the reader

ok so the movie was pretty good thats not what this is about. Actually it was much better than i expected. See it when you get the chance.
I've always loved books. Whether i could read them or not, just something about them to me was great. Guess it makes sense i work in a library now. It'd be nice to stay home with the kids, or even work somewhere else to make more money but if i did either of those I would surely miss being around all those books. I remember when I was a kid my parents had this big bookshelf full of all kinds of books. I took out a whole pile of them, opened them to various pages and spread them around me. I really didn't know what they were about and didn't care, just sort of picked at random and felt smart and old with them all around me. Not sure how old i even was. I remember when my mom came in and saw me she thought i was starving because appearently I had pulled out a bunch of cookbooks.

I was lucky because we lived close enough to the library that i would ride my bike or even walk there. I spent a lot of my summers every year trekking back and forth. Sometimes with a freind sometimes by myself. I still love reading and go on tears from time to time jumping from book to book and slacking on other things to read. Then I stop for awhile until one of my favorite authors puts out something new and I start a new tear. If only I had realized when i was younger i'd love working there i could be behind the librarian desk making some better money. Now i'd need time and money for school. Maybe eventually.

Recently on a tv show, movie or maybe i read it somewhere, they were talking about books and how every book is different to every person who reads it. You take yourself into the story and you get out of it something no one else will because they are not you. I knew this from my own experience with books and other people but this was the first i ever heard someone talking about it. It is so true.
Your experiences go with you when you read. you can identify better with some characters than other. some are more real some have been through what you have, some just touch you in different ways. I will never forget an argument I had with a high school boyfriend about a book i was reading. I was comparing myself to a character in a book and he just kept saying how it wasn't me. Well of course it was not but what if it was. I was like her in certain ways. I could be her. Why couldn't I be her and experience what she did? Maybe thats why I always enjoyed reading and he did not. I would be there in the story, in the character. Thats what it was about. Going to a different place, a different time, living a different life. All about the fantasy. And there are so many different stories and places to experience. So many different people to be. I think the regulars i see at my job definitely get it. Whats interesting its there are a lot more women than men. Maybe we just get it better. Maybe we just need a bigger better fantasy life. Or to escape our own lives more often than they do. It is definitely an escape. I don't need sound effects or the like in the movies like my husband enjoys, I want to picture it myself. It means more and is more enjoyable when I do it than to see someone elses take on the story. It is a special wonderful experience whether it is the most profound classic story that has been around for ages or the newest trashiest romance novel I could get my hands on. They are all worth my time reading.