I love reading

I love reading. The stuff I read is not profound or scientific- I like reading about fantasy and love, about innocence and childhood, I like romances and spy thrillers… I like almost everything! Some of my all-time favoutites are Exodus and Gone with the wind, the Anne of Green Gables series and Polyanna, Ayn Rand and Thornbirds. I love the Enid Blyton books, especially those about Mallory towers and St Clare's... I love Hary Potter, I love the trilogy of the Rings. I have often spent hours being Oliver Twist in my imagination, wasted hours of study time wondering how exactly it would feel to slowly fall down the rabbit hole as Alice... I have hated watching beautifully made movies based on books I love, just because they do not conform to my avid imagination, my preconceived ideas... I have survived on a lonely island as Robinson Crusoe, I have been kissed on the lips by Snow White's dream prince, I have shut myself up in my room for hours and cried when Ari Ben Canaan breaks down in Exodus. I have trembled with silent fury at the injustice meted out to women after spending a few hours with SharatChandra and Premchand. I have read Siddhartha and felt chords vibrate inside me that I didn't know existed. Tagore made me lose myself in the sunset, in the clouds, in the eternal beauty of nature. Shakespeare made me crave to meet my Romeo, to die for him. I have been Elizabeth and wept over Darcy's haughtiness, I have been Jane and felt my heart break, I have been Raskolnikov and wandered around the streets of Moscow totally drunk, punishing myself for my own crime...I have thanked God for having been born after Agatha Christie -some of my best moments have been spent poring over Miss Marple and Poirot, trying to solve those murders myself. I have wanted to be a parent to my child like Atticus was to Scout...I have laughed and cried, sang and danced, lived and died with the characters in my books… I have seen the world though a beautiful window created by my books... Thank you, God, for giving me eyes and the ability to read.