Too Close To The Heart
I've discovered that I have a troublesome habit. I involve myself too much into the books I am reading. I loose myself in the story and sometimes feel like the events, people and emotions are real. Or I'll forget that not everyone in the world is reading this book at the same time I am. So often I've started to say something to someone about a particularly juicy part of a book and will have to quickly remind myself that it isn't a TV show that others are surely watching. It is a book and the events and feelings are only in my mind. I'm sure there is some long-ass psycholigical term describing this, as there is with every quirk human nature can eek out.
I've often thought of joining a book club so I could be around others reading the same thing at the same time. For one thing, I truly don't have the time or opportunity to add one more thing onto my overflowing plate right now. For another thing, I read books so fast that it would be excruciating to deal with the slow process I imagine each book would require. Also, who's to say others are going to feel the immersion I feel into a book and could discuss the book in a manner that would do it justice? Besides, most people I know who are in book clubs usually end up reading the classics or stimulating non-fiction. No thanks, not for me.
I can read a book and feel the tramatic feelings the characters are feeling due to their losses, heartaches and wrong doings. On the flip side, I can read a hot steamy passage and be ready to have my own steamy session in seconds flat!
The part I just finished in the book I'm currently reading has the heroine being dogged by someone she thought was "the one". The feelings I have right now are as if I was the one wronged. Plus it has left me thinking. The people in this book are mid-life (50's) and are dealing with the same bullshit in relationships that were gone through in our 20's. God forbid you are in a situation to be beginning a relationship in your 50's but damned if you don't hope that by then you would have to wade through less shit than you did when you were in your 20's. Apparantly not.
The cool thing with this book is that the writer is from this area and the book is set in this area also. It almost feels like celebrity by association to be reading a passage and have it reference the Inner Harbor, Columbia and Pikesville as part of the story. So many of the books I read are set in other areas. By chance, the last two I've read (by two different authors) have been set in this area. Pretty cool, I think.
I guess my ability to engulf myself in books is a good trait. It shows I'm truly getting into the story. I've had the same feelings from dreams. I'll wake up from an exceptionally vivid dream and will have to take a few minutes before I can comprehend that the events didn't truly happen. It was only a dream.
Well, it's time to step outside and read a few more pages.
Read On!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've often thought of joining a book club so I could be around others reading the same thing at the same time. For one thing, I truly don't have the time or opportunity to add one more thing onto my overflowing plate right now. For another thing, I read books so fast that it would be excruciating to deal with the slow process I imagine each book would require. Also, who's to say others are going to feel the immersion I feel into a book and could discuss the book in a manner that would do it justice? Besides, most people I know who are in book clubs usually end up reading the classics or stimulating non-fiction. No thanks, not for me.
I can read a book and feel the tramatic feelings the characters are feeling due to their losses, heartaches and wrong doings. On the flip side, I can read a hot steamy passage and be ready to have my own steamy session in seconds flat!
The part I just finished in the book I'm currently reading has the heroine being dogged by someone she thought was "the one". The feelings I have right now are as if I was the one wronged. Plus it has left me thinking. The people in this book are mid-life (50's) and are dealing with the same bullshit in relationships that were gone through in our 20's. God forbid you are in a situation to be beginning a relationship in your 50's but damned if you don't hope that by then you would have to wade through less shit than you did when you were in your 20's. Apparantly not.
The cool thing with this book is that the writer is from this area and the book is set in this area also. It almost feels like celebrity by association to be reading a passage and have it reference the Inner Harbor, Columbia and Pikesville as part of the story. So many of the books I read are set in other areas. By chance, the last two I've read (by two different authors) have been set in this area. Pretty cool, I think.
I guess my ability to engulf myself in books is a good trait. It shows I'm truly getting into the story. I've had the same feelings from dreams. I'll wake up from an exceptionally vivid dream and will have to take a few minutes before I can comprehend that the events didn't truly happen. It was only a dream.
Well, it's time to step outside and read a few more pages.
Read On!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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