and interesting worlds for me that never existed before. There are so many unique pleasures associated with seeking out and reading books.
Becoming acquainted with interesting, larger-than-life characters who in many ways feel more real than real people.
Gaining a deeper understanding of life and all of its complexity, pain, joy, chaos, calm and ambiguity.
Conversing with someone in an ether and imaginary world that is constructed in your own mind to electrify you. There are a lot of great things about being alive but reading is surely one of them.
The pursuit of books either electronically or physically is something I do with all of the fervor of a crack addict trying to get the next hit. This involves rifling through the wares of bargain basement book sales, second-hand stores, department stores, online bookshops and libraries.
There is that euphoric feeling of kinship, empathy and understanding when reading non-fiction, the feeling of not being alone in a notion or experience that you previously believed only you yourself understood.
What are you reading at the moment? I’ve recently migrated to reading ebooks and I cannot tell you how great that is, to carry a whole library in my handbag. Lots of new book reviews to come. I have an massive tsundoku to get through and review on here.
Happy Sunday wherever you are and big hugs my dear friends π€ π π π
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