The Biblomaniac Army (booklovers, UNITE!) v.2

[Hobbit]

What Dexter's Girl said reminds me: I'm trying in vain to write a kind of (uhm not quite essay, but I don't know what else to call it) about the effect of media on people's perception of introverts, resulting in a need to "rescue" them. Oi,that sounds crazy. I don't know how else to say it. What I'm looking for at the moment are books and also movies that present readers as people who are unable to make friends, and therefore must read books to feel like they have friends. I mean, I understand the idea of saying one's best friends are fictional characters, but obviously that doesn't mean we can't have relationships with non-fictional people too. Does anyone know of any books/movies that present this idea?
(I keep reading that and I think I really do sound like I've gone off my rocker.)

Anyways, yeah, showing them the cover works for physical books; most of the time I read on my nook, so that doesn't work.
I suppose reading on nook would require a card that also says:

No, it's not an ipad. It's a nook, Barnes and Nobles version of a Kindle. I like it a lot. It's barely different than a book, except the absence of page scent and feel.

I'm constantly asked the same questions: what are you reading/who is the author? Is it good?
If it's on my nook: Is that a ipad? What's a nook? Is it different than a book?

[glassea]

{ @hobbit: Can I assume you've read Quiet?

Other than that, A Mango-Shaped Space pops to mind. I think that the main character does kind of exemplify this although it's not the main point of the book.

[Hobbit]

I'm afraid I've never heard of either one of those. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain came up on a google search. Is that the book you're referring to? I found A Mango-Shaped space easily, it sounds fascinating, thanks for the suggestion.

[Diaval]

Read Yellowfang's Secret in three hours. Great book.

[Diaval]

I'm afraid I've never heard of either one of those. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain came up on a google search. Is that the book you're referring to? I found A Mango-Shaped space easily, it sounds fascinating, thanks for the suggestion.

You should definitely read A Mango Shaped Space. ❤

[glassea]

{ @hobbit: Yes, I meant the one by Mrs. Cain ^^ It's nonfiction so I don't know if that's what you read most often, but it does have quite a few real-life examples of what you're looking for.

[The Growling Wolf]

A rather like the sound of A Mango Shaped Space, I read the 1st 8 pages on amazon and liked it alot. i'm going into town tammorow, so will porbbaly head back with alot of books!

[Mistress Shadow.]

A rather like the sound of A Mango Shaped Space, I read the 1st 8 pages on amazon and liked it a lot. I'm going into town tomorrow, so will probably head back with a lot of books!

❥My friend read it at the beginning of the year, and she said she liked it a lot. I'll probably read it after I finish Watership Down ^^

Speaking of which, I find it quite a lovely book! I love the characters and the whole plot of the story, it's really brilliantly written. This reading assignment it turning out better then I thought it would .u.

Shadow♫

[Lady Ligeia]

I keep getting Barnes&Nobel ads on CS on books that I've talked about on here, similar ones, and ones my mother bought for me for Christmas online. Weird.

[Roonil Wazlib]

I keep getting Barnes&Nobel ads on CS on books that I've talked about on here, similar ones, and ones my mother bought for me for Christmas online. Weird.

Yeah, Google scans the pages you're on and shows you relevant ads.