Post #1: Why I Read

I believe that the reason I, and many others, read is to escape from reality for a little while. Some books draw you in and take you from a living room or a car to a place where dragons exist or you're in the middle of a battlefield. I read alot when I was younger because I always wanted to be in a magical type world. Reading gave me this opportunity to be right alongside Harry Potter as he defeated Voldemort, or uncovering the true existance of God in The Lost Symbol. Every once in a while reality just isn't quite exciting enough, or is getting you down. Instead of reverting to drugs or crime we can turn to books! They give the same release from reality and flurry of emotion with quite different long term affects. You may have a reading hangover when you're done, but this only means you might have questions begging to be answered, or a plotline that you need finished so you salivate over the idea of a possible sequel, or prequel, or spinoff that isn't quite as successful but keeps the story alive just the same.