Mice_Elf

I have a vast selection of both sorts, fiction and non-fiction. Once tried to catalogue my books, whilst I was at school.... Didn't get very far - by the time I'd reached I in the authors I was running at 7000 books and I'd barely scraped the surface...so I gave up.

Good job the folks have a big house!

paulr

For anyone who doesnt know,this is Mice's folks house......



7000...........seriously?????...

paulr

Corner

Its clare's thread,she wont mind

Mice_Elf

My folks live in a red cross?

7000, seriously....and this was some...ooh...15 years ago? Something like that. My dad developed a nervous twitch whenever the word "shelves" was mentioned... In the end he re-arranged my room and then threw shelves down one wall, floor to ceiling... After 6 months...I needed some more.

Would not like to count how many books I have now...

paulr

If you read one a day,thats 19 years....

Mice_Elf

Ah...but you are talking to the person who once read a 563 page book inbetween lessons one day at school...

Going to the library as a child each week we could get 10 books out per card - that's 30 between us. My brothers would get 5 or 6 books each and I would fill up the remainder on their cards. By the time we'd got home I'd invariably already worked my way through at least 2.

I've also read "It" by Stephen King in just over an hour. Then I had to write a book report on it for my brother's friend as he needed it for the following day... He got an A+!

Mice_Elf

Aye... I'm a fast reader...always have been. It *was* just over an hour - not an hour straight!

Clare

Well, it's taken me a few weeks to read The Black House, but I still haven't finished it. I only read at night in bed and find I cannot get to sleep as easily if I don't. I get it from my Mum, she's just the same.

Saying that, I only have about 50 pages to go, so that'll be an early night for me

paulr

......and at Mice's pace,instead of going to bed at 11pm,make that 10.57......

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