a good book is when, the closer you get to the end, the more your heart breaks. you can't stop yourself from ending it, but your heart breaks all the same, and you don't want it to end.
a good book is when, right after you're done, you'll go straight back to the beignning and start skimming through it all over again, savouring it all over again, holding on to the little bits that really meant something to you.
a good book is when it changes your life, even for a little while, painting your world, your language a different colour, tinting and tainting it with it's own.
when you'll even suffer through reading the foreword, and the little writer's note, even though you know it's usually glorified self-advertising crap, just to have a little more to do with the book.
when, long after it's finished, you'll lay awake at night imagining the lives of these characters moving on, slightly saddened by the fact that they closed the door on you, and you never really get to know what happens at the real end of it all.
when at random moments during your day you'll remember and you'll laugh, and be the only person to know why. inner smile (texas, by the way, and it's a good song).
i just finished a GOOD book.
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true, true, true.
i love to read a good book.
which one did you just finish?
well said.... dont think that could b said any better.
what's eating gilbert grape, by peter hedges. read it!
Here's a recommendation for you:
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka
..........it is neither about tractors or in ukrainian :) trust me.
I haven't had that for ages.
(oh, wait - that's a lie. I read On The Road again recently, and the last book I fell in love with was I think The Catcher in the Rye. But that was a while ago.)
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