A Book is an Escape

A book is an escape. Sometimes life gets a little challenging or noisy or stressful. A book provides the perfect bridge into a new world (shame on me for using a cliché. Mrs. Bross would be horrified). A book distracts you from everything else that might be going on and allows you to solely focus on the little world of the characters with in the story. Sometimes it could teach you how to deal with some of the struggles in your life by showing you how the characters deal with similar problems. I’m sorry for the cheesiness. Other times the book might be totally different from your life and you get the opportunity to be taken away for that 45 minutes while you tear through the story. Not literary! Or librarians will hate you for life. Either way, you have a free ticket to another universe that you can use pretty much whenever you want. And who doesn’t love to travel?
I think books should actually *gasp* be on paper. Yes, I’m a little old fashioned. For one, it’s better for the environment. 40-50 books create the same carbon emission as 1 e-reader. Books: 1, E-reader: nada. Reading on a screen for extended periods of time gives me a headache. Books: 2, E-reader: still zero. The author gets more money from the book he/she spent ages writing. Books: 3, E-reader: 0. Fine, books do require the killing of innocent trees (Books: 3, E-reader: 1), but they are just more fun to read! Okay people?! Maybe I just don’t like e-readers because my grandma gave my sister one for Christmas, and I didn’t get one too. Or maybe book s are just plain old better.
In all seriousness, I love reading actual books instead of from a screen. It makes the temporary escape seem more real to me. This world is so filled with technology, we’re dependent on it. Sometimes, using paper and ink is the best way to go.

Post Numero Uno: Why I Read

Why do I read? I read for several reasons. For instances, if we're assigned a book in school, I will read it mostly because I have no intention of getting anything below an A in the class. No, Sparknotes do not work.

I love writing, and reading can help me improve it. Reading can broaden my vocabulary, and it can help me use more of a variety of words when I talk, and when I write. It can improve my grammar in certain cases, as it lets me see how people who get paid to write use them to grab the interest of the reader.

Reading can provide me with an escape to a different world, and it can get me to look at things from a different perspective for a little while, and teach me to have a respect for different types of people in different situations. I can get a peek inside cultures, different than my own and learn something about them.

How-to books can also teach you a new skill. They could motivate you do learn something that you wouldn’t normally try to pick up.

Books can touch you on a personal level. If they’re written well, it can feel like the author wrote it not to millions of random people, but to you.