How has your reading changed?

[Salacia Deloresista]

My mom read The Hobbit to me when I was 5 or so, before I could read properly on my own. I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was 11. Since then, I've read them many, many times, but in the last few years have slacked off a bit. In the beginning, they were just stories. Really awesome stories, but I'd do things like skip the songs to get to the next piece of plot line or description.

Not anymore.

I can't bear to write in my beautiful books. The ones I first started reading were some insanly old editions that my mom read when she was younger. I recently recieved my own set as a present from a friend, and as soon as my books and I are reunited, they will be filled with lovingly placed highlights and underlines and notes. I also have a huge number of notebooks where I copy out quotes that I like, and things like the elvish and dwarvish rune system from the apencices. They're not so much books for me anymore, but lifestyle guides, more important than any vogue or cosmogirl ever could be.