Old Books

You know why I like old used books?
Sometimes I find people have written short notes worth mentioning of a selection in the margin. A memory.
Some pages are worn on the edges from age.
When I hold an old used book, I do it with more care and can enjoy it while cozying up in that overstuffed chair.
From time to time I lift my eyes from the pages to view the sky through the window nearby and find that I can reach the stars that seemed so far away, I can fly a fantasy, or ride the rainbow and perhaps even find I have uncovered all the secrets that lay beyond the magnificent beyond.

"My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. "

~Thomas Helm