The Books I’d Carry Into Loneliness

There is one thing that has always made me feel safe and for some reason wanted and that’s books. Typical, and laugh if you want. But books have never hurt me, laughed at me, or punched me in the face so I’ll take them over real people anytime.

I use to dream of getting older and having enough money to afford a room with books from the ceiling to the floor, all four walls.

Can your not understand the majesty and magic of books. The world has never wanted me, but books have never rejected me. They’ve taken me to more places then I could ever go physically. They have enlightened my mind and given me answers when no one else could answer my questions. But of course they are still flawed, all authors are flawed. Everyone writes with selfish needs. Trying to convince you that whatever they are saying is true and right. Everyone is selling something.

There’s still nothing better than a good book. Here is a list of the top ten books I carry into loneliness:

1. Othello by William Shakespeare
2. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
3. Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
4. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
6. Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
7. The Waste Land, The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
8. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
9. Dracula by Bram Stoker
10. The Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Obviously countless other works I could name that I’d bring with me on a island … but this isn’t an island so….

~ by K.I. on July 3, 2008.