Chris’s Comments (group member since Nov 12, 2011)

Chris’s comments from the Great reference book reading group.

My 'I Ching" is the only other of my books that fell apart from use. Now lovingly repaired.

Maybe its a fetish but i love to see those signs of wear and tear on a book I have gone back to many times. One of my most used was "The Iron Man" by Ted Hughes. which i have taken on the road with me as an itinerant music teacher. Like so many Faber books fell apart too easily and I had to throw it away in the end. By which time i had memorised the story well enough to recite it unaided: much more effective of course.