Mourning the loss of books.
Posted: 29 Apr 2015, 21:08
I had nearly 350 books in 2011 and I accidentally burnt our house down I lost more than half of them and what did survive has almost all been lost as well due to moving.
My favorite book is my copy of The Gunslinger by Stephen King, my favorite uncle that taught me how to read gave it to me when I was 12 and it survived the fire and the moving.
It has been my "comfort blanket" since I was 12 it is what I have always taken with me to the hospital it is what I took into surgeries with me all freaking 15, I carried it in my purse or car it helped my cope with my disabling anxiety and chronic illness.
It has so much meaning to me, it is full of stories not just what Stephen King wrote but my memories of all the times I read it and what was happening in my life at the different times I read it.
It survived a fire, moving, a storage room that leaked,being toted around and read over and over again just to have over 80 of its pages ate by a mouse.
Words cant describe how much it hurt me to find my beloved book in ruins along with 2 of my Game of Throne books.
When we discovered we had mice when we moved in we put traps and poison down well apparently they are to smart for that but that's OK my husband brought me a kitten home the day before I discovered the massacre and she is being put to work bringing the murderers to justice.
How do you handle the loss of a book?
My favorite book is my copy of The Gunslinger by Stephen King, my favorite uncle that taught me how to read gave it to me when I was 12 and it survived the fire and the moving.
It has been my "comfort blanket" since I was 12 it is what I have always taken with me to the hospital it is what I took into surgeries with me all freaking 15, I carried it in my purse or car it helped my cope with my disabling anxiety and chronic illness.
It has so much meaning to me, it is full of stories not just what Stephen King wrote but my memories of all the times I read it and what was happening in my life at the different times I read it.
It survived a fire, moving, a storage room that leaked,being toted around and read over and over again just to have over 80 of its pages ate by a mouse.
Words cant describe how much it hurt me to find my beloved book in ruins along with 2 of my Game of Throne books.
When we discovered we had mice when we moved in we put traps and poison down well apparently they are to smart for that but that's OK my husband brought me a kitten home the day before I discovered the massacre and she is being put to work bringing the murderers to justice.
How do you handle the loss of a book?
