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fictionadventurer · 8 months

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There's nothing quite like the euphoria of finding a book at exactly the right time. A book that you might mildly enjoy or even dislike at another time, but you happen to come across it in just the right mood or mindset, or at just the right age or just the right time of year, so it fits perfectly into your heart and it's elevated into something spectacular.

#books #random thought of the day #at the moment this is about the james whitcomb riley poetry book #it's just an old poetry book #an offhanded impulse library borrow #most of the time it'd be something i set aside after getting home and never actually read #but there's something about it that perfectly captures how i feel when i step outside this time of year #it's almost overwhelming just how unexpectedly strongly i'm reacting to what is fairly basic poetry #but i'm loving the experience #a similar thing happened when reading 'the dean's watch' during advent #it's an excellent book but reading it that time of year made it life-changing #reading lord of the rings during lent made it hit much harder than before #turned it from something i appreciated but didn't particularly like into part of the bedrock of my inner life #and as much as i lament the years i spent not reading gaskell i'm so glad i found wives and daughters when i did #because i might not have appreciated it if i found it earlier

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