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Booknut wrote: "Dear Lucinda and Rimpy,Thank thank thank you for your heartwarming comments! If anything, if this group is really that awesome, it's all thanks to you guys! My goal was simply to bring together t..."
aww! well you succeeded!!! this is so amazing!!! it's so much fun to be able to talk to people about books! :D
guyyyys! I love u all but seriously I don't wanna cry! ok, confession num 1# for Becca here: I'm so happy for getting to know you all, especially in this awesome group! What is friendship if not chatting all day about books and sharing other things we like as well! :)
Becca wrote: "guyyyys! I love u all but seriously I don't wanna cry! ok, confession num 1# for Becca here: I'm so happy for getting to know you all, especially in this awesome group! What is friendship if not ch..."i couldn't agree more!!! it's been so much fun getting to you guys!:)
Oh wow. Everyone is getting all mushy!
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*laughs* I know! I don't know how this happened!!:D But I think this calls for a ...VIRTUAL GROUP HUG!!!:D
Aww..hugs! *stretches out her arms for a virtual group hug* ;)
my PC screen looked at me in disdain when I tried to hug it.. There has to be another way.. (*deep in thought*)
Booknut wrote: "Dear Lucinda and Rimpy,Thank thank thank you for your heartwarming comments! If anything, if this group is really that awesome, it's all thanks to you guys! My goal was simply to bring together t..."
You definitely succeeded:) I've known since I learned to read that I loved it and could never get enough of it, joining this group has given me a deeper love and understanding of books. I love all the amazing people, and am really glad I got to know them, and I always have so much fun. Thank you Booknut!
Lucinda wrote: "Dear Everyone,What on earth has been hapening today whilst i have been out??!! As an English student i am trying to (cliche) 'live the dream' and fulfil it by working towards an English Based car..."
I think it's great that you are pursuing an English based career! I am not 100 percent sure what I want to do with my life yet, as I am still in HS, but an English based career is definitely pretty high up on my list of maybes.
And same here. No one in my house enjoys reading. I am the only one in my family, which makes me really sad, because I can't share reading with them. It makes it hard to connect to my family because they don't understand the thing that means the most to me. So thank you for letting me go on and on about the most important thing in my life:)
Hey Booknut, there's really nothing to thank. Your group is really a big thing for me. Here, I'm free to be the person I am. My friends are jerks because they have no idea how books can so mind-blowing! So, it made me sad because I had no one to share about this awesome thing. But after coming here, its been like WOW! I was actually relieved to know that here people actually know what magic these books possess. So, really THANK YOU for that invitation you had sent me and making me a part of this club! This thanks is for everyone in this group! Thank you all! :)
Booknut wrote: "Claire wrote: "Oh wow. Everyone is getting all mushy!"*laughs* I know! I don't know how this happened!!:D But I think this calls for a ...VIRTUAL GROUP HUG!!!:D"
a little late but HUGGGGGGG! :D i love y'all!
I have only just joined this group, but from what I have seen of it everyone seems really nice! I hope that I can make some friends on here. I love goodreads and the way it helps you connect with fellow bookaholics!
Lucinda wrote: "Dear Emily,Welcome, and it is lovely to meet another fellow bookaholic too!
Lucinda Xx :)"
WELCOME!!!! :D so glad to meet another person who loves books!
€mily☻♫♥ wrote: "I have only just joined this group, but from what I have seen of it everyone seems really nice! I hope that I can make some friends on here. I love goodreads and the way it helps you connect with f..."Welcome Emily! It is very nice to meet you. I look forward to talking to you!
€mily☻♫♥ wrote: "I have only just joined this group, but from what I have seen of it everyone seems really nice! I hope that I can make some friends on here. I love goodreads and the way it helps you connect with f..."Hey ya! Welcome to this fantastic group! Hope to chat books with you soon! :)
€mily☻♫♥ wrote: "I have only just joined this group, but from what I have seen of it everyone seems really nice!..."wow! here goes the warmest welcome filled with chocolate ice cream flavor (as u obviously like ice cream) :) WELCOME
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Choc chip
Choc mint
Cookies and cream
I hate
Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberry, banana and mint oh and mango
And I'm strawberry! Oh I also love honeycomb! :)
Haha back to ice-cream flavours? I found a yummy espresso coffee one recently!
Ok. I finally settled on my favourite ice cream flavor; Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough!!!!!
I love cookie dough! Me and my friends (sorry, my friends and I, I am being continually being reminded of that!) always go and buy cookie dough in a packet and eat it! It's really nice but kind of sickening.,,
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Cookie dough lover right here! Chop chip cookie dough ice cream is delicious as well!
Great! I'm having one cookie chip dough ice-cream now! :D Its delicious! :) ;)
Lucky you! I have never had Cookie Dough Icecream, but I'll be sure to try it!
I love Mint Chocolate, Cookies and Cream, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough:)
Are we related Booknut? I wish we were, then I'd have someone who understands that we don't MEAN to act WEIRD, we just ARE. Here's my confession:
I had a random fact phase and when my cousin was grossed out by germs I told her that there were over 3000 bacterias on her RIGHT NOW.
