Books Are Mindblastingly Entertaining!

Every so often I hear people complain about the price of a book.
I say, oh shut the f--- up. A book is a bargain.

I go to maybe 3 or 4 movies a year. When my kids were small, my husband and I did the math and found that one night at the movies cost us $100. We paid for parking or transit, babysitter fees plus treats for babysitter and kids, popcorn for us and the movie tickets.

I can’t bear to think of the movies that disappointed me. All that money down the drain.

Nowadays, you not only pay, you have to watch commercials! That is something I find extremely annoying. So the ads, the trailers and the movie itself takes about 2.5 hours, plus travel, that’s 3.5 hours. That’s more than $20 per hour’s worth of entertainment, and at least part of that experience is annoying!

A book costs anywhere from nothing (courtesy of your local library) to about $35, and there are all sorts of prices in between. I find that the average novel takes 24 to 30 hours to read. That could mean less than a buck per hour!

Movies and television are passive. You sit, you receive.
Books are active. You sit, you engage.

Some movies are memorable, but many readers find that movie-versions of books are not.

Movies and television can make you put on weight.

A good book can make you forget you were hungry. Or that lunch time has come and gone.

And sometimes that your plane has gone too.

When reading a really good book in an airport, always sit near the gate – just in case you don’t hear all the boarding calls and a gate attendant sees you sitting there, not moving except to turn the page.