Books Glorious Books

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Are bookworms born or made?

Who cares ........... I am one

Have enjoyed a life long love of Books.

Must have spent years reading, lost in the frivolities of fiction & fascinated with fact/s.

It struck me recently that I cannot remember a time when books were not an everyday event. My father read to me every night until I could read to him.

We read so many marvellous books, he could animate the story just enough to keep my attention to Shakespeare for children, it's human narrative stories were interspersed with Swallows & Amazons, Black Beauty and Lassie, balanced to marry agreeably with my age and feed my love of Animals in with literature of note.

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The very worst time in my life up to now, was a period of a few years

when I was too ill to be able to read.

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I think it was about 4 years

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During the last year of it, I was studying a Creative Writing BA

Top of the list core subject ........ English Literature,

all done via a voice programme on my laptop

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Then I came to Egypt for a summer

I was able to write easily

Came back for a gap year

the reading returned

Have to stay here now

Love my books too much to risk losing them again

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Writing a novel

here

life so hilarious

so many outrageous characters

such a lot to go on

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Keep a journal too

Always have

Write everything down

could be a novel page tomorrow

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