One of my favorite things in the world is opening the pages of a fantastic book! I love how when you start a book that you have never read before and you get so into the book that you forget that it is 3 AM, you forget you haven't eaten in hours, you forget that you are simply sitting on your bed. From the comfort of your room you can enter unexplored worlds, travel back in time, meet mythical creatures. There are no cheesy special effects, no poor acting, just your pure imagination where anything can happen. For a few hundred pages, you are someone else, with someone else's problems. (Which I always find so much easier to handle than my own!) The suspense of not knowing what is going to happen. Wanting to know the ending and at the same feeling reluctant for the adventure to end. Then the exhilarated feeling you get when everything is resolved.
When you find a book that excites and opens your mind, beginning the book again is like spending time with an old time friend. The worn pages so familiar, yet new ideas pop into your mind when certain phrases leap out of the pages like they never did before.
It's always amazing to me how a book is able to show you how another person thinks. Whether you agree with the character or not, you can better understand the character's point of view. Reading often reminds me to be more compassionate. So much thinking and feeling goes into the decisions characters make and so very little of that thinking process is ever voiced. There can be a full page of thought process for only two words of dialogue. It is so easy to judge another based on their words and their actions as they appear to us because it is impossible to know all that they are thinking and their motives.
For countless reasons...I love great books!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
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