Browsing articles from "March, 2011"

In Our Own Little World

Mar 30, 2011   //   by Steve Wooding   //   A Slice of Lemon, Articles  //  1 Comment

IN SHORT: Our visits to other people’s worlds give us a chance to grown and expand our own, so why on earth wouldn’t you want to take a trip like that..?!

“Being comfortable isn’t the way to learn to expand your abilities.”

[Thomas Perry, US author]

(1180 words, approx. 7-11 mins to read)

My wonderful wife recently bought me a Kindle – an e-reader that I can carry a whole library’s worth of books around on in a device around the size of a large paperback but the thickness of a pencil.

To start with I set about finding as many freebie books as I could and, as some of you may know, many older books are now out of copyright and electronic versions are pretty easy to find. One of the many books I downloaded, which I’m sightly ashamed to say I’d never read before, was Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”.
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