Time to Burn
Books ©
By Michael
Casey
As a child I
read by the yard, I must have read most of the History books on the shelves by
my desk in Class One at Primary school. I read all the Alistair Maclean thrillers
too I spent many happy years as a reader. I even read the Bible in Mass on a
Sunday. Though as a catholic a reader is just that a reader, not anybody with special
training to preach. So reading has been part of my life. Nowadays I read the newspapers
online, so I’m still a reader. When I write a new story I read it back out loud
and the girls give me marks out of ten for each new story, yes it’s a form of
punishment for them.
So with the
reading bug inside me my girls have grown up as big readers too. We have 3
bookcases in the house, and now after years of reading there is no more room in
the house for any more books. So it’s time to burn the books, you will all be
horrified, am I a Right wing or Left wing dictator? Or just a demigod of a dad? When I say burn
books I would never burn books. Books are special and cost money. Hudson’s in
Birmingham used to be a rabbit warren of a book shop and I have happy memories
of it.
No book
should be ever burned, maybe used a toilet paper as a last resort, but books
should be treasured. You should give them to a Charity Shop, or to a jumble
sale but never never burn them. So why did I use the title, time to burn books?
To get you attention, also because books are “burnt” now, as in burnt to a disc
or to a device. Kindle books are what I’m talking about. Technically the word
burnt is wrong, but technicians can argue about that.
So Kindle
will be coming to town, or to our house. My small daughter asked for one
because she has no more space on her
bookshelves. The cheapest one is the same price as 10 books, that’s real books.
So once you have paid that price you have a platform to read you books on. Can
I recommend 10 great ebooks
https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1 yes my ten books which are on Amazon
worldwide.
I’m told there are load of free books too, the
Classics, so I’m happy about that. Then for a few quid you get loads of new
books. If I read by the yard my girls read by the kilometre, my small daughter
if she does not become a horror writer could become an editor as she reads so
fast. The joke about editors is that if one was at the dentist and somebody
drops a magazine, and it flutters to the floor, before it hits the ground the
editor will have read it.
So I’m full
on anticipation for the future and Kindle, to kindle means to set on fire, and
kindling is used to start a fire. So it’s a good name for a reading product
because it sets minds on fire, it fires the imagination, and sparks make all
the difference in the world of learning. So I’ll get back to you all with news
of the Kindle when it arrives next week. I will of course hide the charger and
cable from Totoro our cat, for she loves to nibble cable. Totoro will no doubt
hear many many tales, do you think Puss in Boots is available?
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