Books

Our Connection With Books Curling up with a good book in a comfortable chair or bed, on a park bench, or on the seat of a bus, is a pleasant pastime for many people. Whether fiction or non-fiction, books bring us pleasure. We read them for fun, to escape, to learn, to discover, to grow and improve. Books have been around for thousands of years. Even with the advent of modern technology such as television, computers and the Internet, books still play an important role in our lives. And despite even further rapid advances in technology, they likely will continue to play a large role for quite some time. When we read to our children, in addition to teaching, books help us to connect and form a bond. We can also read to our spouses, our friends, and the elderly. When we read to ourselves, we may connect to the adventurous hero within or the child we used to be. We also connect with the author of the book and the characters within its pages as well. Favorite books can grow ragged from wear, become marked heavily with a pen, pencil, or highlighter to help us find favorite passages, have their spines break, get torn and maybe even lose a page or two....and perhaps become even more loved because of it. Even reading poorly written books is not entirely a waste of time. We can laugh at how bad the book is, or find a hidden gem of a sentence that makes us laugh, cry, or think.