Monday, September 3, 2012
Required Reading "The Secondhand Bookseller"
While reading "The Secondhand Bookseller" I could relate with the story. Though there has not been a time I couldn't have much pretty have whatever I wanted I did feel reading was one of those things to find peace in doing. In the house I lived in I didn't get much attention. As for the Marina I felt she was mature and very adult like. I wouldn't have the courage to ask someone for money for a book when i knew the money was tight. I liked that she had pretty much read her whole school library and wanted to read more. Once she found the secondhand book store everything seemed to go uphill from there she could buy a book and enjoy it. She gave up some of her stuff to be able to keep up with her habit of reading.
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I liked your response. I felt like I could relate in this story a lot too. Growing up, I too, didn't get a lot of attention like I wanted as a child and found myself reading and keeping a diary as my "escape" from what was going on around me. Although I didn't read a whole library of books like the girl in the story did, I read small chapter books to keep me occupied. I also wouldn't have had the courage to ask someone for money to buy a book. To this day, I hate asking my own parents for money or any of my friends or family. I just don't like the feeling. I think it was pretty great for her to want to sell her own things in order just to buy a book. Most people today wouldn't want to sell something that means a lot to them just for something small as a book, but from the reading it sounded like their money was tight and she wanted to do whatever she could. I could agree with all of your response and felt like we were both on the same page. (:
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