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I find no shame in admitting that I am currently reading the Twilight series. It’s all my brother’s fault. If he hadn’t suggested it to me, hadn’t brought the first one to my house then I might not have gotten sucked in…(for those of you who have read it, pun totally intended!) Honestly, I don’t remember the last time I was this addicted to a book. It’s worse than my addiction to chocolate so you know it’s bad! I simply cannot stop reading. The way Stephanie Meyer paints her characters is brilliant. I know that I am not giving anything away when I tell you that there is a vampire in the story and I know that idea just conjured up all of these stereotypical images for you. However, this is the most original take on that idea that I’ve ever read. It’s hauntingly beautiful. There is such feeling; you find yourself longing to be friends with some of these folks. The story has the feel of Romeo and Juliet of which I am a huge fan.

Reading this book brought back the days of high school when I’d steal away to read Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë(how I love that story) or Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I was hungry for the words, the story, the connection I felt to the writing, the characters and the story. As I grow older, I feel as though I don’t always connect with books on that level. I don’t hunger for the stories the way I once did. I can put the book down, walk away and come back to it at any time. (Although that is definitely not the case right now.) Is it perhaps that the more demands on our time and the less time for reading means that there is no way we could have the same hunger or are is it that novels written nowadays for adults lack the ability to leave a reader on the edge of their seat?  Or is it something more?

What is the last book you read that you could not put down?? Did you love escaping to read when you were growing up? Do you love it now?

I can’t wait to hear your thoughts!