Further Up and Further In

Reading with my sister and friend If you know me at all, you know I love to read and I mean, love to read. I've learned that reading is one of the rhythms of my life I need in order to function. It's up there with eating and sleeping for me. Anyways, I've read goodness knows how many thousands of books in my 16 years of being able to read and I love tracking the characters in the books. My childhood was living through the eyes of Anne Shirley of Green Gables and entering the magical world of Harry Potter with my dad and sister. I fell in love with Frodo, Aragorn, Arwen, and Eowyn. I've read and re-read the Chronicles of Narnia, gaining new appreciation and insight from every reading. The characters go through adventures and numerous conflicts. They change, grow, and develop which is a huge part of the beauty and brilliance of good writing. But the characters remain the same throughout the book. The Frodo you meet in the Shire at the beginning is still the same Fro