What is a book?

 A book is an escape from reality, it takes you to new fascinating places... it can take you to different worlds, it can make you feel different emotions, it can make you a different person. With today's technology, reading has basically vanished into oblivion. We read on electronics, Ipads, kindles, phones, it's sad; we never appreciate the true value of reading anymore. Having a book in your hands is so personal; it feels like you want to cherish the author's words into your soul. It feels like you have a personal connection with the author, like you are carrying a legacy. Reading can fix you, if you're sad, if you're lonely, the pages can be your new world, and you can feel it in your heart, the author's words. Reading is the most magnificent thing that humans can ever experience. I agree with Nancy Jo Sales, that books really do remind us that we exist and show us how we have lived. It’s always exciting to go to a book store and browse around the shelves, with a huge variety of books and their brilliant covers. Feeling as if you are in the world of the authors, you can do anything, be anyone. If you take the easy way out, the electronic way, you lose the feeling, you fade away, the happiness isn't there. The pages are usually off, and like Tom Piazza said “You get no sense of the scale of things , of the nature of the artist’s ambition…”. Overall the most important thing in a book what it teaches you. Whether you received a new insight on a particular topic, or experienced a lot of emotions, which helped you understand yourself better.  No matter in what form the book is, you should be able to travel to new places, learn new things and realize that life isn't only what you see around you but so much more because books make life worth living on so many levels. As William Nicolson said “We read to know we are not alone, and the fact is that we never are, if we have an angelic stack of pages in our presence.”