When I was in high school, my boyfriend gave me the Vampire Chronicles set of novels by Anne Rice for my birthday or for Christmas and I devoured them. A couple of weeks ago, inspired by a renewed interest in vampire lore thanks to True Blood, I picked up Interview with the Vampire and reread the first fifty or so pages. Isn’t it amazing how you’re brought back to another time and place while you read?
I think that the combination of working with words and pages for a living all day, and a lack of time at night has caused me to lose the ability to read. Not literally, of course, but I seem to be missing the ability to sit and get lost, really lost in a good book the way I could as a kid. I used to read novels by a night light in bed, long after my mom and dad and brother had gone to bed. I would sit up in our back yard maple tree and become totally immersed in the books I brought up there to read. Some kids called me a book worm and they were right.
This morning I had a solid hour to really lose myself in a book and it was terrific, like I was 17 again. And now I’ve got Twilight sitting here on the coffee table. I’m about to open it. I may not be back for a few days…
(Tomorrow is the Blogger Holiday Cookie Party…it’s not to late to participate!)
(This is it! The end of NaBloPoMo! And I did it! Yay!)
Hooray!! Congrats on the NaBloPoMo…I’m just one post away from the finish line.
Kyla’s last blog post..Oh, what a week.
God, I downloaded my ‘blew it’ button last week. Still, 25 out of 30 isn’t bad for me. It’s way more than I’ve posted lately, and the most postingest month ever for me, actually.
And losing yourself in a book? One of the great joys in life, I think.
mimi’s last blog post..My Christmas Cookie: Russian Teacakes
Congrats! Gonna be a fun december. I plan on knitting the entire time.
LetterB’s last blog post..Elevator, Going Up!
have so much fun reading twilight.. i hope you like it. and fall in love with edward. lol
jennster’s last blog post..time to eat some of my words