Book Lovers

As the site name suggests, this site is for book lovers the world over. If you love books we are sure that you will enjoy this site. We will be constantly adding new books and reviews. Please feel free to leave any comments as long as they are relevant to the book mentioned.

Why Do People Love to Read?

People read for many different reasons. Some people read because it is necessary, like eating and breathing. Some people only read practical books – to advance their careers or knowledge on a particular subject. Or because they  like to learn something factual, meaningful, or real whether  it be a biography, or  a popular title on any science subject, religion, –or such.

But for those of us who really, really adore to read – why is that? A book takes away our time and space limitations.  We can visit the future, or the past, travel to exotic locations, or imagine what it is to be a smuggler, a tycoon, a soldier or a nun or monk.

Escape has something to do with it.  Even if you lead a fantastic life, sometimes it is nice to take a break from it and inhabit a different one.  And if you’re going through a bad time, it’s sometimes comforting to read people who have had similar experiences and how they coped.

Books are the gateway to many worlds of thought and deeds. As Channing once wrote in his Essay on Self Culture:

“God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling; if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof,—if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise; and Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart; and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom,—I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.”