Books

   Behind my bed is a shelf, that my oldest son made in school last year, the dark and shiny wood chocked full of books. A variety of nonfiction subjects along side many works of romantic fiction usually. The romance books run the range from pure and innocent to down right raunchy. That is the beauty of books; getting lost in the 1800’s in the God centered time of life riding wagons or the enchantment of something magical, perhaps some dirty hot sex for you, or feeling the emotions of the person who has lost someone they love, you can learn how to save seeds from your own garden or even self massage techniques to free your shoulders and neck and getting a first hand view of what it is like to live as a quadriplegic. When you spend so much time in your home or in your bed books become your adventures, your exciting story to tell, your vacations and your focus away from your crazy life. 

Now that I have so much time on my hands I found a love of books; comprehension was an issue when I was young so I didn’t do a lot of reading until I became an adult. The library has become a most important entity in my life. I love seeing my email from the library stating what books or movies I have in. I use goodreads.com to organize my constantly added to “to read” list and keep track of my “read” list and search reviews etc…It’s a great site. I participated in my first ever reading challenge in 2015 and surpassed my goal of 50 books. It may not sound impressive to some and others may wonder how in the hell I managed it or even why I bothered at all ha ha. It doesn’t matter. I am damn proud of my accomplishment and this year my challenge is 60 books.

The thing about a reading goal is that, it is one I can actually attain, one that doesn’t include needing to do anything physical, no exercise or daily work for a designated amount of time. Finding goals for myself has proven a vital role in my happiness as a person. Most of my goals are little daily things such as today I will fold and put away a load of laundry-granted this laundry goal doesn’t often enter my to do list ha, or walk outside for a few minutes since I haven’t been out of the house in days, maybe working on a piece of jewelry or just finally making some phone calls I probably already should have made and some days to finish one of the books I am reading. There are days my goal is merely making it up and down the stairs a few times to get food and water. So thanks to reading I find something to aim for, something to escape to and something to entertain me or influence my feelings. 

More about books shall we? We shall. Do you have a favorite book? Perhaps a genre you repeatedly choose that won’t let you down? Is there an author you are obsessed with and you cannot possibly wait until their next novel is released? The last book I finish had me balling buckets by the time it was over, full on ugly snort crying…I loved it and haven’t yet begun reading the sequel, my emotions needed time to settle. 

So I don’t know if you can comment easily on here or if you must have some sort of account or something but hey if you can, talk to me about books. I would love to hear from you all.