Last week was world book week. The whole country has been celebrating with school events and wbd teenfest, an online book festival for teens. This year, the theme is Why I Can't Live Without Books. This got me thinking.
I read quite a lot, mostly for entertainment, but there is more to it than that. I'm quite imaginative, and I like seeing into other worlds - both the fantasy kind and the worlds of real people who live very different lives to me. With books, you see into those worlds at a much deeper level than in film and TV. You find out what they are thinking. I guess the reason I could not live without books is because without them, I would never see into those ways of life in such depth. They also sometimes make you see your own life in a different way.
Stories can also be an escape, pulling you into other places, times and situations long enough that you forget your own problems for a little while. They can also give you the ideas to write your own, which is very important to me as I want to be a writer myself (one of the reasons I write a blog). So, I think books will probably always be a part of my life. Do you read a lot? Why can't you live without books?
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