MJ and I have been blogging buddies for some years. She has delightful posts and has impressed me many times with her responses to readers. But this post really nailed the importance of reading and what it teaches us through the journeys writers take us on. I am thrilled to share it with you. Most of you know MJ already, but if you don’t, check out her blog. Thanks MJ!
Renee Johnson is the author of Herald Angels, Acquisition, and The Haunting of William Gray. She is currently working on a Young Adult novel, while editing a suspense novel which has international flair–an homage to her love of travel and foreign food. She lives on a farm in North Carolina with her husband, Tony Johnson, and two very spoiled German shepherds named Hansel and Gretel.
Sunday morning, coffee’s hot; it’s hazy and cold outside. There’s a whoosh as the furnace kicks on. One lone squirrel scampers through the snow in search of something for his winter larder.
The hardest decision of my time off lies before me: which book to start next.
Last weekend, when all the kids and grands were here, our grand-daughter found my box of children’s books and happily marched herself over to my big leather chair, curled up and read. Hubbs told me later, as he came in from outside, he caught a glimpse of her there in my chair, leg tucked under just as I do. Head tilted just so. The resemblance gave him pause. And me ~ joy.
Some read because they have to ~ she reads because she wants to. And my heart swells in quiet recognition of a girl who reads.
“You should date a girl who…
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Thanks for reblogging this. I had lost my connection to MJ and resubscribed. WordPress ….
Glad to reconnect you two!