Reading is cool

I have loved to read since kindergarten, when I learned how to string letters together to make sounds and then words.  It was always a magical thing to me - to be able to create a visual in your mind using only words printed on a page is just really, really cool.  It's portable, personal and doesn't require any special equipment.  I pretty much always had a book on me.  Going on a field trip?  BOOK.  Going to the doctor and don't want to be bored in the waiting room?  BOOK.  You get the point.

My love of reading has gotten stronger as I've aged.  I was always afraid that I would run out of time for this pastime that I loved so much, but as with anything, you make time for the things you love and reading is no exception.  Since I'm no longer in college and have found it difficult to find those who enjoy reading as much as I do, I've discovered the wonderful BookTube and BookBlog communities and I love the fact that you can have this kind of discussion virtually.  So hopefully this blog will be a place for me to bounce around my thoughts on whatever it is that's on my bookshelf at the time.  I read anything from the classics (I was an English major), contemporary fiction, Young Adult fiction (whatever, Twilight was awesome) and beyond.  Because, after all...