TBRs and being "Real"

My reading slump has continued but I am slowly getting through the books I have listed under "Currently Reading"here on this blog, though at a nearly comatose pace. I am a the point where I need to take notes or I will forget the characters. Or worse yet, the plot! However, I am working it.

My sweet husband, knowing the terrible slump I've been in decided to give me a book. It came in on a day I was very stressed and I sat down with it (after giving him the biggest hug.)  It's a very yellowed paged paperback called Bag Balm and Duct Tape by Beach Conger, M.D. What a great story! I am now reading four books at one time. This book stands out, not only because my H gave it to me, but I love to read about old fashioned medicine practiced  in a rural area, non fiction. Can't wait to get back into it today. I will be sure to review it. 

The other book I placed on that "I have started you and will never leave you" list, is my Herman Koch book:

After reading the first bit of this (about a doctor, of course) I knew it was going to be a straight up favorite, though his last book gave me many uneasy strange feels, this one will probably do the same but I just can't seem to stay away from Herman. I just can't. His writing is completely spot on with every tiny nugget he writes.  I won't leave him or his books. Ever.

Lastly, we were all yapping about The Velveteen Rabbit on Facebook (my wall, not the group) and what memories people have of this wonderfully written sweet story about being "Real." 

 My mom gave this to me long ago and wrote to me in the inner flap of the book. She wrote beautiful words about being "Real." Her love for reading and understanding the concepts that I took to heart mind and soul was the foundation of my life. She unlocked the world of being Real for me.

I do believe that this  book should be given to every child,with a note about being "Real" from you! They will carry your words and this book with them forever.
I sure did. Thanks, Mom! 

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

 “Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit