{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/books/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"Rope and Tire","author":"Suprada Urval"}},"markdownRemark":{"id":"1a01f140-4473-58ff-a7b3-536ae34350b5","excerpt":"This week, my usual posts are suspended as I take part in the Your Turn Challenge. As a part of this challenge, those of us who participate are committing to a daily post for seven days, starting today January 19th to January 25. You can read the…","html":"<p>This week, my usual posts are suspended as I take part in the <a href=\"https://yourturnchallenge.strikingly.com/\">Your Turn Challenge</a>. As a part of this challenge, those of us who participate are committing to a daily post for seven days, starting today January 19th to January 25. You can read the posts of other participants <a href=\"https://yourturnchallenge.tumblr.com/\">here</a>. Why am I taking part? Because – <a href=\"https://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/01/getting-unstuck-a-one-week-challenge.html\">I want to get unstuck</a>.</p>\n<p>*<strong>*</strong>*<strong>*</strong>*<strong>*</strong>*<strong>*</strong>*<strong>*</strong>*<strong>*</strong>*<strong>*</strong></p>\n<p>Books are so amazing and I am grateful for this gift – the love of reading – bestowed upon me.</p>\n<p>The world is never boring with a book in hand. While reading the book, a good book, the ‘real’ world around you starts taking on the hues and colors of the book. I start noticing around me, what the author describes and writes in the book. In those really good books where the characters are powerfully and beautifully put forth, I have realized that I start to subtly behave similar to the character I most identify with. When I first realized this, I was taken aback, shocked and a little spooked. But I have now accepted this part of reading and it has become a fun game to be aware of my behaviors and notice when I manifest the book-influenced behavior.</p>\n<p>It is not just the reading of books. I am most content working, studying writing at my desk, where I can see my beloved books. Over the years I have been trying to not just accumulate books – but only those I really really love. But what can I do if I love too many books?</p>\n<p>There is a satisfaction in holding a paper book and reading it. But I enjoy reading on my kindle too. And my smartphone and my PC. I think I read flyers and road signs – anything with words, I can’t help but read.</p>\n<p>I wonder if the other readers out there – do you react so emotionally and viscerally to books as well? Is your world when you are reading a book different from the world otherwise? How are your visceral reactions to a book/ I would love to know.</p>","frontmatter":{"title":"Books","date":"January 21, 2015","url":"/books/","tags":["Thoughts","your-turn-challenge"]}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"/books/","previous":{"fields":{"slug":"/2015-01-20-on-relationship-perspectives/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"On relationship perspectives","url":"/on-relationship-perspectives/","tags":["Thoughts","your-turn-challenge"]}},"next":{"fields":{"slug":"/2015-01-22-on-exercise/"},"frontmatter":{"title":"On exercise","url":"/on-exercise/","tags":["Thoughts","your-turn-challenge"]}}}},"staticQueryHashes":["3128451518","426816048"]}