From what I could remember I have always been reading. I would spend hours before sleeping getting lost in the words, so enthralled by what was going on in the books I would pick up that my answer to the question “what time did you sleep” became routine. On my way to school, to class, and back home there was not a moment where I wasn’t reading something. I would always be lost in a good book throughout the years.
It wasn’t until around my sophomore or junior year of high school I had lost that passion to always be involved in a book. It was no longer the same for me, and it got me in a reading slump. What drew me back into reading was Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow. I remember the emotions I felt while reading. It all felt surreal, feeling sadness and understanding throughout the story, in the end I was left speechless and in tears finally remembering why I had started reading in my childhood. The emotions books can draw out of you and the journeys you could go on with each different story and author is beautiful and comforting, a feeling I never want to lose again.
Reading is a form of escape from the real world. A small break from the hardships one can face in normal everyday life. Once you find an author or genre that makes you feel and draws out those intense emotions you will understand why many people read, they read to be happy to explore each word that is written and each journey that is expressed in each page. That is what reading was like for me in my childhood, and I want it to always be like that for me and for others as well.
Get the book Check out Girl in Pieces at the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, or the Queens Public Library.
About the author Mj is a lover of psychological thrillers, young adult fiction, and poetry and a psychology major at BMCC.
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