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I don't know what has come over me lately, but I can't stop reading. Maybe it's the fact the 40 minute bus ride to school is very drab. I need something to spice up the mundane, everyday ride to school. And indeed reading has lent me that oh so helping hand. 

I do listen to my music and that is lovely, but sometimes my thoughts have the tendency to run away from me. Ranging from big dreams of travel or just circle the unknown. So I find that it is best, at least for right now, to not be left alone with my thoughts. To just take a break and be engulfed in a cheesy teenage romance or life changing story. something to tide me over and take me to another world, where my thoughts will be submerged in something other than school, work, boys, and the other random tandoms I experience. 

I think it's just me, but I love to actually hold the book. The kindle and other electronic devices are great, but I love to turn  the pages and experience the paper. The smell! I love the spell of freshly bought books. When the covers have beautiful artwork on them, it adds to the beauty of the whole novel entirely.  Which means I have to admit.... I do judge the books by the covers. Of course I read the inside to really get a feel for whats going on. But sometimes the cover says it all and I know from there that I'm not going to like it. I promise I'm not shallow though. The cover is like the cherry on top, with a little creativity the cover could tell the story. Like when I was at Barnes & Noble, I saw a wonderful cover for the classic Little Women. It gave the illusion like it was a needle artwork project that one of the girls would have done, and even on the inside of the sleeve it looked like what the back of needle work would have looked like as well. I thought that was brilliant. But not everyone agrees with a "fashionable/ modernized" cover. Some times a plain and simple cover is just as beautiful as one with the little details. 

I just think all books are beautiful. I love them, and hope that my children will be able to experience what it's like to hold an actually book and be able to sit in a Barnes & Noble, or local bookstore and feel how amazing and simple life can be at that very moment. Books can take you to places you have never been before and help you understand people more than you thought you ever could. I hope people find as much comfort in reading as I do.

Until next time.

-O