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the world through books

Between airplanes and hardbound books, our worlds can tell the same story

- By CEDRIC S. REYES Illustrati­on by LEE CACES

THE DOPEY BOYS, the boys with the hair that were always sticky with some thing or another; their tongues at the dopey boys stayed away bated breath of boys who were looking. The in mystery. I avoided the gym like the plague. In search of my place in a confused grade school

home not by choice as much as necessity. I was welcome only in a place where there was no one to tell me otherwise. In the pink library to happy and sad. I was disappoint­ed when I learned that photocopyi­ng couldn’t replicate the colors out of a National Geographic. I was thrilled whenever some Goosebumps paperback I hadn’t yet seen appeared on the allegedly lying about having already returned

I could never spend enough time sitting on out of my own accord. After the recess bell someone else probably made. Thus starts the

I loved the library because it offered me steeped me in the thoughts and experience­s could quit trying to force sense out of my own. Persistent attempts to escape my own mundanity brought me through thrillers and and the choices being made under those titles. I was distracted all the time. In spite of verbally I wanted to see all of it.

larger. It’s a little rougher and much less neat. more than a slap on the wrist from an old lady. turn away. But it does give us a chance to tune books and seeing the world through travel are alike in their earnestnes­s. They both allow us little kinder.

unquestion­ed and protected by the rule of law is a privilege that many of us should be grateful to have. It’s a privilege because travel gives us the chance to experience life as someone but I think it’s the opposite; few things test into the narrative of a book and hoping it doesn’t smother you.

up a book and zipping out of time zones in out the voice in my head and replace it with books that paint a picture of the world with both its characters and its readers depicted. These might be if we let each other in. I had none of stories might have given my damp little spirit some fresh air.

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