[bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket
- From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:14:14 -0500
The wording in this quote sounds pretty mature for an eight-year-old, but it is
beautiful.
Sue S.
From: Estelnalissi
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:31 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket
Dear Booksharian Friends,
Thanks to all of you who contributed to the discussion on post apocalyptic
books and especially to Bob W. for starting it. The detail in which these books
were described helps me to decide which to read. I've only read three of them
of which, The Postman, the book, not the movie, was my favorite. It was
hopeful, inspiring and exciting.
In a few days I'll be checking in The Plum Thicket by Janice Holt Giles. 'The
copyright is 1954 so some of you who enjoy books written then might want to
check it out. Whether you like her work in general, I think most of you might
share some of its eight-year-old narrator's views on books and reading.
"I stood before the rows of books, undecided, all of their bindings, all of
their titles, alluring. I cannot remember when I did not have a love for books
amounting to reverence; my passion for reading is so deep that it is actually
an addiction, like the drug habit. I would read the telephone directory if
nothing else were available. But not only is opening a book, any book, any
time, an adventure which makes my pulse beat faster, I love books also for
their own sake. I like to hold in my hand a beautiful book, feel its quality
and texture, smell it and, I can think of no better word, love it. I
particularly love the old leather bindings, such as those on my grandfather's
shelves, and I particularly love, too, the heavy, torn paper and the exquisite
type which many of them had. A beautiful book is truly a work of art.
What should it be? Scott? Thackeray? Trollope? Brontë? Tentatively I took down
Madame Bovary. I knew Grandfather greatly appreciated Flaubert But the text was
in French. Regretfully I put it back. The Dickens shelf was next, and with a
kind of homing instinct I picked out David Copperfield. I had read it twice
already, but it was always irresistible."
Always with love,
Lissi
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