From: Clark, Mary <mary.clark>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:11:55 -0700

Maggie wrote:
 
 << What's unfortunate is that we can never go back in time and read a book in an earlier stage of our lives!>>
  And I'd like to ask the experts: Is it only in childhood that we can get lost in a book? As a child, I'd be so transported into another world by a book that my mother used to half-jokingly shout, "Come back!" to get my attention. I see students in my library so absorbed in their reading that their class leaves without them, and I startle them when I call their names. Yet I can't recall being that engrossed in a book since high school, and I've read thousands of wonderful books since then.
  Do we lose that ability to disappear in a book as we age? Or is this fierce concentration I'm nostalgic merely a lack of reading fluency, that fades as we become more fluent readers? Please don't tell me it's just me!
  Mary
  Mary Clark Library Media Tech I La Costa Meadows Elementary School Carlsbad, CA USA 760-290-2128 Mary.clark at smusd.org
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