Do People Still Read Books?

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.

Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language.

Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.

At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.


Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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I’m even thinking of starting a thread - everyday. - a book a day. People - what do you think ? 😅
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Cool
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#23 it’s mainly about the Wild West
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I’m reading all quiet on the western front rn for hw and it’s well 😭😭😭
I don’t rlly like reading unless I fr dig the book like Percy Jackson, that thing was fire
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#31 nice. I put it back last min at the billing counter because my hands were full :( I got lord of the rings series and 30 other books that time lol
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#34 good. As long as we read SOMETHING 😅🙏🏻🌸
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#30 that’s amazing. The beauty of reading again and again is, it opens up new things to us. It’s not the same.

I have experienced it many times. That’s why I can’t really say “I have read this book” it’s a very living thing. It grows with us.

Even something like an Aesop’s fables can do this to you 😂😅
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#33 👍🌸
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breezehappysquirrel wrote:
Pl share you fav book pics here!

Okay, you asked for it. This is a fair sample of my reading material from the late 1960s through the 1970s. After that it was mostly technical manuals. A lot of technical manuals. No, more than a lot.

I have to give a shout out to Lovecraft, whose book I couldn't find. I've got rid of so many books and have some packed that I don't know what I have any more. Not a lot, really. These are the ones I keep out. Yeah, several of these books are from the '60s and '70s. I bought Dracula in 1968. Now I'm mostly into history of all kinds.

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Also share your top 3 books!

Mine:

1. The book of Life, by Jiddu Krishnamurti
2. Death an Inside Story , by Sadhguru
3. The book of Mirdad, Mikhail Naimy

I can say 300 set of top 3 books 😂❤️
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The lord of the rings is my favourite book

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#39 that’s nice. And technical manuals? On what? Being a squirrel, I want to know, just to be safe
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If you haven't read or heard of John Flanagan's books they're really good ones

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Im reading his side series Brotherband rn

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#41 I’m going to read it the coming week. It looks so sacred 😂❤️
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Enid Blyton is one of the best authors.

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And it’s so majestic. Just to look at it even. ❤️❤️❤️
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#48 now I regret leaving it last min at the book store. Lot are quoting it
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#47 yes at school I read it
The illustrations are so fresh in my memory