Forever In Search Of my Muse

~~~~ i love to read. i can not get enough of it, it is like an addiction for me i have to buy books and i have to read them. i own hundreds of books myself and have read most of them at least once if not more and have have many that i have bought and want to read. i swear i have to build a new house just for my books and live forever just to read all the books that i want to. i have such an eclectic taste in books that it surprises some to see me go from reading a Young Adult (YA) novel like Evermore by Alyson Noel to reading Le Miserables by Victor Hugo to reading a Historical Fiction (HF) on the Tudor Era to reading Jane Austin. i just do not read horror books just like i do not watch horror movies. Steven King, Dean Koontz, and authors that write in that genre are just not for me. Though i admit i love Dan Brown's books and can not wait for his new one to come out September 15th. i also can not stand the modern classics like Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, Tuck Everlasting, or Catcher in the Rye. Give me Shakespear or Victor Hugo or The Bronte Sisters any day.

~~~~ i swear i would read all day long if i could. MMMM a good candle or some incense burning with music playing in the background, a cup of hot tea and a comfy place to sit or lay down with a light blanket to cuddle under and i am in heaven and could just stay lost there forever in a good book. There have been days when i have been so caught up in a great book that my house works goes undone until my book is finished then i have to play catch up around the house and get everything that i let fall to the wayside done. i just love escaping into a good book and getting lost in the pages until i do not know how much time has passed. i take a book with me everywhere i go and always try to find even a few minutes to read it whenever i can... sitting in the car while it is being gassed up, waiting at a doctor's office, on the train or bus to work, on my breaks, at a resturaunt waiting for my food, while Son is playing at the beach or the playgournd (then it is always something light so i can watch him too), before i go to bed, and best of all with Son.

~~~~ i am trying to instill in Son a love of reading like i have. You can go so many places in books and do so many wonderful things. i want him to love it as much as i do. Right now he and i are reading the Harry Potter books together. He has seen the movies and keeps asking about what is going to happen and why this or that happened in the movie and i keep telling him he needs to read the books to find out but the books were just to daunting of an idea for him so to make it seem like less of a huge deal we read them together each taking a chapter and reading outloud. We have just started this and are on the first book but we will get through all of them eventually and maybe this will encourage him to read other books plus i get to spend quality time with him reading two things i love most. We use the website http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/pronunciation.htm to pronounce the names and spells correctly. He loves going to that website and hearing how the names are pronounced and even yells at the movies when they say the names wrong. It is so cute. (Don't tell him i said that though he is 10 and boys are not supposed to be cute at that age.)

~~~~ Roommate loves to read as much as i do and has about as many books as i do and a lot of his are for YA or children's books because he loves the stories in them. He has offered to let Son read any of his books that he wants to. Which is really awesome. Roommate and i also lend books to his sister and niece and nephews they love coming over here and going through all our books and seeing what they want to barrow to read. We have been given the nick names of The King and Queen of Books. It is just great to see teenagers and other adults that love to read. More people should do it and watch less TV. if you ask me.

~~~~ i would much rather buy my books from the bookstore or even a garage sale or thrift store then barrow them from a library. Yes, i know it would be much cheaper to barrow them but i do not always want to read them right away when i get them or i want to read them many times like To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee which i have read probably about 75 time so far or The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett which i have probably read just as many times. Not to mention i love the smell and feel of a new book and the sound it makes when you open the cover for the first time. Plus when i buy them i can say they are mine and i can keep them forever or pass them on if i wish.