(no subject)

[csberry]

peteydaddy posted this great quote from C.S. Lewis:

"To enjoy a book... I find I have to treat it as a sort of hobby and set about it seriously. I begin by making a map on one of the end leafs; then I put in a genealogical tree or two; then I put a running headline at the top of each page; finally I index at the end all the passages I have for some reason underlined. I often wonder -- considering how people enjoy themselves developing photos or making scrapbooks -- why so few people make a hobby of their reading in this way. Many an otherwise dull book which I had to read have I enjoyed in this way, with a fine-nibbed pen in my hand: one is making something all the time, and a book so read acquires the charm of a toy without losing that of a book."

Now, I'm anal retentive...but I don't know if I could quite do this to the extent Lewis suggests. I LOVE the idea of doing it when I go through some of my "research" books (I miss school so much that I occasionally actually give myself research papers to write though I usually do the research, take notes, and then only jot down thoughts for the paper...yeah, I'm a freak).