I've become aware...

Recently I’ve noticed that no one actually reads this blog…except for me. And really, that’s fine. I don’t write it for you. I write it for me. That’s the point, right? So while I will continue to keep everyone updated on my Contor blog, this blog remains reserved for my innermost musings. I think that this is why no one reads them. I don’t think they make as much sense to anyone else as they do to me. And that’s ok too.
Here is my latest musing:
Last night I finished reading The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley (I highly recommend it). It’s basically about a little old man (Mr. Mifflin) and his bookshop. There are characters who are rich and a narrator who is hilarious, but this is not the point—I believe—of this book. One thing I’ve always firmly believed (and still, to a degree, do) is that there is a vivid difference between books for entertainment and ‘literature.’ (yes, I’m one of those). This is where Morley and Mifflin got together to teach me. Does it matter? Does it matter if I’m reading Dickens or Meyer? To a degree, yes. One is considered canon and the other is not. But in today’s world where books take too long to satisfy us compared to the rest of life’s instant gratifications, I don’t think it matters what is being read, as long as reading is being done. I thank Rowling and Meyer; while I still think Rowling has power and complexities that far outshine Meyer’s overly adverb-ed and adjective-fied writing, both achieved the same goal: they caused kids to read. That’s the point. That’s the lesson. Mifflin says “The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never Mind! Printer’s ink is the greater explosive: it will win.” How true. The pen is mightier than the sword. It has not only the power to destroy, but the power to create; and therein lies the true power to everything. If you disagree, or you think books are a waste of time, I suggest following one other tidbit of Mifflin’s advice: “It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour glass, to let the particles run the other way.”