A Book Is A Book And Nothing More

It is just a bunch of words on paper

Written by an author on any number of subjects

For people to read and enjoy

To receive pleasure or enjoyment through someone else's thoughts

As the reader we have no obligation

We may pick up the book and put it down

It may not catch our interest or desire

We may flip through a few pages driven by our curiosity and imagination

Then decide what we read was just enough to peak our interest and put the book back

Because we feel we need nothing more

There are those times that we pick up a book on a subject

That has always been a hidden interest or passion

Now the pages talk to you one on one

As if you both have the same common feelings and thoughts

When you read the next page it is if you have written that line

Your other interests seem to be put on hold

The words capture your thoughts and hold you captive

You do the only thing you know

To read on and see if you can break free

The more you read the deeper you go

Trying to stop you turn away and put the book down

Thinking before this very moment you have never seen this book

So there is no need to buy it

You have lived your whole life until now without it

You pick up the book again and read a little more

Now you look at the price and if it was high you would probably put the book back

Because you couldn't justify spending that amount of money on a book

When you could buy something else

Fortunately this book has been marked down and is on clearance

You know it's a good deal when you buy a book for less when other people had to pay full price

That means you can buy a couple of books and still have money left over

It is a great bargain and a real treasure

It would be a wonderful addition to the other books in your collection

As you put it back on the shelf you tell yourself you don't need it

You have other books you haven't finished reading so why buy another one

Realizing if you put it back you may not be able to get the same deal again

Later if you bought the same book you would pay a lot more because books don't sell much cheaper

Then again there are shelves and shelves of books in every bookstore to be read

You can go to your local library and look for the same book

You are left with a decision to walk away

Write down the book title and author

So at a later date look for the same book

As a few minutes pass that seemed like hours

I was in line holding the book in my hand

Going through the register and purchasing my latest favorite book

Have you ever done this ?

I think back to my early childhood where I bought a few books in school

From a Scholastic book club and all the feelings I felt when we got to order our books

Waiting a few weeks until they arrived

Then we got to have the books we checked off

For me it was more than one sometimes three

I know I loved that feeling

The comfort of having a few books that I could read at anytime and call them my own

Over the years my book collection has grown

Where I have run out of room

So I have downsized to make some space

Given a few books away

Books have always been my little piece of heaven

Where anything and everything has a place and a home