tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post2217690070314492718..comments2024-03-25T22:59:30.053+00:00Comments on Desperate Reader: Getting stuck in my waysDesperate Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-45461659439283329592009-11-10T18:48:17.804+00:002009-11-10T18:48:17.804+00:00Verity, happy to lend you anything if you promise ...Verity, happy to lend you anything if you promise to give it back...Don't like to press things on people on the grounds that they might be like me and totally fail to read or return, but as a librarian I'm sure your above reproach in these matters!Desperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-59517358227701754292009-11-10T15:37:55.922+00:002009-11-10T15:37:55.922+00:00No-one seems to offer to lend me books (with the e...No-one seems to offer to lend me books (with the exception of Simon from stuck in a book, who is based at the same college as me). Very few of my friends "read" (i.e. read for pleasure) and my Mum gets her books from the library. Would love to be lent more things.verityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825551404394913715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-79671016445751592222009-11-08T21:21:19.538+00:002009-11-08T21:21:19.538+00:00One day somebody will offer to lend me a book I ac...One day somebody will offer to lend me a book I actually want to read, but it hasn't happened yet. Worse though is being asked to lend them - the people you would least ewxpect seem to maltreat them, lose them or just plain deny ever having them. It all dates back to when I was very young and my mother loaned my Chronicles of Narnia to the son of a teaching colleague. i got them back three years later in bits. Why?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-23945340915120401862009-11-08T12:48:32.182+00:002009-11-08T12:48:32.182+00:00Don't they just, and what words are more off p...Don't they just, and what words are more off putting than 'I know you'll love it' when someone presses a very doubtful looking book on you? I wonder how many books I would love I've missed out on out of sheer bloody mindednessDesperate Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-41080270820864056042009-11-08T10:03:03.562+00:002009-11-08T10:03:03.562+00:00I *hate* being lent books too. I feel tyrannised ...I *hate* being lent books too. I feel tyrannised by them - they sit unread and seething on the shelf and I am plagued with guilt as a result!TheLadyFerrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04258776687360116248noreply@blogger.com