I like to read on the plane too. Although I don't read 100 pages an hour, but a nice fat book will keep me happy for awhile in flight. Oddly, a plane is the only mode of transportation that I can read on. Reading anything other than a map in a car makes me feel really ill. I think trains are o.k. too, but I usually want to see the countryside when I'm on one.
I like snooping in other people's bookshelves too. I really like those big coffee table books. Not necessarily for the text, but they have the most awesome photographs.
Your bookshelves where you've read everything multiple times, reminds me of my mother. Her bookshelves were full of english and german books. Of course, the english ones she could always buy more of, but the german ones were next to impossible, so she would reread and reread and reread. When I went to Germany one summer, she gave me a list of authors and book titles that she had. I met this one lady who said she had lots of my mom's favorite author, Utta Danella. She said since she doesn't reread books, she give them all to me. It ended up being something like 15 hardcover books. I shipped them back, because there was no way in hell I'd be dragging around 15 hardcover books all over Germany with me. My mom was thrilled. When I was living is Switzerland, buy mom a Christmas present was REALLY easy.
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Tue, Dec. 13th, 2005 05:49 pm (UTC)I like snooping in other people's bookshelves too. I really like those big coffee table books. Not necessarily for the text, but they have the most awesome photographs.
Your bookshelves where you've read everything multiple times, reminds me of my mother. Her bookshelves were full of english and german books. Of course, the english ones she could always buy more of, but the german ones were next to impossible, so she would reread and reread and reread. When I went to Germany one summer, she gave me a list of authors and book titles that she had. I met this one lady who said she had lots of my mom's favorite author, Utta Danella. She said since she doesn't reread books, she give them all to me. It ended up being something like 15 hardcover books. I shipped them back, because there was no way in hell I'd be dragging around 15 hardcover books all over Germany with me. My mom was thrilled. When I was living is Switzerland, buy mom a Christmas present was REALLY easy.