Bookworm

Books. I just love books! Especially new books! And I love bookstores! Especially Barnes and Noble!

I went in to that specific store today to grab a new book because I just finished the one I was reading. (Side note: I hardly ever buy new books because they are so expensive, but I'm nearly out of good reads, and new books just smell so good!) Anyway, so, I went into Barnes and Noble and was flabbergasted at the breadth of literature that sparked my interest! Seriously, folks, I could've filled a library with the amount of books that caught my attention. Brian and I would've been poor and on the streets at the amount I would've spent, but at least we'd have a library over our heads! From magical to historic, from fiction to non, from beachy romantics to self help, I was enthralled at the selection! There were more books there that interested me in the short 5 minutes (5 minutes, mind you), that I could possibly read in a lifetime, and in a strange, odd way, it felt comforting.

Books, to me, are escapes. They allow you to dive into a completely different world. They allow you to relate, and work through, and reminisce, and sympathize, and fantasize, and imagine, and the emotions are just limitless, as are the plots! If you can think of it, you can write about it, and that is an amazing gift that we are all given. (Note: I'm not trying to escape life with my dear husband, bunny, and pupster, sometimes it just happens!) It just amazes me the different worlds that can be created through reading. Books are interesting, enlightening, captivating, and you can learn so much about so many different things!

I am officially a bookworm. I will continue to be an advocate of reading. I will continue to be a spokeswoman for Barnes and Noble. I will continue to explore the world around me with books (ah hem, be a bookworm). But this post is quite winded, and I will not continue ranting about how much I love books aside from this quick quote from William Hazlitt: "Books let us into our souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." Now, if that is not charming and romantic, I don't know what is!

Amen, Billy H., amen!