{"id":82,"date":"2007-06-18T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-07-02T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T23:38:09","slug":"book-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Book Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just started reading Mother Night. <\/em>One of the first things I noticed is that a previous reader (or readers) marked some of the pages.<\/p>\n

I used to think that marking books was strictly taboo. Then I went to college. There I succumbed to the peer pressure to buy highlighters. I mean, you have<\/em> to highlight your textbooks, right? How else can you prove that you read them? \ud83d\ude09 So I highlighted anything that I thought was important, which was almost everything, and ruined several books that way. It was embarrassing so I gave up the habit. These days, I rarely mark books because I know that my markings could potentially ruin a book and at the same time reveal something of my thought processes (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n

Now, if you feel comfortable marking your own books, I say go for it. But please don’t mark library books. Don’t mar the pages for your own satisfaction at the expense of mine. That is, unless you find a gem, something upon which the majority of future readers will want to stop and ruminate. That I can forgive.<\/p>\n

So, Previous Reader, I forgive you for underlining a line from the introduction:<\/p>\n

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.<\/em><\/p>\n

As for the rest of your markings, all I can say is, what were<\/em> you thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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