Monday, February 13, 2012

Bibliophilia

Oh for the love of...books!

One of the homeschooling books I'm currently reading (or re-reading, rather) is Educating the WholeHearted Child by Clay and Sally Clarkson (2006 printing).  It's one of my faves.

(You can't look inside.  I'm borrowing this image from Amazon.)

I read this little section on page 81 yesterday, and wanted to share it with you.

"Whole Book Fever ~ This affliction is spreading rapidly throughout the home schooling community.  It is contracted through frequent contact with whole books.  There is no known cure.  Symptoms include the following:

  • You lose the motor function needed to close a good book and put it down.
  • You have an insatiable desire to browse in other people's libraries.
  • You hyperventilate with a rapid heartbeat upon finding a whole set of mint condition Landmarks with dust jackets at a garage sale.
  • You are physically not able to pass by a stack of old looking books without stopping to look at them.
  • You schedule your vacation around the annual community used book sale.
  • You begin stacking books horizontally in your bookshelves to make room for more books.
  • You fail to tell a friend about the library sale for fear of missing a rare find.
  • You buy a fourth copy of Johnny Tremain at a library sale (or Goodwill) because you forgot you had three others.
  • You actually worry about which child will get which books from your home library when you die.
  • You start a booktable business just so you can buy more books at dealer's cost."

It's funny 'cause it's true!

2 comments:

  1. Ahhh...books and Sally Clarkson. Two of my favorites.

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  2. The second one makes me think of you, Bailey. When we had your family over for dinner (way back before Caroline), I caught you staring at all the book spines in our built-in bookcase. Right then and there, I knew you were a kindred spirit. = )

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