From the time I was got my first Harry Potter book, to the last novel in the Eragon series, I would go to bed around 10:30, and read till the late hours of the night, losing my own identity in the stories I would read. I especially loved the genre of fantasy and science fiction, things that seemed so awe inspiring to me. It was then that I really learned to love reading, and learned to put myself in the novel.
Unfortunately, these nighttime escapes haven't withstood the test of time. I haven't been able to continue this routine throughout the years, although I wish I could have. Now my reading consists mostly of textbooks and the Book of Mormon. As I devote more and more time to reading the Book of Mormon, it surprises me that the same feelings I got while reading as a kid would return, and I could escape into the novel. The Book of Mormon is something that has shaped my literary knowledge and my life, more than anything else in the world, and it contributes more to my life daily than most anything else.While I have some knowledge of literature, I still have much more to learn, and definitely many more pieces of literature to read.
My freshman year of college, I really missed reading novels. I missed being able to lose all of my stresses in a novel. Like you though, I found relief in The Book of Mormon. Every time I opened The Book of Mormon I felt piece come over me and after reading for a while I felt ready to carry on my studies!
ReplyDeleteI feel very much the same way about books that you do. I love them, I love the excitement and the adventure. It seems that books have much more to experience than movies do, there's something about becoming the characters, seeing inside their mind and experiencing what they do. I too have not really been able to keep up with reading novels. Much of my time is spent in textbooks, the scriptures or even church books for a religion class or to gain greater understanding. But you're right, the feelings are still there. There is still adventure in being one of the stripling warriors, or maybe even in a textbook.
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