Comments on: The missing book years http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/the-missing-book-years/ Surviving is Underrated Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:58:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anne Gibert http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/the-missing-book-years/comment-page-1/#comment-2447 Anne Gibert Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:26:31 +0000 http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/?p=1835#comment-2447 I suppose it might be good to remember every one of life's pleasures, but then, one might have to remember all of life's pain. They say time heals all wounds, and I guess it also blurrs all life's joy. Making impossible demands on yourself at least gives you something to live up to, even if you don't get there. Making ill-considered or irrelevant demands is something else again. I would avoid doing that. I didn't mean to sound so preachy You are indeed charming. That's why I read your blog regularly. I suppose it might be good to remember every one of life’s pleasures, but then, one might have to remember all of life’s pain. They say time heals all wounds, and I guess it also blurrs all life’s joy.

Making impossible demands on yourself at least gives you something to live up to, even if you don’t get there. Making ill-considered or irrelevant demands is something else again. I would avoid doing that.

I didn’t mean to sound so preachy

You are indeed charming. That’s why I read your blog regularly.

]]> By: Julie http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/the-missing-book-years/comment-page-1/#comment-2446 Julie Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:33:04 +0000 http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/?p=1835#comment-2446 It just seems like reading a book should have a tiny bit of impact on my life. Instead, they are just gone. Ziiiiiip. Admittedly, quite a few were romances and I knew at the time they weren't memorable, but still! Having impossible demands of myself is part of my charm! It just seems like reading a book should have a tiny bit of impact on my life. Instead, they are just gone. Ziiiiiip.

Admittedly, quite a few were romances and I knew at the time they weren’t memorable, but still! Having impossible demands of myself is part of my charm!

]]> By: Anne Gibert http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/2009/06/the-missing-book-years/comment-page-1/#comment-2445 Anne Gibert Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:24:04 +0000 http://www.juliecarter.net/blog/?p=1835#comment-2445 Hmmm....Somewhere there must be a point. Oh, yes, how funny that you could even imagine remembering every book you ever read! At 77 it wouldn't even occur to me to try. Every now and then I pick up a Trollope I think I haven't read, get half way through, and realize that I have sometime in the past. Hmmm….Somewhere there must be a point. Oh, yes, how funny that you could even imagine remembering every book you ever read! At 77 it wouldn’t even occur to me to try. Every now and then I pick up a Trollope I think I haven’t read, get half way through, and realize that I have sometime in the past.

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