Reading is Fundamental

When I was a kid I loved to read. My dad even yelled at me once because my “nose was always in a book”. It was. He wasn’t kidding. I loved getting a new book, I still do, and if you have ever been to my house, you can find a book on any Christian subject. It’s crazy. I’ll probably never read them all, but they seem so interesting when I see them, I just can’t resist.
RIF would come to my school a couple times a year, WOO HOO! New books, I would get so excited because I got to pick one, I would have such a hard time, I would have one of the people hold them behind their back, and that’s how I would pick. Aunt Dee would take me to the library, garage sales, new books. I loved the smell of the library. It was the smell of a new adventure. Pippi Longstocking, Nancy Drew, even Barbie.
The first book I ever remember reading was “We like Kindergarten”. I would read it every night. And then there was Just Me & my dad. I would check out “where the sidewalk ends” by Shel Silverstein over and over. I loved to read. Even now, if the pastor starts to read a scripture, I keep reading, I can’t help it, I want to know what comes next.
In the last two years or so I have purchased many books but not finished any. About 6-9 months ago, I got a new book by my absolute favorite author, Linda Howard. I discovered this awesome author when I was dating Jerome, a really hot chef that I met at Roma’s, we shared the same love in a waiter, and the love of reading. For his birthday I got him “Hannibal” the follow up book to “Silence of the Lambs”, he loved it and was mad at me because he was in school and couldn’t study because he couldn’t put the book down. But… I saw this book while I was shopping, loved the title, “All the Queens Men”. How could you not like a title like that?! Read the book in about 4 days. Every spare moment I read a page, when the last chapter came I couldn’t decide if I was happy or sad, I would finally find out the ending, but sadly, my book was done. Thankfully, that wasn’t her first book, so I got every thing by her, I order her books pre-order when I can. I have had “Mackenzie’s Legacy” waiting patiently for me.
We didn’t leave for the beach until 3:00, but my book went with me. The girls searched for treasures in the sand, I found my treasure, a love I had forgotten as I turned the pages of my book.
I had forgotten how much I love to read. I remember how my imagination runs wild. I can see their faces, hear their voices.

Reading is Fundamental.