Readers
I just came from our little local library Friends of the Library Meeting (oh yeah, I'm Friendly like that). The librarian who sits with us revealed that very soon they will be making available downloadable books through Overdrive. That led the rest of us (all 7) to go off-topic on the coolness of eReaders. I have an old Nook - not the new Nook Color, but I am the only one with an eReader.
Everywhere I go with my Nook someone asks me about it. My lunch is routinely interrupted. Pedicures are not quite as peaceful as they once were. Barnes and Noble should pay me, because I'm a prodigious spokeswoman. I say that I've handled the Kindle and the Sony and that I liked the Nook best. I talk about how many books I can carry around all at once. I speak to the convenience - giant tomes are the same size as slender volumes and the same as magazines on the Nook...and they're easy to read in bed. I talk about the fact that I can access the web on it, and if I run out of book I can just download another one. I deal with the argument about buying books vs. buying downloads. I point out the downloadability of library books. I say to people who say "I just want a book" (inevitably making a gesture reminiscent of cracking a book's spine), "I know. I like books, too. But more importantly, I want to read."
In John Irving's The World According to Garp, when the title character is just getting to know Helen his future wife, he says she should become a writer, since she reads so much. As young as she is, Helen knows this: she probably won't be a writer, but she will always be a reader.
Sometimes I think I would like to be a writer. I read stuff that just blows me away, with it's cleverness, or it's tightness, or erudite...ness. Or sometimes it's just spectacular storytelling. And I wonder HOW did this ever get written?, or WHY didn't I write something like this? But always I know, I will ALWAYS read.
Nook has a new ad on tv that I like very much. It goes like this:
Til all the books are read and all the pens are put down
And everything there is to learn is learned
Till tears are no longer shed
And the zingers have all zinged
And the irony is all ironed out
Til the heroes retire and the monsters return to their dens
And all the plots are wrapped up
Til there are no more twists and turns, no more guns in drawers, no more shaggy dogs
Til rhymes stop rhyming and pots stop boiling
And everyone is happy and there's nothing more to say
Til that day
By hook or by crook
by book or by Nook,
I will read.
Read forever.
(can you even believe I put a commercial in my update here?)
Anyway, I usually add, I will always read!
And I think, even if that day did come? I would pick up some wonderful thing that I'd read before and I'd read it again. Because I will always read.
Just like Garp's wife.
Everywhere I go with my Nook someone asks me about it. My lunch is routinely interrupted. Pedicures are not quite as peaceful as they once were. Barnes and Noble should pay me, because I'm a prodigious spokeswoman. I say that I've handled the Kindle and the Sony and that I liked the Nook best. I talk about how many books I can carry around all at once. I speak to the convenience - giant tomes are the same size as slender volumes and the same as magazines on the Nook...and they're easy to read in bed. I talk about the fact that I can access the web on it, and if I run out of book I can just download another one. I deal with the argument about buying books vs. buying downloads. I point out the downloadability of library books. I say to people who say "I just want a book" (inevitably making a gesture reminiscent of cracking a book's spine), "I know. I like books, too. But more importantly, I want to read."
In John Irving's The World According to Garp, when the title character is just getting to know Helen his future wife, he says she should become a writer, since she reads so much. As young as she is, Helen knows this: she probably won't be a writer, but she will always be a reader.
Sometimes I think I would like to be a writer. I read stuff that just blows me away, with it's cleverness, or it's tightness, or erudite...ness. Or sometimes it's just spectacular storytelling. And I wonder HOW did this ever get written?, or WHY didn't I write something like this? But always I know, I will ALWAYS read.
Nook has a new ad on tv that I like very much. It goes like this:
Til all the books are read and all the pens are put down
And everything there is to learn is learned
Till tears are no longer shed
And the zingers have all zinged
And the irony is all ironed out
Til the heroes retire and the monsters return to their dens
And all the plots are wrapped up
Til there are no more twists and turns, no more guns in drawers, no more shaggy dogs
Til rhymes stop rhyming and pots stop boiling
And everyone is happy and there's nothing more to say
Til that day
By hook or by crook
by book or by Nook,
I will read.
Read forever.
(can you even believe I put a commercial in my update here?)
Anyway, I usually add, I will always read!
And I think, even if that day did come? I would pick up some wonderful thing that I'd read before and I'd read it again. Because I will always read.
Just like Garp's wife.