The smell of books is just nice and it feels nice. No unnatural light before going to sleep and the battery is never empty.
Writing assignment #25
Books, until I was twenty I didn’t want anything to do with them, I thought they were terrible. I really had to start reading Roald Dahl’s The BFG and other children’s books like that. I really had to learn to read. Well, of course I could read, but learning to read an entire book. After that I immediately got the hang of it and read countless true stories. Especially child abuse/abuse, I don’t know why. Maybe because the story came from themselves and I thought that was so brave. Then I read a lot of true stories about prostitution and drug addiction. I just couldn’t understand how you could end up in such a situation. Later I moved on to the easy novels, like Sophie Kinsella. My colleagues also read them, so we could exchange books nicely. At one point I received a free one-year library subscription. I felt like I had read the entire library that year. Especially self-development books. After that I wasn’t a member for a while to recover. Then switched to digital reading. Also has its advantages. If a book is not available in the library, I simply read it digitally. But I have been a member of the library again for a few years now. And I come there quite often. Not to pick out a book, because I always reserve them. I already know exactly which one I want and if it isn’t there or if I can’t find it, I find it annoying. I really have to be careful not to read obsessively, because if I don’t pay attention I can finish a huge book in one weekend. I now try to alternate the fiction stories with informative books, so that I don’t read too much and too intensely. I have also written a blog about some of those books. Many more, by the way, but they are still in draft form because I want to rewrite them first.
Ps. I recently had a lecture on forest bathing and was told that a leaf or tree never dies when it turns into a book. So a book is alive, so everything in the library is alive. Quite a nice thought. And that is why the smell of books remains so pleasant.