Reply #7: might be. I love books, love reading, and like to have

[Flaxbee]

a few lined up ready to go. I've always read, pre-preschool I was reading and my teachers used me almost as their teacher's aid, telling me to teach kids to sound out words when I was 5 years old and read along with them. My mom was the same way, reading all the time.

When I was working in DC in a very high-stress job, the only thing that would give me some peace of mind was to read John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey on the commute to and from work. (I was a laywer in a firm full of uber-type A personalities and it was exhausting and almost terrorizing). Rumpole is a low key barrister who makes constant fun of judges, fellow barristers, etc. I think the character helped me keep my sanity by NOT being caught up in the frenzy of that particular firm's practice, to see the humor in my situation.

It would be interesting to study the "need" for books. I'm pretty well adjusted, can be very social, put others at ease, outgoing - not necessarily introverted so I don't necessarily subscribe to the 'bookworm' theories, but I carry a book with me everywhere. I have a big handbag, nice and roomy for almost any size book. ;-)