World Book Lovers Day 📖💚

I’ve been a keen 📖 🪱 for over 35 years, it’s always something that’s brought me great joy, I love going into a charity shop and have a nosey at what bargains can be found. When I was at junior school in Owdham, I was a very unsettled kid due to my ADHD & Autism. I was told “If your ever feeling down or angry, go down to the library and sit with a book” well that was like opening Pandora’s box! Or telling Harry Potter he was a wizard!

Since that day through senior school and boarding school there was always a book with me. While the kids were outside at break time or playing sports when I was at boarding school, I preferred to be inside with a book and a mug of tea. Through out early adulthood until today I carry a book in my bag, I was even sat in the quacks the other day early for an appointment day, reading Concorde by British Airways pilot Captain Mike Banninster.

I think I’ve probably got 120+ books spread between 13 boxes and the shelf to the side of me. I still say I think my most controversial author would have to be Albert Speer with his book Inside the Third Reich, it’s probably over fifty years old. I picked it up while waiting for a bus in Matlock bath at a little second hand book shop.

I’ve got books on military history, Buddhism, motorsport, rugby, cricket, horticulture, murder, psychological, autobiographical, alongside works of non fiction to.

When I get my living room decorated, I want to invest in a nice long bookcase, to house my collection.

I want to add classic stories from my childhood such as The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Hardy Boys, Johnny & The Bomb and later books I read in my mid thirties, the Harry Potter Collection.

I can imagine like me, many will have a shopping list on Amazon that’s listed as books and has enough books to fit a cargo ship in it.