Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers’ answers. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND post a comment on our post with a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post to share with us and all those who are participating. If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. If you can't come up with ten, don't worry about it---post as many as you can!
Reading! : I love to read and so by having a blog about books and reading it gives me even more reason to read more and more and MORE
Sharing books with other people: One of the main reasons for me personally to start the book blog was to be able to have a place to discuss, share and enjoy books with other people that share my interests
Being asked to recommend books to other people: It never stops amazing me when I get asked for recommendations from friends. Plus it’s even better when they read things I recommend and they love them just as much as I do!
Going to a book shop and getting so excited that I stroke book covers: I just love the sight of books and new books with their shiny covers and fresh pages. It’s one of the long list of reasons how you can tell I am a bookish person. No one but a bookish person would get their kicks by going to a book shop and consider it a ‘fun day out’
The smell of a new/old book: This is a strange thing but I am firmly in the ‘real books’ camp over eReaders (i don’t care if you like them but i just can’t deal with reading off screens with my eyesight!) so the smell of a freshly printed book or a musty and loved novel cannot be replaced.
Having other bookish people to share with: Book people need other book people. It’s a known fact and oh so true because we spend a great deal of time reading; a solo hobby in general, so they need book people to converse with. If only just to have a break between books and dialogue with real people instead of fictional ones!
Making new friends: Like my previous reasoning, talking to other bookish people leads to making bookish friends and I can honestly say that I’ve made a load!
Discovering new and upcoming book talents: Part of sharing book interests with other book people and book bloggers is about finding new books, upcoming talents and authors. It’s wonderful finding something new and even better when they are starting out and you can follow a career as it develops.
Trying something new: Until recently I just stuck with the same genre of books and didn’t really consider books unless they were fantasy/supernatural/sci-fi YA books. However I’ve branched out into more types of YA books, the odd biography and even (dun dun daaaa) adult fiction books!
Learning: They say that you learn something new everyday and reading doesn’t just help; it allows you to learn 50 new things every day from new words, how to spell, different cultures, countries, history, science, art and on and on the lists goes on. Never stop learning because there is never an end to the amount of things you can learn about.
All that is left to say is HAPPY 1 YEAR BLOGOVERSARY to Broke and Bookish!
nice list! I like your last point, about reading helping you learn, I think it is one of the biggest and best things about reading.
ReplyDeleteI used to totally smell library books! And that crackle sound they make with that 'protective' cover. God, for the longest time I would only check out a book if it had the 'crackle cover' LOL
ReplyDeleteLol - Im glad Im not the only crazy person who smells books. I literally breath them in while Im reading! I don't even realise Im doing it most of the time. It makes me parents laugh when the watch me read! However - I prefer new books to old.
ReplyDeleteIm not a fan of eReaders either. I just read a book on my mum's kindle and.. erugh. I didn't like it at all. I found it awkward to hold and I just hated it.
Amy @ Turn the Page
The musty and rich smell of an old book with yellowed pages - I don't think there's anything more wonderful :) Nice list!!
ReplyDeleteI love the 50 new things a day that reading allows you to learn. Thanks for sharing that.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy I became a book blogger, too. Here's my list of Ten Reasons Why I'm Happy I Became a Book Blogger (and a Bookish Person).
I do love reading genres that I would not have otherwise read had I not been a blogger. Blogging is good!
ReplyDeleteI love the smell of books too. Whether they're old musty smelling ones or brand new ones. I was recently reading 1984 and swapped the edition I was reading (a pretty new one) for a very old one we have had for donkey's years mainly because the font was easier to read. And, of course, it smelled exactly as an old book is supposed to smell!
ReplyDeleteLove the rest of your list, too! It's pretty similar to mine! :)
it seems that the book smelling is the most popular answer.
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