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bebong2005 56F

12258 posts
4/9/2008 5:22 pm

Mental Hygiene.

If I want to buy a book but have no patience browsing at the back cover or inside cover; (depends upon the edition if it’s a hard copy or a paperback) to have an idea what the book is all about, I go for KING.

I am yet to encounter A KING that disappoint. (But of course I am a hard fan. So don’t take my word for it) I made that mistake with Paterson’s and Koontz’s; and boy I never repeated it. So, I’m KING for life!

Occasionally, I pick up some GREGORY (good for historical mix) COOKSON (good for easy reading) lots of AUSTEN and the BRONTE sisters, few of CHARLES DICKENS, and the good old THOMAS HARDY and his maddening crowd. (I find that everybody has to own a DICKENS, even one is not going to read it) same as Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Madam Bovary and all those novels that made an uproar in history like Erica Jong’s Fanny.

Once and a while, I pick up books from unknown authors. The reasons may vary from interest, mere curiosity or I just plainly like the way it looks on my mantel piece. (This last reason may seems to some outrageous and ...frivolous. but who cares?)

But if I am really in the mood, I choose EDGAR ALLAN POE. I am very proud to say that I own a complete copy of his works bundled in one gorgeous hard cover volume. He is my best!

I first heard Poe’s from my mother; whom aside from her fondness for singing post-war songs, also has a passion for POE. She recited ANNABEL LEE in all hours, called and uncalled for. And who can forget that Tell Tale Heart and the infamous The Raven? KING is my favourite, but POE is my hero!

And that pretty much sum up my Mental Hygiene. I occasionally needed those tools to polish what I have to polish and feel ‘clean’. Everybody has their own way of doing things. Hygiene after all is a very personal thing.

~ Jolielaide

bebong2005 56F

9764 posts
4/9/2008 5:53 pm

i really have to learn to sleep early

~ Jolielaide

eb1209

4/9/2008 6:37 pm

Hello Bebz! I'm a big follower of Edgar Allan Poe too!...I love Prose and Poetry, but the big difference betwen us, is that you're a BOOK WORM
Just call me ELZ

smiley1957 66F

4/9/2008 9:08 pm

i use PH care
when ur clean down...mind follows

what am i saying???
guess am still thinking of the water by the sea
nice swim...este tampisaw pala

seriously...
i love books...
i don't mind who's the author
as long as i like the synopsis

and then stuck 'em here
in my little library...
i'll show u one of these days

bebong2005 56F

9764 posts
4/10/2008 5:16 am

eb1209

Hello Bebz! I'm a big follower of Edgar Allan Poe too!...I love Prose and Poetry, but the big difference betwen us, is that you're a BOOK WORM

could be true. books are the only ones who can turn me on.
seriously, when i was a freshman in highschool i spent every free time in the library reading edna sint vincent millay, carl sandburg and hemingway. but of course it helps not being popular so i have a lot of time doing those things.
~ Jolielaide

bebong2005 56F

9764 posts
4/10/2008 5:17 am

hi belle

~ Jolielaide

bebong2005 56F

9764 posts
4/10/2008 5:19 am

EAP you read it if you really have time. plop on the sofa with some hot drink, close the blinds and read... have fun

~ Jolielaide

bebong2005 56F

9764 posts
4/10/2008 5:22 am

smiley1957

i swear loyalty to lactacyd feminine

i can't go somewhere without small bottle of it. together with toilet paper and toothbrush, they're the things i could not miss.

~ Jolielaide

bebong2005 56F

9764 posts
4/10/2008 5:23 am

and the library, i can hardly wait sweetface

~ Jolielaide

jane82 110F

4/10/2008 5:47 am

My mental hygiene needs some serious scrubbing in the deep corners, inside and out.

Gran always gave me Austen and Bronte to read before bedtime. I don't understand half of what was written and I thought it was fascinating to read about the unspoken world of adulthood. mmmm Dickens.

I often buy my uncle Stephen Kings novel. It's his favourite too and before I hand it, I take a sneaky peek.