Tag: Reading

Being at home for months on end during this pandemic certainly gave many of us opportunities to pass the time in different ways. I have found great pleasure in reading this year and appreciate all the authors and books available. I appreciate learning how I could easily borrow ebooks from my local library and send them to the Kindle app or my Kindle for reading. How easy and cost-free it is to check out books for free, and I don’t take this for granted!

I appreciate the Goodreads community, for all the reviews and suggestions on books to read, too. I like seeing what my friends are reading and appreciate the reviews. And I recently won one of their book give-a-ways! I love reading and burying myself into a good book. Burying myself into a thrilling novel and into the characters is such a pleasure for my soul.

What fun it is to listen to an audiobook, narrated by the author, too! While it usually takes me longer to finish an audiobook than by reading it myself, listening to audiobooks is a great way to pass time while driving or traveling somewhere.

Reading as a child really fostered my imagination and I appreciate my small town library where I think I read every book I could. The librarian knew me well and would tell me about new books available when I went there. I loved reading when I was a lot younger and had to get permission slips from my parents to read some books that were considered out of my ‘age-appropriate’ category. I appreciate my parents for giving me that permission.

I’ll never forget the scandal in my high school when a parent of one of my classmates picked up a book his daughter had at home. We were reading it for an English class at the time. He was outraged by the language in the book and successfully lobbied the school board to remove the book from the school and from our class curriculum. We had to stop reading it, even if we hadn’t yet finished. We were all shocked by this censorship. I appreciate that this censorship only inspired me to read even more. Often the unwanted contrast of life creates awesome results. It definitely serves as a way to discover what we want out of life.

I appreciate discussing books I’m reading with my friends here where I live, who are all avid readers. They give me suggestions of books to read and my reading list gets longer and longer everyday. I really appreciate these discussions, but I also appreciate that my opinion is my own, and we don’t all have to like the same books. I know that there’s a book for everyone’s tastes and that’s a wonderful thing to appreciate.

Note: I never did finish reading that book that was taken from us decades ago. I’ve added it to my reading list and will read it this year. It’s such a long list, and I’m ready for it!