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I have my favorites to study and my favorites to read for fun. I have books I’d sell my soul to read again for the first time, and books that feel new each time I reread them. I have my favorite book I love to hate, and my favorite book I hate to love.”
“I didn’t say my favorite genre is romance. I said I read romance when I want to get away from the world. When I want to feel comforted and comfortable. I read books like yours when I want to live more deeply in it. When I want some discomfort to remind me that we all experience uncomfortable things and live through them. When I want to feel things more honestly.”
“Did you know,” I continue, “that as books decompose, the paper releases a chemical compound similar to vanilla, and that’s why old books smell so good?”
Even though teaching isn’t exciting most of the time, and sometimes it can be complete drudgery, we continue to do it to make the future a little better and brighter.
