While pursuing my RSS feed this morning I saw that Inara Pey had blogged one of Strawberry Singh’s Monday blogger meme’s. And since I have been putting in a lot of effort in the last few blogs (which both have been really rewarded and received quite well by my readers), I thought that this week a meme would be a rather excellent variety.
Reading for me, and books in general have always made a significant part of my life. From a young age books were an escape mechanism to the outside world that was not always and wonderful and rose tinted as most people look back on their youth. Of course, everyone is a avid reader in my family and when we used to go on holidays, there were usual several boxes of books in the trailer for each family member, and as the holiday grew, you first read your own books and then went back trying to find books from others that you liked. By the end of the holiday; you would probably even have read the books that you did not even liked the look of in the first place!
Even right now, I am surrounded by bookcases filled with historical, fictional books, as well as technical and autobiographical books (a large proportion of my bookshelf to my right contains various technical books on a lot of different subjects). Some cookery books, although most of them are housed in the bookshelves in the kitchen. After all you want those where the action is.
I think for me, there is also some correlation between book reading, and that what eventually led into me being a writer of some sorts, although I sometimes think I lack the drive and discipline (and as well at this moment, maybe the right environment and surroundings) to do something like that full time.
And with that, onwards to the meme:
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