Reading

I started a new book while I was home sick and haven’t been able to put it down. Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos is a follow up to her novel Loved Walked In. It’s been three years since I read the first novel and the story came back to me almost instantly. I love when a good book can capture your mind and soul as if you were a living character in the story. Her words read like poetry and I get swept away instantly. I love to read and can get lost in a book for hours on end while the world passes around me.

Tuesday evening I took my son to the library so he could pick out a book to read this week. After a frustrating hour of walking up and down the junior aisles lost in a sea of books, he picked a collaboration of short stories. On our way home I tried to explain to him why I wanted him to pick a novel. The character development, setting, plot, climax, theme…being able to comprehend what he reads and to see the story unfolding in his mind as he reads. I told him that when I read I become a silent character. I don’t just read a book, I see the words dance on the page and imagine that I’m there in that little town walking down the street with the raining hitting me in the face. I smile, I laugh, I cry, and I shake my head in disbelief. I get completely and utterly lost in each and every book I read but I love it! It’s like going on a vacation and seeing a whole new world! That’s what I want for my son, I want him to be able to get lost in a book so much so that he remembers it for the rest of his life…not just the story but how he felt when he read it.