The truth about books...

[curiouswombat]

speakr2customrs posted last night about a conversation with our daughter, sparked off by her purchase of 'Heresies in the High Middle Ages’ for next term of her history degree, and ending with a discussion about Hussite daleks. This is the sort of conversation that goes on in our house - no wonder I love them both!

However, I am going to let you in on the conversation a little earlier as she unwrapped the book.

D-d - "I do like having books," (Pause, considers weight of book)... "except for having to carry them around," (pause, flicks through a few pages of fairly solid text)... "and having to read them, of course."


PS - Chapter Five of Return of the Key will be posted later today.

Comments

[quinara]

Hee! I know that feeling. Books are so much better once you've read them the first time, and can come back to them with familiarity...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

[gamiila.livejournal.com]

::big hearty guffaw::

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

She was so serious too..!

[jerusha]

LOL! Carting books around is a pain.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Reading them is, apparently, almost as bad.

[calizen.livejournal.com]

""and having to read them, of course."

Well, yes, there's that. (Still chuckling)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I know - it gave me the giggles too.

[rachel2205.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, the theme for the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2009 is Heresies and Orthodoxies, and I'm trying to get a panel together right now for it!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of D-d and her 'de-fen-est-rate' at work today (for no reason in particular, other than it made me smile).

And I know exactly what she means about having books - I loved getting all my new coursework books, but the thought of actually reading them .... Though my subject was accountancy, so not so interesting a read.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Then there is the beautician dalek... "Exfoliate... exfoliate..."

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

You know what books are the worst to carry around? Biology textbooks and folklore books such as Thomas Keightley's 500+ page The Fairy Mythology. Sadly, I'm cursed enough to enjoy both topics and have to travel with them.

I pity the librarians that have to put back my reading selections on the shelves.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Biology textbooks
I remember having an anatomy text book that spent almost my entire degree course propping up the broken leg of my bed...

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I always hated having to limit the number of books I'd get from the library when I didn't have a car - but if I didn't limit myself it was awful trying to schlep them home!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Even when she was at school her bag was always incredibly heavy, I can see her point!

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Many school texts tend to be long on dry and short on action and drama. Isn't this her last year?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yes - she finishes in June 09! Then graduates in July. And then, probably, starts her post-grad law course in September...

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Ah, so your daughter won't be "finished." How much post-grad will she have to do?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Two years, I think, then some time articled - which is like an apprenticeship, and for which she will be paid!