Books ... and Their Additions

I'm currently reading this book, and really enjoying it actually.  I picked it up from the charity book table in Booths sometime last year and just popped it onto the cookbook shelf in the kitchen ... and promptly forgot all about it.

Now, the downside to having books as the colourful decorations in my small home instead of ornaments or knick-knacks, is that occasionally I become 'blind' to their existence as individuals.  They even occasionally get dusted instead of read, if of course I ever get around to dusting. 😄

 

Anyway after reading my way through another cookbook over the weekend, I decided this morning to carry on in the same vein and spotted this one, with it's glorious green coloured spine jumping out at me.  This is the page I am up to, and for the second time I have come across a lot of orange highlighting.  

Years ago this would have really bugged me, now I really love it and I mean really love it. 

It shows that someone before me went through this book seriously absorbing what the words say and perhaps relating it to something they either wanted to implement into their life, or maybe something that helped with studying or their research into food and nutrition.  It means that someone cared about the words.

It's like finding an old family recipe book with annotations in the margins for better additions to the recipe, or saying how much the family loved it, or perhaps didn't.  It brings the flat written words to life by showing that they touched on someone's life in some way.

Words are important. Books are important.  We are important.

Sue xx