Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelieavably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Thursday, September 13, 2012


I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody;I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I’m justbeginning myself, and I wouldn’t mind a map;I read because I have friends who don’t, and young though they are,they’re beginning to run out of material;I read because every journey begins at the library, and it’s time for me to start packing;I read because one of these days I’m going to get out of this town,and I’m going to go everywhere and meet everybody,and I want to be ready.

- Richard Peck
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