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To: reed13k
My library has surpassed 25k books

Ya, but how many of them have you read?

1,826 posted on 10/17/2022 6:11:14 PM PDT by blu (Bagster's ping on the side oh, and FJB!)
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To: blu

:) All but some of the text books - they tend to get repetitive

I will say that as I’ve spent more time reading online - especially these threads - that my physical reading has gotten way behind, but ... I always have a book in hand or in my work bag.

My wife actually commented about not seeing a book in my hand a few weeks ago (much to my chagrin)... I’ve been traveling so much for work that it’s all I can do to keep up with reading my news, the thread, and my devotionals.

The good news is that my reading habit seems to have transferred across generations (if not genres) and my oldest daughter is asking for something to read that isn’t so...political or angsty...I’m recommending as a start either Tad William’s Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy (Dragonbone chair being a favorite) or Orson Scott Card’s Seventh Son/Alvin the Maker series. She was an early reader like me reading advanced at 5-6 years of age.

My younger daughter I was a bit concerned about until I walked into her room when she was in about the 7th grade to tell her supper was ready. She looked up from a Patterson novel and said “Dad, it’s like a movie in my head!”...I knew then I never had to worry about her reading ability ever again...She LOVES ‘The Hobbit’.

I’ve managed to introduce both of them to additional materials over the years...but I still haven’t gotten them to really visit the KJV of the bible much to my disappointment....at least not that they’ve discussed with me and despite gifting them a nice study volume one Easter. I dug deep into it in my Jr. high/early HS years myself.


1,842 posted on 10/17/2022 7:25:30 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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