When I was a teenager I read a novel that just stuck with me. Never mind the books that we are told to read in school but this was one my Dad had read and I found. I opened the small paperback book and with almost every page my father had wrote notes, underlined sentences that were obviously important to him. Footnotes if you will.
To this day I still talk about this book decades later and once had a conversation with a friend who was a librarian. No one else would know what I was talking about except her. It was refreshing to know I am not the only person who knows of this author.
Should you ever get the chance, I encourage you to read this book, if you haven't already.
I wish I still had that little book to just pick up and read at times. It was because of that book I began my journey of reading. If you read reviews and see someone say "this will book stay with me for a long time", I get it. I know what that person is referring to. That is what a book is suppose to do and when I read a good book I just get lost in the words and let's face it, get lost in the world we have today. A good author can do just that and a well written book will stay with the reader for a long time.
Whether it is a novella or novel, look for me to add to my collection. If you search author pages or the author's websites you will find that some may offer free excerpts from a novel. I think it's a great way to get a glimpse of the author's writing and for that I say Thank You to all the author's who do so.
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