Keth's Book Collection 2020

I love reading. In a word, it's an education and a sort of meditation, if you will. But also a window to worlds....and many times a 'guest pass' into the lives of so many...both real and quite literally and figuratively, unreal.
I hope by posting this video of 'most' of my books it perhaps inspires others to read, or read a little more. Most of the books here I've read in the last ten years...but there's so much more to read, and (magically) to read 'again'.
As regards 'what type of books do I read?'....in the words of Oscar Wilde 'To define is to limit', therefore, as long as the book is good, interesting, enhancing, maybe even mind blowing (I could mention so many books here using the latter word), then it will be on my list, and in time in my hands.
Of course, that's not to say that sometimes one might choose the wrong book, or heavens forbid, a complete turkey, as in something you thought might appeal to you, but which was either (seemingly) beyond your ability and experience at the least, or just plainly bad writing at the worst. In the former case, I always try to proceed and endure...and stretch my brain, giving it a good workout. The human brain appreciates a workout, and reticence to apply oneself is only one's brain trying to protect itself from that which it is unfamiliar with - which is where training your brain 'not to be afraid, intimidated or cowed into submission' comes into play. one is what one eats. Ergo: One is what one reads. And more so perhaps.
To those who' choose' not to read....I implore you to think again and perhaps tentatively embrace this most beautiful of human experiences. Read at your leisure, and in doing so you will retrain your brain minute by minute and page by page .Befriending patience and endeavoring to return to and reopen where you last left off, and to read some more, and incrementally then you open yourself to the world - and so many worlds open to you! Once accustomed to it, you will only want more. The subject and excitement of any good story or subject within a book is of course, perhaps, the main gain, but besides this there is the added bonus and most relaxing and rewarding feeling that one is with a friend that through the very mechanism of reading 'print', that one may find a refuge from the roar of the world....and for some moments of peaceful solitude, be blissfully 'one' with something very natural, endearing and rewarding.
And when you turn that final page....know that you deserve that moment of bliss and self fulfillment in finishing that book, be it one hundred or one thousand pages or more that you have sat, laughed, intrigued, cried or disputed through. That's the thing about reading; it's a partnership and a contract of sorts between the book and you. It's not served up to you in two hours or over a box set, nor is it dictated to you audibly as you hoover the house or wot not. In its simple demands and specifications comes a nirvana and a wealth the like of which no other media comes close.
If you've never read a book, but have read these few lines, then perhaps you should read some more....and if 'at first' you don't enjoy...try to endure.
Btw, if watching my video is the only thing you do, then thanks for that.
Keth