She looked horrified.... Which was my goal anyway... ;P
Shatha wrote: "Are we related Booknut? I wish we were, then I'd have someone who understands that we don't MEAN to act WEIRD, we just ARE. Here's my confession:
I had a random fact phase and when my cousin was g..."
Haha Sometimes I think we are all related. I mean, how could we not be with all the similarities?
And that sounds awesome. I wish I was there for that!
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Here's my confession:
I had a random fact phase and when my cousin was g..."
*laughs and gives you a virtual hug* I feel like I'm so close to all of you! Its so true...we don't mean to come across as weird, or just plain 'nerdish' (gosh, I hate that word!) - we're just being ourselves, fuelled on by an appreciation of books and of these fantastic stories that stick with us.
I think it takes alot of strength to talk about something you love. I mean, anyone can be part of the herd and go "Yeah, I love Justin Bieber too! Oh, and I hardly ever, like, read BOOKs - like, why would I, like, do that?!" It takes a unique person to say "No, I don't like the same things you do, and I do like to read. Reading is great. Books are great." I mean - look how talented bookworms are!!
- We can recite quotes offhand
- We can memorise different worlds and their societies (e.g. How to play Quidditch, The types of elves or demons, the different towns in Middle Earth, etc.)
- We can gain happiness or relax by reading - simple!
- We get to experience a range of emotions simply by reading
- We connect with others through our love of books
- Books smell nice
- We find cool bits of useful information (e.g. I once found out from reading a fictional book about a girl that could see the dead that a guy who made perfumes made it through the Titanic incident and survived but his perfume samples were lost. They found them again, perfectly preserved when they were searching the wreck, and they were stoppered so he had them returned to him! True story!!)
I think we all ARE related. Kindred spirits, people who like the same things and have this sense of deja vu when they read about other people's lives and experience - we're all connect to eachother somehow. I don't know how! But we are. :D
Hugs all around!
Booknut
Booknut wrote: "Shatha wrote: "Are we related Booknut? I wish we were, then I'd have someone who understands that we don't MEAN to act WEIRD, we just ARE. Here's my confession:
I had a random fact phase and when ..."
Yes! I agree completely. My mom tells me that I get "to wrapped up in reading and need to keep one foot in reality." I recently started watching FullMetal Alchemist, which is an amazing anime show and I love it. My mom has actually told me not to watch it because she does not want me to get wrapped up in, and I quote, "a cartoon!"
Yes, I do tend to get wrapped up in fantasy, but can you blame me? What's wrong with it if it's the only thing keeping me sane?!?! I can't live without it. I think a big dose of reality might actually kill me.
My mother says to me all the time that i need to keep my head out of the clouds and come back down to Earth: which ususally is a correct statement! Sometimes i can get so wrapped up in a fantasy world, what i am writing or the storyline of a book that i am reading that it clouds over life around me and i do have trouble disconnecting & coming back to 'planet Earth'!! My mind is just constantly on overdrive, with usually about ten stories in my head right now that i could sit down and write all at once...the only trouble is getting it onto paper in time & not in a complete mess :)
It makes you wonder at times those people who do not read or who don't read much how thier minds differ, and thier views on the outside world differ?? x
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Lucinda wrote: "My mother says to me all the time that i need to keep my head out of the clouds and come back down to Earth: which ususally is a correct statement! Sometimes i can get so wrapped up in a fantasy wo..."I do the same thing!
I don't understand how any one who doesn't read manages to stay sane...
Ah! I do all those things to!!! I love love all things books! And I'm always creating characters/stories in my head! I think that if I couldn't read I would quite literally go insane! :) I think we are all kindred spirit's brought together by our love of books! Hehe not to get emotional but I love y'all!!! *hugs*
Anna wrote: "Ah! I do all those things to!!! I love love all things books! And I'm always creating characters/stories in my head! I think that if I couldn't read I would quite literally go insane! :) I think we..."I do that as well and I would die if I couldn't read!!!!
I love you all too!
Olivia wrote: "Anna wrote: "Ah! I do all those things to!!! I love love all things books! And I'm always creating characters/stories in my head! I think that if I couldn't read I would quite literally go insane! ..."If I didn't have books I don't know what i would do with myself!
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Anna wrote: "Olivia wrote: "Anna wrote: "Ah! I do all those things to!!! I love love all things books! And I'm always creating characters/stories in my head! I think that if I couldn't read I would quite litera..."Same!
Lucinda wrote: "A world without books...unthinkable!!"I would just die.
Olivia wrote: "Lucinda wrote: "A world without books...unthinkable!!"I would just die."
Agreed!
Thank thank thank you for your heartwarming comments! If anything, if this group is really that awesome, it's all thanks to you guys! My goal was simply to bring together those who loved books - meeting all you wonderful people and having so many laughs and new ideas sprout up has been an added bonus and a welcome one!! It is so wonderful to get to discuss, chat and obsess alongside all of you - and I'm so glad you're enjoying being apart of it all! Because, at the end of the day, if you all fall just a little more in love with books, I'll be content!!
Booknut:D