It's Friday, and I am not finished with my current book, so cannot review it yet (I'm loving it, though.. come back next week so I can tell you about it).
Instead of posting a book review, I looked for reasons why people love to read. This is what I found:
[from Confessions of a Book Addict]:
For company: when I read a book, the outside world becomes nothing but a blur of noises and movement in comparison to the story.
Adventure: "becoming" what is in the book fulfills my dreams of adventure.
Leisure: there is ALWAYS something to do if you’ve got a good book hanging around.
Suspense/excitement: a good story, well-told, can make your heart skip a beat, your skin crawl, or your senses just go "Wow!"
Passion: Reading for me isn’t just something that my eyes do, but it is something that all the senses of my body strive to understand, accept, and receive.
[from Seekers Portal at wordpress]:
Virtual travel: Reading allows me to go places I will never be, and to learn invaluable life lessons.
Keeps me fully awake and alive: Being a bibliophile is the only positive addiction I know so far; reading keeps my faith, hope and love alive.
My own reasons are similar to the above: learning, and keeping me fully alive. I learn so much through reading, and I can vicariously experience an endless, fascinating world. Reading stimulates my imagination and my curiosity, reinforces my loves and introduces me to new ones, and helps me solidify who I am and why.
There's a big, beautiful world out there that can be explored through books. Why do you love to read?
Reading is therapeutic for me. It helps to stop the constant churning of my brain and focus it on the story at hand. I love everything about reading. Searching for books, reading reviews, making lists of what I've read and what I'm going to read, and (of course) the act of reading itself.
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