...and bookmooch.com has only made me more so.
BOOKMOOCH>>
the greatest place to swap books :) - whether they be classics, romance novels, suspense, plays, magazines, etc etc etc. I absolutely love that site, and i never really had a favorite go-to site in my life, besides my addiction to playing those blasted games (bejeweled, diner dash, and neopets FML). AND i get it from my mama. *Sigh*
thanks to my mom, this love of reading is quickly becoming a nuisance >_< i have books strewn all over my room, books stuffed here and there...and when i see a used book store...I GO CRAZY! my latest endeavor --> the green apple on clement in SF. For the 3 minutes that Vic let me browse, I found Phillipa Gregory's The Constant Princess for 2$...ha! It took me a day and a morning to finish it and wasn't a bit guilty. I would've been guilty if i indulged myself that one day i was at borders itching to buy the book.BUT PATIENCE is awesome :)
It's like a slow-forming disorder...my constant lookout for books for a bargain, books for instant gratification, and books to add to my "collection" ... ahh just two weeks ago i splurged and bought 3 books from GreenEarthBooks on half.com because it was easier than waiting at bookmooch. (The Tao of Pooh, The prophet, and Sophie's world) because they were only 0.75 cents...3 books for the price of one!!! (my total being 12$) it like made me the happiest to receive those books.
Do you want to know why i read? Mm i don't even know if that's even easy to explain...Maybe if i give you a couple of books for examples and perhaps you can understand a bit more about me...
First of all what do i like to read? well...this is my priority list>> Classics, Romance, and fiction...those main three categories...i occasionally venture but these just hold much more of my interest...
I started loving to read classics because of all my AP English teachers...Props to Mz. Garcia, Mrs. Rose, and Mrs. Hall...Without them, i would never have read Frankenstein, Moll Flanders, Peter Pan, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, .etc. and have all the nitty gritty ways to go about reading a classic. All the underlines, inbetweens, and whims were far beyond my reach until i was settled into those classes. I mean i used to think reading was just reading stories, but hey theres actually more to learn...
My second infatuation is romance novels, and i really don't have to justify to anyone why i read "soft porn", "smut", or whatever people negatively call it. Risa would agree with me when i say that reading the ROMANCE involves the emotions invoked by the stories...I mean if you ever have the time, i'd recommend Jude Deveraux's Heiress <-- what the eff, it's like the story of aladdin's JAzmine but with all sorts of characters. It's interesting! BUT i absolutely abhor harlequin romances...so short there's no character development at all, it's like eating dry wall and thinking that because it looked good it would taste even better...I think romance novels kinda ruin it in terms of looking for love because it could build up expectation about the sort of romance you want to be swept away in...but the stories are always the best...
Fiction..hands down, i got nothing to say about this. LOL
Im just fascinated by all the worlds created, the situations, the lessons, the deviousnous, the tragedy, the heartbreak, the simpleness, the imagination...
Bookmooch is the place to go when you have books you dont want and dont want to spend time trying to sell on half.com or amazon.com...might as well trade for what you want to read!! sometimes you get lucky :)
currently tackling Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
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