books my friends
By maribea
@maribea (2366)
Italy
February 4, 2007 5:45pm CST
Books are my friends since I can remember....I can still picture myself in the first bookshop I was in as a child...whenever I was granted a prize from my parents, I chose a book and I spent wonderful moment lingering between them..the books on the shelves and waiting for the rare moment in which I would find my new friend...my new book
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@mcrowl (1050)
• New Zealand
20 Mar 07
Books are friends who never go away. You can come back to a book years later, and it will still be waiting for you, even if you've ignored it for a long time. And re-reading a book you've loved is like meeting up with an old friend again, and learning even more about them.
Go BOOKS!
@arseniajoaquin (1732)
• Philippines
18 Mar 07
I hope you would include these in your reading.
I am a Christian, a child of God, baptized into Christ on October 1, 1989 and I belong to the Church of Christ founded and headed by Christ as shown in Acts Chapter 2. I am given the gift of knowledge and understanding Bible Greek and I translate the Word of God from Greek to
English PLAINLY - Greek word into its English equivalent with additional words for grammar purposes written in italics so that readers may delete them as the wish.
I have already published GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS (Greek-English), THE WILL New Testament (Greek to English), ELEMENTS of SALVATION, The Right Way, GOD, ORIGIN, TRANSFER into PERFECTION, GREEK-ENGLISH (Grammar & Vocabulary), WORDS in THE WILL New Testament, and others shown at
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I have seen the versions being circulated worldwide and they are generally admitted to be 80% NOT translations. My translations are 99.99% translations and I see the truth, beauty, and sweetness of the Word of God. I hope these books could also help people understand the Word of God and be saved. May God bless you.
@albert2412 (1782)
• United States
18 Mar 07
You are my kind of person. I really love to read a good book. I like to go and buy good books from the public library here (history, art, science, mystery, etc.)
@hopeful28 (1439)
• Singapore
19 Mar 07
Books are also my friends. In fact, I think I spend more time on this friend than my human friends, lol. I read books in almost all my spare time even when I am eating or if I know I will be in the bathroom quite a while! I am now worrying about where to put all the books I have bought over the years because my book cupboard is running out of space and I still have so many books which I have not put into it yet. I have been seriously reading since I was seven or eight and my dad used to buy me many books and I would also borrow from my brother when he gets some from his friends. Sometimes in order to finish a book in order that he can return it to his friends the next day I will read into the early hours of the morning just to try to finish the book because I can't bear not to know the ending. I usually also have a book on my bed so that if I can't sleep or just feel like reading, my 'friend' will be on hand.
@samsbaby (16)
• United States
14 Feb 07
i am the same. i have always read every thing. i have a book every where i go.
i am tying to get my boys reading like i do. but unfortunately they are more like my husband and dont like it very much. i have been buying them books that i liked as a child hopeing that i will find something that they will enjoy.
@maribea (2366)
• Italy
14 Feb 07
maybe they are going to discover books later on in their life...my elder brother kept laughing at me when he was a child...he laughed at me because I was so fond of my books...now he is the one who read the most in our family....keep on telling your children about books and keep reading yourself...they'll follow you one day
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
14 Feb 07
I really wasn't into reading as a child. We didn't have money for books. Any books that I read were done at school as a part of my education. I believe that this was the reason that I was never fond of reading. There are few authors whose books that I often read. When I find them at a tag sale I will buy them and read them in the summertime mainly. I love to spend time in the sun reading a good book.
@maribea (2366)
• Italy
5 Feb 07
my dear...I have no special question for you...I would love to share my experience with you and see if there is anybody out here who had the same experience as me...to find a friend in a book since he or she was a child
have a nice day
maribea
@freesoul (3021)
• Egypt
20 Mar 07
Oh yes, I grew up before the home computer and internet times and books were my only way to seek knowledge an entertainment.. there was TV and movies too but books is something else, it's something you hold and treasure, i still have every book i ever bought :) yes they are like friends you can't sell them or give them away easily :) too bad that internet takes most of my free time now but i still find the time for reading books, not as much as i used to though :(