Paying it Forward (#PIF) - How much do you Love Books? Contest ed 6 (Delegations, HBI & tokens)

• Bonding with books started when someone else read short stories for me not only at bedtime but also whenever I requested him, hehe they were my brothers. I had a desire that when I will be reading the same with that pride and one day it happened my first book which I remembered was Taleem O Tarbit ( having the short stories, fun,quizzes etc( for quizzes I was scolded many times as I don't know the answer but in later I realized the answer was written on the last page in small font 😂🤫) So this book was my first attraction toward reading.
  my attraction was the library at my home but later. I remembered I received the book on my birthday and I wept that Dad is only filling his library. Give me chocolates instead 😂 (first wrong deal of my life😒😂)
• 3 books from childhood(Ayesha brainstorm there would be something else apart from mischief and fun😁) Allah din, Bachon ki kahaniyan (stories for kids) and I don't exactly remember but it was the book containing poems for the kids. I would replace it with Ramsha 007 ( the book about the achievement of a girl who used her brain and tricks for solving each mystery case 😂 childhood mystery cases be like finding the missing thing, knowing the hacks to fetch food from the fridge, showing fake magical tricks to impress the colony kids 😂)
• Adult age I am not going to devote it to reading the stories for kids 😁 investing all of my effort (all means my days in reading and nights in imaginations 😁) in reading books by Nimra Ahmad who is one of my favorite authors her books Jannat k patty is stilled pinned in my reading list.. Bano Qudsia mam who has the proficiency in relating the real-life stories along with religion and society.Her book Raja Gidh is the way behind the storybook, characters from daily life pronounce the reality. And last but not least Zawiya by Ishfaq Ahmad. He remained always on the top of my list. I love to reread his books because there is much depth in his writings.In my first attempt, these were like stories but later I realized the spirituality, relation with life and social affinity they are having.
• I guess @amberkashif can relate in a better way with all these book love 😁
  @preets come dear and show us how the Indo Pak culture in book reading is related.
  @dlmmqb can you relate your experience here 😁
  @merit.ahama , @brightdavid I knew you guys would be having some best memories with books.
  @samsmith1971 this question moved me back into my memories and my day been started with these flashback memories hehe

I don't do much book reading but I do remember reading the goosebumb books. It was the Holloween Mask one that got me hooked on reading a few of them in a row.

Authors

• R.L. Stine
• Dr.Seuss (Yes I'm seriously listing the good DR.)
• Stan Berenstain

Books

• The Haunted Mask
• Night Of The Living Dummy
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

I'm sure many know but if you don't there is a debate about the spelling of berenstein vs berenstain. Some claim its a glitch in the matrix, google Mandela Effect to learn more.

Disclaimer: Since the competition is almost over I won't be tagging three others as they likely won't make it in time. Some dead account tags so I'm following the rules. @starterset @sm-rules @sm-rocks. Its ok if my entry don't count. Cool giveaway, !BEER !LOLZ !LUV !PIZZA.

Hey, we are back again, yayyyy, let me get into these questions.

Tell us about one of the pivotal moments that cemented your love for reading. Was it a person, a place, a specific book, or a story?

Pivotal moment that cemented my love for reading wasn't a place or a book, it was a feeling, books always made me feel safe at the point when I started reading them, and for an introverted shy girl, I loved that feeling.

What are your top 3 books from your childhood and tell us about your social affinity to one of your faves; how it found a place in your heart.

Top three favorite books from childhood are;
-why you act the way you do by Tim Lahaye
-Rules of life by Richard Templar
-Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe

I'll say the one that has my heart forever is "why you act the way you do".

The reason is because my love for psychology and studying people came from this book.

Share with us 3 of your favorite authors and titles that you have read as an adult, where you either had to acquire your own copy for your personal library or would go back and reread for the sheer joy and experience of it.

1. James Bradley chase
2. Emotional intelligence by Daniel goleman
3. The prayer of Jabez by Darlene Wilkinson

I have more but if I started writing we might not leave here 😆

Anyways I will be tagging @stevenson7 @deraaa and @piratethanos to participate in this.

1.Tell us about one of the pivotal moments that cemented your love for reading. Was it a person, a place, a specific book, or a story?.

Frankly my love for reading came from deep within. I love how I could get lost in pages and come back with a different perspective on how things should be.

2.What are your top 3 books from your childhood and tell us about your social affinity to one of your faves; how it found a place in your heart.

Hmm? From childhood i only read novels. I really don't remember most of the books from childhood but that I remember is...

