A reader lives a very exciting life!īooks don’t just happen. I’ve solved mysteries and been frightened by rampaging dinosaurs. I’ve lived underground with earthworms, built dams with beavers, snuggled into rocky underwater crags with octopi and flown the world with honeybees. I’ve traveled through time, to other continents, even to other planets. Good writers make you forget yourself and live vicariously through their characters. I do have those on a pre-order list and look forward to getting a heads up when a new book is coming out, but most are random picks that caught my eye or were mentioned by some other reader who enjoyed the journey.Īs I read a book, I enter into a special kind of relationship where I see the world, life, and people through another set of eyes. People have asked me who my favorite author is, and my favorite is whomever I happen to be reading at the time. A reader gets to know a stranger through their characters and story, their style of writing, the themes they choose. God made each of us unique, and therefore worth getting to know. Each writer has a voice, like a fingerprint or the iris of the eye. It’s exciting to dive into another person’s mind and heart.

Every book has something to teach me, even the poorly written ones. More often, I put little dots on pages where there is something that I want to write in my quote collection. My husband, Rick, reads three to four books to my one, but he says I remember the ones I’ve read. I like the weight of a book in my hands, the smell and feel of the pages. I don’t plug in a device to hear a book being read to me.

A voice in the wind by francine rivers