Adventures in reading (2019)

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
— Anna Quindlen, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

I am kind of a weird reader. When people ask me what genre of books I like, the answer doesn’t come easily. Is all of them appropriate?

I read non-fiction, I read poetry, I read best sellers, and self published, and self help, and everything in between. I read what calls to me, what’s offered to me, and what’s decided for me. I read on kindle, on paperback, on hardcover, and audiobook. I read in the car, on the train, on my couch, and on planes.

Reading Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver this summer was everything.

But why? How does one uncover this ferocious love of reading?

I get a lot from my mother — my smile, my optimism… most of my hardcover books.

Often when I read, I am unreachable. I dive into books as if they are movies — I see…