Comments on: Best books according to readers /2018/08/13/readers-best-books/ Books live here Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3 By: readerwitch /2018/08/13/readers-best-books/#comment-1451 Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:48:59 +0000 /?p=159#comment-1451 In reply to neowatercolour.

Hi! I’m sorry to be getting back to you so late. I wish I had many heads and a few more hands so that I could be doing all at once 🙂 That would be quite convenient. Thanks for your list of books! I never read Asimov, I should try! I understand you about the book. I also have a couple of books I always have with me. I don’t carry them with me, but if I move places, they move with me.

]]> By: neowatercolour /2018/08/13/readers-best-books/#comment-1450 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:52:42 +0000 /?p=159#comment-1450 Papillon, yes (but then I saw the film before reading the book, which proves your theory!)
many on this list I think of as quite “boring” 🙁
I’ve been pondering my favourite book, since you started your investigation, and am choosing “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov (science fiction and short stories, the best being “Robbie”) I read it 30 years ago (well before the film, which is really nothing like the book) and many times since.
My other, real & absolute favourite books are not fiction/novels – “An Illustrated Life” and “An Illustrated Journey” by Danny Gregory. Chapters by individual artists/architects/urban sketchers etc, where they discuss their painting/drawing/sketching, where it came from/why they do it, and show their work. I often carry one of these books (quite heavy !) with me, to look at and absorb, wherever I go, especially when I feel low and they always uplift me and “nourish” me.

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