1.Bringing the Nation's Husband Home by Ye fei Ye
2.The Power of your mind by Chris Oyakhilome
3.Hidden Marriage by Jiong Yao

Hidden Marriage is definitely my Fave. I would read it again even though it's 2,000+ pages long. Ning Xi is just...a total wonder and you'd get lost in how she totally busted her foes. Also, Lu Tingxiao would make a woman swoon...🤦

3.Share with us 3 of your favorite authors and titles that you have read as an adult, where you either had to acquire your own copy for your personal library or would go back and reread for the sheer joy and experience of it.

1.Brian Tracy– Excuses: The power of self discipline
2.Joseph Murphy– The Power of your Subconscious mind
3.Carol Dweck– The New Psychology of Success

See the third, I've read that book twice and would do it again. That book just fuels my passion to learn some more because there's always room for more. Carol Dweck's book taps into your toddling mind and tunes you to understand certain things and the way they work. I have the E-copy and the rest is hard copy. Couldn't get the hard copy of that one. I prefer reading in the four walls of my home.

4.Tag 3 people who you think might enjoy coming along to play with us (if one of them is a new Hiver, you get an extra entry in the draw!)

@eflevour1, @estherscott and @jaydr join the fun...

1) Tell us about one of the pivotal moments that cemented your love for reading. Was it a person, a place, a specific book, or a story?

When I was a kid (8 - 11?), I remember there used to be a series of stories (books) published in my native language, Titled "The five adventurers" by "Mahmoud Salim". They were about 5 kids that went onto some dangerous adventures, solving mysteries and crimes and getting in troubles along the way.
I believe that series, which had hundreds of stories was what captured me and sparked my interest in reading.

The magical worlds that are created in ones mind, detaching them from their reality and their surroundings, traveling in thoughts and expanding their experiences, was just something I fell in love with.

2) What are your top 3 books from your childhood and tell us about your social affinity to one of your faves; how it found a place in your heart.

This is somewhat related to the previous question. I don't remember specific ones, but after that series I started reading "Agatha Christie", and I don't recall what else.

I mentioned above how it found a place in my heart, but I can expand on that by saying. I loved the problem and mystery solving aspect of it, the critical thinking of the main character even during stressful times. It probably had an impact on me.

3) Share with us 3 of your favorite authors and titles that you have read as an adult, where you either had to acquire your own copy for your personal library or would go back and reread for the sheer joy and experience of it.

I will list a few, not necessarily "the" favorite, and without any specific order!

Samarkand - by Amin Maalouf
Children of Gebelawi - by Naguib Mahfouz
1984, and Animal farm - by George Orwell
Crime and punishment - by Fyodor Dostoevsky

4) Tag 3 people who you think might enjoy coming along to play with us (if one of them is a new Hiver, you get an extra entry in the draw!)

@kaelci
@khoola
@b0s
@samsmith1971 😁

Option 3

"The profoundest distances are never geographical." ~ John Fowles

"That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good." ~ John Fowles

The Magus

Source

John Fowles spun me in delirious circles of emotional turmoil. ❤️💕❤️
The first book I read of his was The French Lieutenant’s Woman. I proceeded to devour everything and anything he’d ever written, with The Magus emerging as one of my all time favorite books.

My pattern is very linear, I discover an author then read absolutely everything they’ve ever written. Most recently, my new idol is Maggie Shipstead. I have read two of her books in the past two weeks. Excellent, hilariously funny accounts of life, family and the times we live in. Charmingly engaging characters, which I’m missing already - they were that REAL.

Apart from these, there’s Khaled Hosseini whose lyrical works captivated me entirely. (oh dear there are so many. Are we only allowed to name three???🤔💭❤️💕 because there’s Huxley, Heller, Kundera and Ondaatje)

That’s my list. But you’re terribly unfair to only allow THREE 😍😆
PS: edited to include invitations (sorry)
@ifarmgirl
@consciouscat
@smilestitches

Any pivotal moment about books .... aaaaaah! I think I am born with a thirst to read. There was no need of any special place or person to develop the love of reading. As far i can go in the memory lane I found a small girl wanting to read everything available in her hands be it a broken piece of news paper or the textbooks having some stories. I remember whenever the academic year progressed, I not only read my books but also of my brother's (who was 3 academic classes a head of me.)

There was nothing like library or collection of books or magazines around, I just collected whatever and wherever I found something, like I took kid's magazines from my aunt and uncle, ladies digest from my cousin. I read them and then returned carefully. I was 9 years old when my grandfather died. In his stuff, a book came out with title Qasassul Anbia (Stories of Prophet. It was a really thick book especially for a kid. If I remember right, it was comprising of 1500 pages with very small text. It had the stories of all the major prophets right from prophet Adam to Prophet Muhammad. And the book was not meant for adults. I read it completely. It took me more than an year to read it. I used to read a few pages every day.

