Books

I am a reader. If I don't have a book handy I feel incomplete. My mom is a reader, she passed the love of reading to her four children. I got my very own library card for my fifth birthday. This past summer I bought myself an e-reader. One of the best things that I have ever bought.

I read for enjoyment. Mostly fiction, I have read some non-fiction but enjoy fiction better. I don't like to have to think about what I read either. I have tried to read Anna Karenina but couldn't make it past the first couple of chapters. It took me two tries to read Gone with the Wind and somewhere in my house is a copy of Scarlett but I haven't made it through that either. Maybe it's the size, maybe it has too may details.


When I was a kid read the Nancy Drew books and the Bobbsy Twin books. I loved the Little House on the Prairie books. One of the biggest thrills of childhood was going to Mansfield, MO to actually see where the books were written. (I got the chance to see the Little House on the Prairie when I was an adult!) Mom never backed away from allowing me to read books. I read the Thorn Birds when I was in elementary school, I felt so grown up. I was not allowed to read any book that was below my reading level. (No romance novels!)

I like to read because it stretches my imagination. I have just gone through a battle at the Ministry of Magic and was taken back to Hogwarts via a portkey. I have been to Forks, Washington and saw what happens to a vampire in the sunlight. I ran through the streets of Rome and Paris with Robert Langdon (before he looked like Tom Hanks)

I remember reading the meaning behind The Wizard Oz when I was in high school. Dorothy represented something and the Tinman something else, etc. I wasn't sure that Frank Baum meant all that, he wrote a children's book. Right now I'm in the middle of reading Harry Potter again. I know that a lot of people see a lot in those books. To me it's a good verses evil kinda thang and good wins (always)

I do read Christian fiction also. For whatever you like to read there is a Christian alternative for it. Karen Kingsbury, Neta Jackson, Ace Collins, Terry Blackstock are just a few of my favorites. The things I like about them is that real things happen to the characters, some of them get hurt, some get sick, some die, just like real people.

Soooo pick up a book. It will introduce you to new friends and take you places you never imagined.