Post 2: What is a book?

                A book is an adventure. It brings you into a new world and allows you to go places never been before. The details are your senses and the tour guide that leads you further into the story. I haven’t had the opportunity yet to read a book off of an electronic device but in my opinion a physical book is more special to read and means more than reading a story without really having the paper copy of the book. I agree that the most important part of a book though is the idea or message perhaps lesson that has been learned and taken from the book. You can connect your thoughts and think about topics that otherwise might not be thought of without reading the certain passage or story. Though I have to say that having a book in paper copy brings you closer to the book. It allows you to get lost in the pages. Realize the depths that are within the words chosen. The crisp turning of the page and the little sense of victory after reaching a certain page or part of the book. Electronically page numbers don’t mean as much. It gives you no sense of how far you really are into the story.  Seeing how far you have read by the page amount ahead of you means something more than just a number. Yes there is something "magical" about an actual book. The fact that you can go into another world and let your eyes glide across the page and quickly turning to get to the next as if its a race. Then when you finally go to put down the book into the real world it is. Looking at the amount of pages you have read and seeing how far you were lead  into the book is the relflection after reading. Seeing those pages I have read will always mean something more to me then looking at a number of pages I had read on an electronic device. Yes, they are nice and helpful but even so a book will be something special to me. An adventure.

Post #1 Why I Read

I read because I love to get lost in a book. Spending time to just go into that world and experience what is going on in that book. It puts you in new situations and shows you what it would be like to be a different person or a different character. You get to know the characters and what they go through personally as if they were a real person. Reading is like making your own movie version of the book. You can relate it to you and your life and the people you know to everything in the book. Reading expands your imagination and takes you to  places you never thought possible or may never be possible in the world we live in. It makes you think outside of the box and new possibilities. When I read it is just me and the book and personal time to think on how the book changes my thoughts or sparks thoughts about different topics. Reading allows you to think about things brought up in the book can put you in different situations through the character as said before. It is like experiencing what is happening but not having to be actually there. I love the crisp pages that I turn to fall further into the book. Most of all I love the adventures where books take me.