One Happy Mom

I am so happy for my son Quinn right now.  He is reading The Hunger Games  and can't put it down.  Nothing pleases me more as a mother and a reader than to see one of my boys walking around with his nose in a book, oblivious to the world around him.  At this moment in time, Quinn wold rather be reading this book than playing the Wii, his Nintendo DS, or sitting in front of any other kind of screen.  Oh, joy!  And last night, when I told him it was time to turn out his light, it was music to my ears when he replied, "But Mom, I only have six more chapters!"

Books transport us to other times and other places and allow us to meet, even become new people.  I know some characters in books better than I know my friends.  I have visited Pemberly in England even though I have never physically been in Europe.  Right now Quinn is in Panem having the adventure of his life, hanging out with Katniss, Rue, Peeta and Gale, and there is nowhere I'd rather have him be.