But if you do like reading, I think you'll love reading my article. I hope you do, at least ^_^ Anywho, where was I? Oh, right. Books!
I think the first thing we all love about books, and the reason why we read them, is because they tell stories. For those of you who read, you're probably like me, and often day dream about having fantastical adventures, swordfighting with a masked, top hatted bad guy, to save a princess, (or a prince, in some cases). We live very repeptietive, mundane lives, and so books to us our like short vacations into the immagination, where antyhing can happen. (I mean it, literally anything can happen) they anwser our burning what if questions, let us go places we've never been, and give us insight into a life and realm full of possibilities.
And what makes reading better than T.V. in case you where wondering, is that reading builds the imagination muscles, as the reader and the author have to work together to imagine and peice together the story. Sometimes you get to even take part in the adventure. (another great thing about books, btw) While watching T.V. You see everything happen before your eyes, your not really "apart" of makeing it come alive.
Second. Books are each unique in their own, special way. They can be similar to one another, no doubt, but they are all somehow different from one another. like snowflakes and finger prints. In fact, you could say books are a lot like people. Which may be why we relate to them so well. They each have their own personalities, and different writing style, causing each reader to have their own specific taste.
Finally, books, reading, and writing, are something anyone with the gift of being able to read and write, can share. It's a community of people who interact with each other through these stories and share their opinions about them, whether it is you, the author, the reader, or that weird old granny book club who meet once a week down at the coffee shop. It really is, and something anyone can be apart of. Books are the connections, the currency, the ideas, the trade, and the people who read them created a web of ideas and stories that are forever interconnected with one another.
Think of it this way. I read the book Harry Potter. How many of you reading this have read at least one of the seven books? A lot of you, probably. Now how many have read the Phantom Tollbooth? Not as many. But that's okay (good book by the way) but I have one friend I know whos read it. We share books quite often. But the sometimes, she reads books I don't care for, but another one of her friends absolutely loves. And it continues on from there. In my eyes, books are more than mere stories written down on paper. They are what connect us with one another (well, readers anyway) They create bonds, connections. People recomend books to one another, discuss them with one another, book clubs form, book orginzation s are created. And you share a connection with the author two, as they (obviousl) are readers too. I love it when people try to figure out their favorite, which people like better, which books are good for what mood. There are so many possibilies, connections, and so on to describe. You just have to read.
So if you haven't started reading yet, I highly recommend it. It's fun ^_^ And you become apart of a web that streteches across the nation, possibly the world, into every elemteray, middle, highschool, collage, work place, or home.
Plus....you don't need the internet.
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