Do you like reading books about places you've never been?
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Re: Do you like reading books about places you've never been
Exactly!Kelebogile Mbangi wrote:Isnt that a part of why we read books? To visit places we've never been, experience feelings we've never felt, meet people we've never met - All through our minds eye.
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I find that visiting a place is not like reading about it. Each place I've visited seem to have its own sense about it – its own spirit that can never be found anywhere else. How does one find words that can impart that experience onto the reader?
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I love day dreaming on a normal day, so I get comfortable imagining events and places in novels/books. It's one of my personality traits as a Virgo.?
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One of my favorite places for books to be set is South Africa.
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Reading books of places I've never been will give me a chance to familiarize myself with it like knowing their culture, traditions, what beautiful places to see if I happen to be in that place one day. It's just good to know what to expect.
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One of the things I loved about this book was the representation on how people bring their culture with them when they move. I had no idea that dowries were still an active tradition or how they worked. It was very nice to see that even in a city renown for its sins that a traditional family could footing without falling to the cliche of a "Vegas story."
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