tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14945452.post5506394373851941322..comments2024-01-16T12:21:07.498-05:00Comments on Jane's Journey: ReadingJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657703172332398915noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14945452.post-83896381349440986072010-06-13T07:05:15.743-05:002010-06-13T07:05:15.743-05:00Ha! I don't know about book murder, but I dou...Ha! I don't know about book murder, but I doubt anybody can beat me when it comes to reckless book endangerment. <br />In my old apartment, the stove was one of those flat-top things. My usual morning routine was to eat breakfast, then spend a couple minutes with a book and a cup of tea. So one day (maybe the postage-stamp sized countertop was covered in clean dishes I hadn't put away yet) I set my library book on one corner of the stove, and the teakettle on the other. A few minutes later, I smelled something funny...Aughh! The heat was on under the book rather than the kettle.<br />I went to the library to offer to pay for the ruined book, and the sweet librarian told me to bring it back anyway. "Oh, we get that kind of thing all the time. Usually it's not nearly as bad as you think." She didn't get it at all. The whole last CHAPTER was scorched and illegible, and the plastic-coated back cover was all melty and blackened.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17156423974518198915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14945452.post-46514040182022256772010-06-09T20:17:28.202-05:002010-06-09T20:17:28.202-05:00Yikes! I thought you were joking in your title - ...Yikes! I thought you were joking in your title - but graphic was the perfect word for what I read - "like skinning a deer???" I've never sliced a book into parts but I did destroy a library book once while camping in a leaky tent - the water made it swell up to more than three times its size. I had to buy the library a new copy even though the librarian kindly offered to take it back (she had not seen the distorted volume or she would never have offered.) And for a while (I think when I was the mother of two young children) a real treat to was take a bubble bath and read a novel - no kids allowed. I slipped a couple times, dunking my books, and that was the end of bathtub reading.Yesterday's Blessinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15990576025465474575noreply@blogger.com