Books, books, books

I love reading!  I will read just about anything except a textbook, that is the one thing that I have to force myself to do.  But enough about textbooks.  I grew up reading great books introduced to me by my mother.  I figure if she wasn't a reader herself I would have never ventured into the world of mystery, suspense with crazy people popping up here and there.  Until recently I usually stuck with mystery and crime novels and the occasional thriller/scary books.  I love the mystery of trying to figure out who done it.  My mind races with all the possibilities as the pages fly by and then when the moment of suspense arrives to unveil who the culprit was I feel like I just found out the most deep dark secret that the book was holding.  The whole point of the previous pages being to distract and confuse in order to get you to see through the obvious.  Some books are better than others but a mystery is always a good choice.  Lately, however, I have found something new.  Something so powerful and descriptive and captivating that I never thought that a person could write like that.  All the emotions that the characters go through are felt deep down to my core.  The utter devastation of being rejected, the sharp pain of being torn away from someone you love, but also the amazing brilliance of vast landscapes and countries never before seen.  I swear that if I could go to the spot that was described that I could walk the same streets and enter the same building and know exactly where I was going to end up.  Every time the the protagonist is happy so am I, every time they are angry so am I, every time they feel hurt and alone so do I.  I feel like I'm right there in the story with them cheering them on and even wanting to comfort them.  Maybe I spend too much time reading, but if I didn't I would have never found the one story that was so close to my own that it gave me hope.  Stories are just stories, they aren't true and in real life half of the stuff would never happen.  Someday I might have my own story to write but until then I will continue to find new and interesting genres to expand and feed this ever growing need in me.