My grandfather once told me I would probably never get around to reading all the books on my TBR list. He was quite right, though it hasn’t stopped me from adding to it - currently numbering 5,510 books. If anything, as long as one never stops reading, one always has something (or many things) to think about. Hopefully one reads widely and becomes a more well-rounded person because of it.
Yes, he was bang on. But I'm with you, there is so much out there still to look at that it's impossible to stop searching. I hope reading does make us better people, and even if it doesn't I'm still enjoying it in the meantime. Do you have particular favourites (genres, author, collectibles)?
I am all over the place with my reading interests: literature, classics, Children’s books, memoirs, biographies, science, travel, current events, psychology, history, science fiction, fantasy, humour…and I have many favourite authors (too many to list here!). :)
Sadly I am the slowest, most distractible reader in history so my 'books I've read this year' pile tends to be similar to what many read in a month. Which, as you can imagine, means my book to be read list is H U G E
It's quality not quantity. Some people certainly regard reading as a competition which is a terrible way of looking at it. I'm reading a book of poems at the moment by the Welsh poet Alun Lewis which has these lines in it:
Linger not in my library,
If you seek in it wisdom, not pleasure.
It's not quite the same, but does run alongside my feeling that reading should be enjoyable, not a game of one-upmanship.
My grandfather once told me I would probably never get around to reading all the books on my TBR list. He was quite right, though it hasn’t stopped me from adding to it - currently numbering 5,510 books. If anything, as long as one never stops reading, one always has something (or many things) to think about. Hopefully one reads widely and becomes a more well-rounded person because of it.
Yes, he was bang on. But I'm with you, there is so much out there still to look at that it's impossible to stop searching. I hope reading does make us better people, and even if it doesn't I'm still enjoying it in the meantime. Do you have particular favourites (genres, author, collectibles)?
Agreed! The reading journey is lifelong.
I am all over the place with my reading interests: literature, classics, Children’s books, memoirs, biographies, science, travel, current events, psychology, history, science fiction, fantasy, humour…and I have many favourite authors (too many to list here!). :)
Sadly I am the slowest, most distractible reader in history so my 'books I've read this year' pile tends to be similar to what many read in a month. Which, as you can imagine, means my book to be read list is H U G E
It's quality not quantity. Some people certainly regard reading as a competition which is a terrible way of looking at it. I'm reading a book of poems at the moment by the Welsh poet Alun Lewis which has these lines in it:
Linger not in my library,
If you seek in it wisdom, not pleasure.
It's not quite the same, but does run alongside my feeling that reading should be enjoyable, not a game of one-upmanship.
That's a hard agree from the East Devon camp. What a great quote too, thank you