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A box of books! The Fires of Waterland
B is for Books. Not as old as scrolls, an old-world source of information, but more easily stacked. Books. Beautiful, incredible in their simplicity. Reams of pure, virgin paper marked purposefully with delights both erratic and erotic. Pages with strange phonetic letters, pictures, ideas, and dreams forever glued, stitched and bound together in common purpose. For civilization, few things have been more important than books.The world has been formed by words offered in books. In the world of the writer, there are few things more important than books.For a writer, books are close to the heart; a goal to be achieved, a project to be realized, perhaps a collection, a repository for a lifetime of work. The light of knowledge shines upon civilization from the opened book. I am fond of books, and always have been. From dictionaries and worn sets of Encyclopedia Britannica offering expansion of the mind and the world itself, to simple schoolbooks, dog-eared Superman comic books, and works of fiction like The Grapes of Wrath, I like them all. Books are an invitation into the storied world of fantasy, ageless wisdom, wit and wonder alike. I like books so much I write my own. Just got a whole box of them. Aren't they beautiful? That's why B is for Books. Is that Incoming I hear? Photo credit: wlk photography"The light of knowledge shines upon civilization from the opened book. "
It’s a very deserving B!
Thanks, Alexandra! I’m glad your comment arrived here! “:)
I would be so jazzed if I had a published book. Congrats!
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Thanks, Tami ! It is exciting! Happy A to Z !
Totally on the same page as you… pun intended. I love books!
(Stopping by from the A to Z Challenge)
Welcome to Incoming Bytes, great pun too, Kate, thank you!
I knew you would be the proverbial kid in the candy shop when you got those 😉 Congrats.
haha, too funny,Red! Thank you… It’s quite one thing to think about having books, and totally a different thing to actually have them! Thanks! “:) ~R
Omigosh, how exciting! Congratulations, you new and inspiring author. 🙂
Thank you so much, Glory! It is exciting–and I am inspired by your encouragement “:) ~R
Congrats on having a book published. I tend to read books while on vacation, and not so much at home. At home, I read tons of stuff on the net…a different routine I guess. Reading your post made me think of the old movie Fahrenheit 100..not sure of the number, where they burned the books?
Thanks, Sandy! I hope they don’t want to hold a book burning for The Fires of Waterland. It’s hot enough already. “:)