Yes that is me, in my Snuggie, on the couch, reading a book, one of my favorite places to be. I am an admitted Bookworm. I am a reading girl and proud of it. I have always had this unspoken love of the written word. I have always been able to escape my life and problems by jumping into an exciting story. I have always loved the smell of ink and paper, or the crack sound of the spine of a new book as it is opened. I love to walk through book stores or libraries for hours and just pull books off shelves until I find something new. I WAS the teased little girl on the bus with her nose in a book. But I hate to admit in high school and going into adulthood some of that passion faded. I started to think reading wasn't cool and barely pursued it with the zest I once had. Reading the occasional non-fiction or auto-biography I was bored. Then one day in my new found adulthood of working constantly, finishing college and "nursing" my new marriage I heard of this new book taking the country by storm, "Twilight". I was intrigued! When I had read fiction in the past few years it was Harry Potter, or the occasional Ann Rice adult vampire fare. I needed something new in my life. Boy did Twilight ever light a spark! I remember a love for reading fiction I forgot I had! I was enveloped in a world in a book once again! Not since childhood had I felt such a bond with a group of characters. My poor husband of course thought I was going a little crazy. Especially when we went to the REAL Forks, Washington! Or went to a huge book signing to meet Mrs. Meyer herself! The insanity got bad for a while there. =p But I came out of the other side of my Twilight addiction and a world of amazing books and authors was waiting for me. Yes, at first they all involved vampires like Jeri Smith-Ready and her radio station vamps or Charlaine Harris and her super sexy southern vampires.But eventually I branched out and found a whole world I was missing! Cassandra Clare and her Shadowhunters, Maggie Stiefvater and her lovable werewolves, Suzanne Collins and the amazing Hunger Games just to name a few. I am so in love with books it is silly! So this year this "crazy" ( I prefer overzealous) working mother is setting herself a little reading goal. I may not get there but I want to read 51 books this year. I have a list of some all time classics, some of the hottest YA and adult novels and some books that I have heard so much buzz about I can't resist them. My list is very well rounded and only a couple books even have a vampire in them. =p So I am going to chronicle my little journey and give updates on some of the books I am reading here on my humble blog. Maybe even give some suggestions. "But you don't have to take my word for it..."
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Bookworm!
Yes that is me, in my Snuggie, on the couch, reading a book, one of my favorite places to be. I am an admitted Bookworm. I am a reading girl and proud of it. I have always had this unspoken love of the written word. I have always been able to escape my life and problems by jumping into an exciting story. I have always loved the smell of ink and paper, or the crack sound of the spine of a new book as it is opened. I love to walk through book stores or libraries for hours and just pull books off shelves until I find something new. I WAS the teased little girl on the bus with her nose in a book. But I hate to admit in high school and going into adulthood some of that passion faded. I started to think reading wasn't cool and barely pursued it with the zest I once had. Reading the occasional non-fiction or auto-biography I was bored. Then one day in my new found adulthood of working constantly, finishing college and "nursing" my new marriage I heard of this new book taking the country by storm, "Twilight". I was intrigued! When I had read fiction in the past few years it was Harry Potter, or the occasional Ann Rice adult vampire fare. I needed something new in my life. Boy did Twilight ever light a spark! I remember a love for reading fiction I forgot I had! I was enveloped in a world in a book once again! Not since childhood had I felt such a bond with a group of characters. My poor husband of course thought I was going a little crazy. Especially when we went to the REAL Forks, Washington! Or went to a huge book signing to meet Mrs. Meyer herself! The insanity got bad for a while there. =p But I came out of the other side of my Twilight addiction and a world of amazing books and authors was waiting for me. Yes, at first they all involved vampires like Jeri Smith-Ready and her radio station vamps or Charlaine Harris and her super sexy southern vampires.But eventually I branched out and found a whole world I was missing! Cassandra Clare and her Shadowhunters, Maggie Stiefvater and her lovable werewolves, Suzanne Collins and the amazing Hunger Games just to name a few. I am so in love with books it is silly! So this year this "crazy" ( I prefer overzealous) working mother is setting herself a little reading goal. I may not get there but I want to read 51 books this year. I have a list of some all time classics, some of the hottest YA and adult novels and some books that I have heard so much buzz about I can't resist them. My list is very well rounded and only a couple books even have a vampire in them. =p So I am going to chronicle my little journey and give updates on some of the books I am reading here on my humble blog. Maybe even give some suggestions. "But you don't have to take my word for it..."
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