Why I can't read books...

Why am I not  a book reader you might ask. WHY? I will tell you why.....

I GET WAY TO INVOLVED IN THE BOOKS.

I have been in a never ending war since the Hunger Games came out. People loved the books, but I was always a little beside myself at the thought of reading them. I don't know why, but I just didn't care to read them. Time after time people told me I should read them.... and I just won't. Well as Derek left for the summer I found myself unable to sleep. One day a friend suggested the Hunger games again, and I finally caved in.

Before I started reading our friends had told me that even though these books are fictional, there is still some truth to them.

I took that comment into my heart as I read these books. I think it took me about 3 weeks to read all three of the books. I just got so involved in whether any of this story could be more then just fiction that I had to know what would happen next and how it all would end.

As I was at work tonight I began thinking (and this is where I get too involved) about the story. I thought about the story and how disturbing it is to me that people would get entertainment out of such terrible things! Then I realized that I was just like them....I know way to involved, but I thought if stuff like this is really happening in the World, here I am getting entertainment out of these books after just passing judgement on these fictional characters.

I was very disturbed by this thought.....

I had to know more about these books. I came home after work and read an interview that the author had done and found out that the story line of the Hunger games follows the lines of Greek mythology, which put me at ease. Then she went on to say that a lot of the information she had about the battles was from her father's life of being in the active military and going to Vietnam. She talked about how her father would take them to battle locations and tell her and her siblings why exactly the battle was taking place, how it took place, and what the consequences of the battle were.

So there is the truth to the hunger games.... her ideals for this book came from a life her father lived. She also talked about how her father and family survived during the depression by teaching him about food in the wild, hunting and living off of nature.

I know that lots of fictional books are based off of some truth, but it is just hard for me to grasp as I live such an amazing life. I have so many freedoms and opportunities that I just can't imagine.

So as you can see instead of being happy at the ending of this book and going to bed content with the books, I am here writing my emotions that this book has given me down, because I can't fall asleep!  Oh my goodness, like I said I just get way too involved to even enjoy a fictional book!

If you don't get attached to your books emotionally like me I would suggest the Hunger Games, I did get through them in 3 weeks so they had to have been pretty good!