"Stop for a minute and let your mind drift back to the times in your life when reading mattered, the times when you were so totally engrossed in a book that it was more important than the phone ringing, the hungry grumbles in your stomach, or your favorite TV show starting. Remember a time when you were so lost in a book, you stayed up all night long to finish it. Remember a time you cheered out loud for a character. Remember a time you and your son fell asleep in bed while you were reading to him; you awoke several hours later with the book squished in between the two of you."I do almost all of those things on a regular basis, with the exception of reading to my non-existent son. The most recent book that made me actually jump up out of my comfy seat, to the point where I was standing on my bed reading furiously, was Elizabeth Flock's Me & Emma about an eight-year old girl named Carrie who deals with an overactive younger sister, an absent neglectful mother, and a gruesome stepfather. Her past and present mix as she narrates the tale leading up to her hospitalization. Yes I just told you that she's hospitalized in the end, but trust me I haven't given anything away. If you read this book, I hope you find yourself getting lost in Carrie's powerless situation.
You may be wondering why this career-related blog is discussing reading and great books. Well, I'm an English major. Reading and great books are pretty much always on my mind. Besides gaining knowledge of up-and-coming authors, I'm extending my favorite genres so I'm more able to talk to almost anybody about literature. But after you jump into books, you should still be able to differentiate between reality and fiction. (You should not bite your peers, but you should read!)
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