I truly do love books.  On a circulating email one of the questions asked is always "what store would you chose to max out a credit card if you had to"... my answer is always a BOOK STORE!  it seems that no matter how many books I get, I always want more!

Ever since I was little and learned to read (my mom taught me by age 4) I have devoured books.  I have several hundred of my own, but always desire more.    I would read at the table during meals, under my covers with a flashlight at night, on the screened porch in the swing, in the bathtub, at stoplights when I'm driving, whenever I possibly can!  When I was younger I wasn't allowed to read at the dinner table or if we were having a meal as a family (it wasn't a big deal if it was just me at the breakfast table with a bowl of cereal)  And the few times I did bring one to the table, I would sit with my knee sticking up over the top of the table curled up in my chair.  My dad would reach over with his fork and stab my knee!  To this day I hate having my kneecap touched!  

Anyways!  There is a fabulous website- all about books- BUT with a twist!  It is
http://www.bookcrossing.com/.  This site is about hiding and finding and sharing books.  Here's the deal in a nutshell- you get a book (can be a new one or something from a yard sale, or thrift store) you go to the website and "register" it.  Give is an ID number in the front inside, and then post in the boards where you are going to leave it.  Then... you wait!  Hoping that someone finds it and gets on the website to tell you about how they found it etc, or what they think of the book- things like that.  Also- you can go online and find books in your town- do the same thing and then hide it again if you like ! It is so fun!  This is happening all over the world and is like a bibliophile's little secret.  Of course, some places are more heavily covered than others (but anyone can change that!) and start hiding! 
I'd love to hear from you all if you find or hide a book! 

Go- spread literature, experience a wonderful journey of the written word!  Share the wealth- and be sure to come back and tell me all about it!

LOL!

Posted by javamamma

I'm out "random blogging" this afternoon and found ya. We have some of the same interests and what caught my eye is your avatar - love it! I'm going to add you to my friends list. Hope you'll stop by sometime!

Posted by writmm

Hey Heather, I don't mind out. Your blog template is different from mine. Why don't you try putting it under begin blog, don't save your changes, but preview them and see if it shows up where you want it. If it doesn't, delete it from there and try under begin main page. That's the trial and error method I used to figure out where to put the ticker on mine.

Also, while we are helping one another out, how do you get those emoticons in your posts? When I click on the smiley face when I am making a post nothing happens.

Posted by CreativeHomeschooling

Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. I am not much a reader, as far as books go. However with the advent of the internet, I am not an avid reader! Does reading on a computer monitor count, if so, I read TONS. I don't know why I find it hard to sit down and read a book. Maybe it's just not interactive enough.

Jennie von Eggers
www.TimesTales.com
www.CreativeHomeschooling.com

Posted by writmm

So when is the baby due?

It may be a cookie thing with the emoticons. I'll have to look and see what I can figure out with that. I would really like using them!

Hope you get your ticker thing figured out. If you want to email me your log in information, I could go in and try and figure out its placement for you if you can't figure it out. Send me the ticker script too if you want me to try and do that for you.

Posted by writmm

Been meaning to say...I love books too. My favorite Twilight Zone is the one with Burgess Meredith where he loves to read and is reading every chance he gets (I can so relate) and then one day, while he is reading in the bank vault, there comes a nuclear war and he is the only survivor. He goes out and there is the library...and sits down and says now he has all the time in the world...then his coke bottle glasses break and there he is all alone with all those books and can't read a page.

My lament is so many books...so little time! Always nice to meet a kindred spirit.