When I grew up, my habits remained same, I read whatever was available and then the college days came where I used to borrow books from friends. I read some novels those days. One of them was Peer- e- Kamil by Nimra Ahmed.
There are many other books I can name but to keep the list to 3 I would name those that made a real impact on my personality Zindagi se lutf Uthaye (Enjoy your life) by Dr. Muhammad Andurrehman al areefi. This book was gifted to me by a friend as a gift to my marriage. It is the best gift I got.
In this book the stories from the life of Prophet Muhammad has been narrated which are teaching the lesson of patience, kindness, affection, acceptance, openess, respect to difference of opinion and much more.
The other book that has a lot to do in my life is Zavia by Ashfaq Ahmed. I read it in pdf form after downloading. This book helped me combat the darkest phase of my life. It was the time when I was clinically depressed. I was not finding any hopes around. This very book helped me clean my soul from the filth and dirt. It helped me appreciate the positivity around me.

I think @iskafan would be interested in apeaking about her experiences. @khaleesi is another book lover. @femcy-willcy would you like to participate??

getting involved and supporting the contest as a one-off for Christmas

A one-off? Who told you that? 😎

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1. Somehow the book "Its a Kind of Funny Story" jumped out to me back in my late teens. It was the first book I read cover to cover since I was really young. That decision and that book kicked it all up again for me and reading. What I learned... reading is too intense? Make it easy for yourself and read something you can relate to/get lost in. It's a skill after all, set your own pace.

2. Maybe I answered this one partially with answer 1, lol! I don't really have 3 favourites from childhood, like I said, I wasn't much of a reader. If I had to list off 3 books I keep close now, they would be: Kon Tiki, Tao of Wu, Poor Charlies Almanack.

3. My all-time favourite is Irvine Welsh. He has some remarkable books and the grittiness and realism (especially those with more localised dialect) add something to the immersion that gets me every time. One of my favourites by him is Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (pretty sure that's what it's called). His short stories like Maribou Stork Nightmares and collections like Filth, Crime, etc, and the Trainspotting series are all top-rate as well.

4. I'm going to be wise with my choices here! I'm thinking about @aiuna's new initiative VYB-ACT and how I have the opportunity to guide my week with this one.

@flamistan (dogs can read, right?), @thomashnblum, @nonameslefttouse

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend Sam! 😀

1. I didn't have a special moment that cemented my love of reading - from my earliest childhood, as far back as I can remember, I always loved to read... I read so much that my parents even forbade me, I had to read at night under the covers, with a flashlight.)

2. I find it difficult to name 3 separate books from my childhood, which influenced me the most, it is easier to name several authors - Jules Verne, Jack London, Mark Twain. I have always had a great desire for adventure and travel, which unfortunately I have not been able to realize in my life.

3. I read a lot of different things in my adulthood, but still most often dominated by existentialist authors (Kafka, Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, W. Frankl), and Ernest Hemingway.

I invite participation @aiuna , @creativemary, @nazavzhdy)

Hi, @samsmith1971! Nice to participate again in your contests. Here are my answers:

1. I especially remember a moment that marked me as a reader. I was not so young, I was about ten years old. I was reading The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. Towards the end of the book there is the following passage:
   "And you are going away, and will not come back any more?"
   "Yes," he said. "We have comraded long together, and it has been pleasant--pleasant for both; but I must go now, and we shall not see each other any more."
   "In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely?"
   Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, "There is no other."
   Today this fragment is not particularly interesting to me. But I remember that at that moment I closed the book, dejected. And I was several days without being able to open it again. I think at that moment I learned that books can not only amuse you, teach you about a subject, make you pass the time, but they can also throw you into an abyss, hit you, disrupt your life forever. Then reading was no longer the same, there is a risk in reading, and from that moment on I knew it.
2. To answer this question I will go further back in time, to what I consider my childhood readings. I remember storybooks, such as those of the Brothers Grimm. I also remember Claude Voilier's Famous Five series. And a book by María Elena Walsh, The English Devil. María Elena Walsh, without a doubt, was my great childhood influence, especially with her songs, authentic works of surrealism for children.
3. A difficult answer, sorry to everyone I'm leaving out (although I don't think they care). Three books come to mind. One, James Joyce's Ulysses. I read it every summer, when I was young and had plenty of time. Yes, I know, it's weird to read Ulysses every year. I guess I was weird back then, but now I'm perfectly normal.... The second book is Alcools, by Apollinaire, especially the poem "Zone", which I recited by heart in Spanish and French (I eventually forgot it). The third book is Eliot's The Waste Land, which opened my poetic world, then very French, to other kinds of poetry.
4. I am going to invite three friends: @gislandpoetic, @josemalavem and @jesuspsoto.

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