Find your own
quiet space,
where you are free from distractions.
A blanket is good as well.

Clear your thoughts.
Let yourself s
                     i
                       n
                          k
                             into the depths of the pages.
Become familiar with this paper world.

Read it slowly.
Read it so slowly that you can feel time passing by,
as if a clock was ticking backwards.
Savor each and every word.
Don’t let anything slip past your eyes.
Hold each sentence in your head
as if every little part of the plot is key.

Meet the characters,
travel with them,
feel for them.
Fight Voldemort with Harry Potter.
Visit Mr. Willy Wonka with Charlie and his grandfather.
Follow Scout as she brings us through life in the 1930s.
Learn empathy, passion, love,
and sadness and despair too.

Journey. Explore.
Become as familiar with these magical lands as you would your own backyard.
There’s Narnia, with its never ending, cursed winter and Aslan, the great lion.
Or travel back to Ancient Greece and be named a hero fighting mythical beasts.
You can be anybody, anywhere.
Travel from tundras to deserts in pure minutes.
There is a
land
somewhere out there for everybody.

A book is only a geode,
rough on the outside,
waiting to be cracked open,
there to admire as long as someone is there to admire it.