Book Booster Spotlight
Around four years ago when I began this blog I set up a page dedicated to collecting Book Boosters. The qualifications were fairly simple:
Do you love books?
Do you have favorites you read, recommend, and even re-read?
Are you a frequent flyer at the local library?
Are you an on-line regular of book sites, be they promoting to buy, review, or boast books?
Perchance you operate on a need to read basis–you have to have a book in hand, by the bed, stashed in the car, or have one nestled in the backpack.
You then, my friend, are a Book Booster. And you are in good company. Add your name to the list and welcome to the shelf of those who appreciate and advance the cause of books.
To date there are around 70 Book Boosters. There are no secret handshakes, no monthly meetings. I have considered t-shirts and bumper stickers. As a thanks for taking the public step as a proclaimed bibliophile, I shall spotlight a random Book Booster.
This month’s BB Spotlight is:
Tish Farrell
In her own words:
Being a writer can be wretched. (What did Douglas Adams say about it: staring at the page until your eyes bleed?) So in an attempt to stop my eyes bleeding, or my brain exploding I thought I would use this blog to write about the place where I am now (Shropshire) and the places where I used to be (Kenya). Sometimes they get mixed up together. But that doesn’t matter. Anyway, the literary analysts tell us that creating a convincing setting, that telling sense of place through which the human action threads and is revealed is crucial to any story – non fiction or fiction. So these are my practice pieces, then; a fending off of writer’s block perhaps. Who knows? Other stories might spring from them.
Tish also provides amazing photos. I especially appreciate her Kenya shares, as I doubt I will ever make that journey.
Are you interested in proclaiming your love of books, your need to read? Leave your name and I will gladly add you to the growing list of Book Boosters, and who knows you too might find yourself as a featured BB Spotlight in the near future.
Pam Webb 
My wish is for more time to read. I have books suggested to me, some on my shelf, and can never find time to read them.
Finding time to read is a need for me. Sometimes it supersedes my need for dark chocolate.
Cricket Muse, you are a star. Thank you for featuring my work. I really do appreciate it.
You are welcome–I’m a long time admirer of your work!
I don’t get bleeding eyes, but once in a while I’ll get rising bile.
Is the reading material vile hence the bile or is it you read so much you make yourself ill?
The bile rises in direct proportion to the height of the rejection pile.
Of books you are writing or reading? The former then,is of more decided grief than the latter.
Oh, writing.
Reading books — even bad books — never makes my bile rise.