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Favorite Books?
It's National Library Sheflie Day! If you have a local library, or even a small home library/single bookshelf/nightstand with a book on it that you've been neglecting for months, you can share a shel...
I have it digitally, which is fine for me. I can't justify the space for what I would have accumulated and disk space is cheap.
I used to have lots of long boxes of golden age comics (40s-60s) back in the mid-60s. They disappeared in one of our moves.
Worth adding that I used to have original newspaper-style copies of Rolling Stone and the first few years of Heavy Metal in the 70s. My hoarding skills started early.
If you need to offload any other comics, I'll send you my address. :smileywink:
I'm not much of a novel reader, as I don't really have the longer or more relaxed attention span required for it, but I do like reference works, and especially those concerning history. I'm a sponge when it comes to historical information, and especially that concerning WWII, though the older I get the less of it I retain. :p I can also get lost for hours in Wikipedia articles.
I am currently reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, though, which is a bit odd considering I don't normally read things like that.
"I am currently reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, though, which is a bit odd considering I don't normally read things like that. "
I love the Meditations. Yes, I'm weird.
maratsade wrote:"I am currently reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, though, which is a bit odd considering I don't normally read things like that. "
I love the Meditations. Yes, I'm weird.
It's definitely a good book. He was a pretty brilliant guy.
BTW, did you notice that the introduction was LOOOOOONG for such a small book? I thought, nah, this has got to be a mistake. A third of the book is the introduction! :p
