Take a look, inside a book, reading rainbow!

   This might be cliche or I may have just created this cliche, but books are like a rainbow. The genres of fiction span this beautiful spectrum and create a type of rainbow for themselves. Get it? I still somewhat do not but do any cliches truly make sense once you really think about them?
   If you have read any of my previous posts I hope you are able to tell that I am a book lover. Well, maybe not a book lover, perhaps a book devourer. I read any book that I can get my hands on but I can get quite picky sometimes. The only genre of books I do not like are non-fiction unless they are historical. Whenever I find a book that I like, I can spend hours reading said book and then you will not see me for a few days afterwards. As I have said before, I read books in a block type fashion. I read twenty pages or so and then I take a break. I swear I have ADD or something, nothing can really keep my attention very long. I am lucky that I am getting this blog post typed out and that I am not flitting around doing other things.
   I am a firm believer in books. Books can be your friend or you can make them your worst nightmare. I know people who do not like books and I can never really understand them. A good view point I have heard about this is that they have not found the right book just yet and that once they do they will not be able to stop reading. I sincerely hope that they find that right book soon or else I will never hear the end of it whenever I pick up a book. Books are those things, I will call them characters, that each have their own personality. Whether the book has its own personality or the writer puts their personality into the book, ever work of fiction is different and special in its own way.

   I always read quotes about books. Half of my time is spent looking up quotes that relate to my life somehow. I look up quotes on hope, love, BOOKS! I think that my favorite quote is from an author I have never even heard of before let alone read his books.
It goes like this:

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” 
-- George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons 

   I was trying to figure out what I had spent my summer doing, I could not remember for the life of me. Then I remembered what I had been doing. My memory consists of me going to Guys and Dolls practice almost every morning this past summer and then I had no memories past that. I was not allowed to use my computer that much and I had made a book list. I spent my afternoons after I got out of practice, reading. I read from noon until about five in the evening. That is why I have no recollection. I was living other people's lives and I was experiencing their lives and not my own. I experienced Aragorn, Eowyn, Sam, Pippin, Frodo, Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester, and so many other characters. I had spent all of my time inside of a book this summer and I do not regret it one bit. 
   If you put down a book it will always remember you and you will always remember it. You might think of it and you might forget it at times. You will always come back to it though. Sometime late at night the book will call to you and you will be drawn to it and you will come back to it and you will love it again.