The Story
Have you ever read a book that you never wanted to end? Have you ever been so gripped by a story that you just wanted to be in it forever?
These books are rare–the ones that capture your attention so. You think you are prepared for what you’re in for; perhaps you have read the book jacket or it was recommended by someone you know. But as you carefully and hesitantly open to the first page, a part of you hopes that this will be one of those stories: a saga that will carry you away, that will leave you changed… that you will remember forever. Often, it doesn’t take long to realize what you have in your hands. You are immediately captured by the story, the prose, the promise.
You can’t put it down. You are drawn to it. You stay up all night enthralled by the story within. You lose all sense of time. All you notice–all you anticipate–is the turn of the next page. When you have to put it down for just a moment, your fingers linger on the pages and you carefully remember your place. And when you return, you embrace the story once again.
As you feel yourself become a part of the story, it becomes a part of you. It may inspire you, it may move you to tears, it may even anger you. The more passionate your reaction to the story, the greater its impression. And that’s when you know you’ve got a good one.
That’s how I want it to be with you.