How I long to be among the pages of a book that captures my attention so sweetly, then pulls me in and consumes me whole until I can’t think of anything else

I must read…I read to escape, to put myself in the place of others, to experience what I have yet to experience, to travel the world for ten to twenty dollars, I read to feel

I feel the emotions portrayed by the characters. The happy characters, the sad characters, the bitter characters. All such beautiful emotions depicted in words. I laugh and smile and cry and I hurt

Ultimately I hurt. The book ends. But I get such an exciting thrill from it that I read it again.