Books
My favorite pastime thing to do is reading, and it has brought so many great people into my life sharing their lists of favorites and discussing the books we read.
Though it made me realize that not everyone reads for pleasure, I have noticed an increasing number of people who like to only read educational books and self-improvement ones, which is interesting to me (One of those people is one of my favorite people in the world), the reason for that is: if you work almost 18 hours a day every day wouldn’t you wanna chill and escape to a different world where life is more fun lols, instead of reading something that to me personally sounds that more work.
Don’t get me wrong I do have a section in my bookcase of educational books that I read when I need to improve something in my person or to develop my goal toward cybersecurity world domination hahaha but other than that, after a long day of work all I want to read is Tolstoy, Jane Austin, Dostoevsky, Dickens, George Orwell, and William Faulkner (even though my first language is Arabic I don’t read in it). And one of my top favorites nowadays writer is Vince Flynn who created the Thriller of Mitch Rapp :)
To me personally, Books offer an escape from a mind-numbing world where you wake up every morning, go to work, come back home at a late hour and go to sleep to repeat the whole cycle all over again the next day, if you have a good imagination you will be able to live each and every story as if you are there.
In other words, it’s like the light at the end of the tunnel which is your working day to look forward to living in a different world in a different city every evening, be it being a spy as in Life undercover: Coming to age in the CIA, a blind girl in Paris trying to navigate life without her father as in the case of all the light we cannot see, or the life of an abused wife who finally had enough and took matters in her own hands as in the case of “Behind Closed Doors”, its a world filled with new adventures without having to leave your couch :) That is all I’m saying.
