Musing Monday asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer each week…

I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ___, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week.

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: What made you fall in love with reading?

The stories and the worlds that books took me too. For as long as I can remember I have always loved reading. My parents started me on some of the classics like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and I just took off from there. Like all kids, I read hop on pop and other such simple books when I was tiny but I did not stay satisfied with them for long. I wanted bigger books and more exotic stories, along with the enjoyment of comics sometimes as well. I spent many a happy summer reading a collection of comic strips in a book from the library, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbs were favorites, still are really.

My love of reading really is that simple, I love a good story. I love living in a world that is apart from mine. I feel the saying you see on meme’s all over the internet these days is true, those who don’t read only live one life. Those who do read can live thousands. A good book will always transport me into it and I feel as if I am walking right along side the characters of the book, living the journey with them whatever may come. It is one of my deepest hopes that I never lose that joy, that I never lose that passion and ability to be transported into another world and live an entirely different life for the span of time it takes me to read the book.