I love reading, but when do any of us get the time to read ?

Films are great.  Netflix series are awesome.  They are fast fixes for our desire for escapism but, to me, they are single dimensional.  By that I mean you only see at face value what’s going on and, believe me, these days the imagery is fantastic but what we don’t get, is the in depth insight as to what the characters are seeing or feeling or thinking from within.

I, like most people, have so much more going on inside our minds that those around us never see, or hear, or know about unless we take the time to tell people what we are feeling at any given moment in time.   Maybe this is because our minds are so complex and powerful that we can have a thousand thoughts in just a millisecond and would never have the time to express those thoughts to another person before the memories have faded away and we have conjured up a thousand more.

A well written novel tells the story, just like a film or series but, with the thoughts and concepts from within the minds of the characters which gives us a more detailed understanding of how and why a character does a particular thing.  after reading a good book, especially one that has been made into a film, I feel one has a greater understanding of the characters that the author creates.  I guess we could look upon books as being ‘multi-dimensional’ mind movies.