tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post8066817218020655119..comments2024-03-24T15:26:36.890+10:00Comments on Paper Ponderings: Thursday Thoughts...Fiona Dempsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-15265436216895511152013-12-24T10:31:58.268+10:002013-12-24T10:31:58.268+10:00Thanks Margaret, I join you in your cheer!Thanks Margaret, I join you in your cheer!Fiona Dempsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-85554357325555387242013-12-21T20:15:18.840+10:002013-12-21T20:15:18.840+10:00It can never be said often enough - hurrah for rea...It can never be said often enough - hurrah for reading, hurrah for books, long may they give pleasure! "A house without books is like a room without windows."Margaret Cooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08529035740804527176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-9456639033839700202013-12-21T09:01:50.557+10:002013-12-21T09:01:50.557+10:00So good to have both perspectives in your life isn...So good to have both perspectives in your life isn't it Charlton? I think I took it for granted for a very long time...Fiona Dempsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-48498459263496183522013-12-21T09:01:10.404+10:002013-12-21T09:01:10.404+10:00Reading is a great companion Olga isn't it? An...Reading is a great companion Olga isn't it? And as an adult I am a bit baffled by how it happens I must say! how those black marks convert into sound and signs and a language...Fiona Dempsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-87470458056713413012013-12-21T09:00:01.841+10:002013-12-21T09:00:01.841+10:00Absolutely Ronnie, it truly is a miracle it happen...Absolutely Ronnie, it truly is a miracle it happens I think...but I a grateful that it did for me.Fiona Dempsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-11460655849780789602013-12-20T06:07:54.121+10:002013-12-20T06:07:54.121+10:00I am a reader too - with great and continuing plea...I am a reader too - with great and continuing pleasure - and count myself so lucky to take delight in wonderful language and to have the open door to other worlds and wonderful opportunities. <br />As I spent 25 years of my working life teaching children who found great difficulty in learning, I know too how painful reading can be for some. Only some of the children I helped went on to read with real pleasure which I am sad about but almost all gained enough skill to regard the task without overriding fear. So, for me, reading holds two sorts of pleasure, my own personal enjoyment and that of seeing others gain a skill they thought they would never master.<br />Charlton Stitcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03052815242463837033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-41279435974105474742013-12-19T21:41:15.333+10:002013-12-19T21:41:15.333+10:00Yes, such an elegant and yet so rough and ready an...Yes, such an elegant and yet so rough and ready an R.<br />I so agree that reading provides a door to so many experiences and enlightenments. I also cannot remember that eureka moment when everything was clear, but like you cannot remember not being able to read. To me reading was second only to breathing when I was growing up.Olga Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-34087083135519492572013-12-19T17:46:43.400+10:002013-12-19T17:46:43.400+10:00I used to take the act of reading for granted --- ...I used to take the act of reading for granted --- it came so easy to me and I can't remember the time BEFORE I could read.... BUT my son's immense struggle with reading has brought home to me that books aren't regarded as friends by everyone..... just as my recent research project reminded me that widespread literacy is a very recent phenomenon.... so now I know that the skill, the act of reading should not be glibly taken for granted.....ronniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02260679591630131813noreply@blogger.com