Book Lovers

What is it about a book that attracts you? Are you drawn to the image on the cover? How about the size or shape of the book? Are you drawn to it because someone suggested you check it out. Maybe you heard about it in the paper or saw someone on the bus reading it and they were smiling.

Reader's tastes are as varying as chocolate, which is having a resurgence in its craft here in Seattle. Dark chocolate with 70% cacao, dark chocolate with 80% cacao, white chocolate, milk chocolate, milk chocolate with nugget, the list goes on just as book genres and appeals are concerned in the book lover's world. We have the obvious ones, like the fiction lovers, the non-fiction, the mystery lovers, westerns, urban fiction, young adult, true crime, and again the list goes on with the more obscure. And then comes the list of appeals, plot driven, character driven, witty...so many to name.

I think this is what makes the hobby of reading fun and exciting. When I see an interesting book arrive in our morning delivery it reminds me of the feeling when I am browsing the chocolate isle of the market. Which one should I try....dark chocolate with 70% cacao and jalapeno bits??? oh wait, what about this one...milk chocolate with crushed mint leaves. I get a wonderful rush and I can wait to get it while saving the other for my next time. I also never seem to run out of options too, making this one of the best hobbies to have.

Currently I am reading two books that are different kinds of chocolate. One is a YA book that I can't seem to get enough of: Graceling. The other is simply cracking me up: I Was Told There'd Be Cake. Simply decadent. Try a piece.