{"id":224,"date":"2018-01-17T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/17\/books-in-common\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:22:31","slug":"books-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/17\/books-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Books In Common"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I worked with someone new last week and we were doing the usual get-acquainted chat. The “how old are your kids?” and “where do you live?” type thing. Somehow we ended up talking about what we like to do in our spare time. She said she likes to read.\u00a0\u00a0Of course I asked what type of books she enjoys.<\/p>\n

She looked at me with a slightly uncertain expression and said: “You have probably never heard of her but I really like Georgette Heyer.”<\/p>\n

Yes, I know. That was my reaction too.<\/p>\n

What is it about finding you have a similar taste in books that immediately creates a bond with someone? Is it because books are so much a part of who we are? Is it because we hold the stories, the authors, the books close to our hearts? Maybe it is because the books, the authors,\u00a0 are our friends and when others like our friends it makes us happy. Maybe it is because a love of reading is not as common as it used to be so finding someone else who loves books feels like a discovery.<\/p>\n

I can have other things in common with someone and not feel the same bond that is created by a love of books. I have worked with people who have kids the same ages as mine, who like to travel, who watch the same tv shows. All those things are nice but it is the love of books and the interest in similar authors that makes me think “We could be friends.” The other things are an indication of possible compatibility. A love of Georgette Heyer is almost a guarantee.<\/p>\n

I was so thrilled to encounter someone else who had read Heyer that I came home and pulled one of her novels off my shelves. I haven’t read Venetia<\/i> in a long time and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I need to take an inventory of my Heyer novels and find out which ones I need to purchase in order to complete my collection. Plus, a few of them are particularly ugly editions and I wouldn’t mind replacing those. Venetia\u00a0<\/i>is a prime example. It has a stereotypical Regency Romance cover and we all know a Heyer novel is not just a stereotypical Regency Romance. It is witty and clever and well-researched and well, just plain fun.<\/p>\n

Do you have a lot of people in your life with whom you can discuss books? And, of even more importance, how do you feel about Georgette Heyer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I worked with someone new last week and we were doing the usual get-acquainted chat. The “how old are your kids?” and “where do you live?” type thing. Somehow we ended up talking about what we like to do in our spare time. She said she likes to read.\u00a0\u00a0Of course I asked what type of books she enjoys. She looked at me with a slightly uncertain expression and said: “You have probably never heard of her but I really like Georgette Heyer.” Yes, I know. That was my reaction too. What is it about finding you have a similar taste in books that immediately creates a bond with someone? Is it because books are so much a part of who we are? Is it because we hold the stories, the authors, the books close to our hearts? Maybe it is because the books, the authors,\u00a0 are our friends and when others like our friends it makes us happy. Maybe it is because a love of reading is not as common as it used to be so finding someone else who loves books feels like a discovery. I can have other things in common with someone and not feel the same bond that is created by a love of books. I have worked with people who have kids the same ages as mine, who like to travel, who watch the same tv shows. All those things are nice but it is the love of books and the interest in similar authors that makes me think “We could be friends.” The other things are an indication of possible compatibility. A love of Georgette Heyer is almost a guarantee. I was so thrilled to encounter someone else who had read Heyer that I came home and pulled one of her novels off my shelves. I haven’t read Venetia in a long time and I enjoyed it thoroughly. I need to take an inventory of my Heyer novels and find out which ones I need to purchase in order to complete my collection. Plus, a few of them are particularly ugly editions and I wouldn’t mind replacing those. Venetia\u00a0is a prime example. It has a stereotypical Regency Romance cover and we all know a Heyer novel is not just a stereotypical Regency Romance. It is witty and clever and well-researched and well, just plain fun. Do you have a lot of people in your life with whom you can discuss books? And, of even more importance, how do you feel about Georgette Heyer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgette-heyer","category-just-chat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}