How I had not known about this day before truly puzzles me. Today is Book Lovers Day.
Have you ever became so engrossed with a book that you lie in your bed at night, the light on, and reading. Your hands and arms slowly falling asleep, forcing you to alternate hands that hold it up. You finish a chapter and look ahead, seeing that there are only 15 pages in the next chapter and think to yourself, "sure, I can read just one more chapter before falling asleep." Suddenly, you wake up with the book lying on your face, your nose acting as the book mark. The light shinning as your eyes suddenly dilate, trying to adjust. You fell asleep with your book again. Hopefully that doesn't happen too often to that many of you, but it has happened more times than I am willing to admit to myself.
You can learn so much through reading (probably why my professors always assign us so much reading homework).
Reading can transfer you anywhere. To another time, another place, or another land that has never been visited before.
Reading brings people together. Sharing a common interest or reading a the same book that a stranger read is a great way to relate to someone. You can relate books to anything. In fact, while typing this, my sister, Christina, sat beside me reading a paper I wrote for school in which I mention Edgar Allen Poe's Murder at the Rue Morgue. We talked about our favorite Poe books and poem.
So what do I want you to do? Go and grab the book your reading or pick up a new one, make yourself a drink, find a cozy chair, the shade under a tree or along the pool and read.
If you fall asleep while reading, don't worry about it...it happens to the best of us.
