How often do you talk about books?

Bluraven said:

...and my Mom tends to view fiction as "useless"

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Does she know the vast amounts of knowledge throughout history that has been irretrievably lost due to that kind of mindset?

"my Mom tends to view fiction as "useless"...ah! the times I've tried to convert her to Fictionalism!! "

I don't get to talk about books with people face to face all that much. Start talking about books and I get funny looks from some of the people I know. I think the last time I had a decent conversation with someone about books in the flesh, was with one of my therapists...

(just wanted to say to CDA that I've also got The Oxford Book of English Verse, and I've been perusing it lately too!! LOL)

CDA said:

I don't get to talk about books with people face to face all that much. Start talking about books and I get funny looks from some of the people I know. I think the last time I had a decent conversation with someone about books in the flesh, was with one of my therapists...

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LOL-I know what you mean. My most recent experience involved eating in the lounge and an english instructor telling us about Anna Quindlin's book Black and Blue. I then began having a conversation with her about Quindlin and her articles in Newsweek. It felt odd because no one was adding anything and appeared to have no clue who in the world she was-and I was sitting around teachers!. *sigh*

I talk about books pretty much every day with my wife (we're both big readers), and often with other people as well. Once I got into a nice Harry Potter-related conversation in the ladies' room at a rest stop, only afterwards realizing it was sparked by my Gryffindor Quidditch T-shirt.