January 15, 2007

My favorite parts of reading:

1. Starting at my bookshelf and feeling my (not past, not pride of accomplishments) future self broaden with pride - look how smart and wise I will be after reading all of these books that up until now have served only to make me poor.

2. The choosing of another completely different book after reading a good, long one. (define:Long => greater than 100 pages if non-technical.) Example: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (David Eggers) followed up by The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis) or potentially an US Weekly or book about open Adoption or how to care for a small child.

3. The feeling of connection with my father, mother, sister, brother, grandfather that I never knew, grandfather that I knew, grandmother that I never knew, grandmother that I knew and adored for her love of books. Everyone has at least one book that they like because it screams back at them the part of the truth that they have figured out through bitter experience or simple stumbling, and finding and reading those books makes you connected to them - to that experience.

4. The smell and the brrrrrrrrrt sound as you flip pages quickly when you get towards the end, physically feeling some sort of accomplishment and wonder at how somehow could express something in something maybe one/two inches and a few ounces.

January 15, 2007 05:08 AM