Day 8

I'm grateful for books.

I love the feel and weight of books.

I considered wanting to buy something like the Nook or Kindle,

but that would only be useful to me on vacations.

I love to hold the book, smelling that musty old book smell or the smell of ink on new pages.

Call me old fashioned.

I love seeing my library of books and looking at them to decide what I want to read.

To me, I get more satisfaction from reading a book and turning the pages,

than holding a tablet and clicking a button.

While the tablets save space and aren't bulky,

I still like lugging a good book around.

I'm grateful for the authors, for the creativeness and hard work that goes into a book.

They get the satisfaction of entertaining their readers

and I have the satisfaction of being entertained.

I have thought multiple times about trying to write a book only to realize,

I'm not creative or eloquent enough.

So I tip my hat to those people out there that can not only write books,

but write books that can suck a reader in and keep them enthralled,

 turning pages furiously to the very end.