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Let\u2019s welcome back monthly columnist\u00a0Catharine Bramkamp<\/a>\u00a0as she shares with us \u201cThis Year Get Lost\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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I am very fortunate to be able to attend the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.<\/strong>\u00a0During the week I see about\u00a0six plays. In-between the plays, I keep busy with fine dining, shopping and reading. A lot of reading.<\/p>\n

One day I\u00a0had tickets for\u00a0Sense and Sensibility<\/em>\u00a0at 1:30\u00a0and\u00a0The Book of Will<\/em>\u00a0in the evening. That morning I took a walk\u00a0in the Lithia Park and ended up at the used book store. (What? A bookstore here? How did I end up here?)<\/p>\n

Satisfying Experience<\/h2>\n

Part of a full, satisfying experience, the theater, dance, travel\u00a0is reading about it. Where or whenever I am, I search for a\u00a0book that describes the place,\u00a0the experience, and the art I\u2019m enjoying.<\/p>\n

One of the ways I enjoy the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, for instance, is to find books that enhance or reflect on the plays.<\/p>\n

This year my used bookstore haul included two Virginia Woolf books (one by, and one about), yet another biography of Shakespeare (as you can imagine, there are many bios of Shakespeare scattered over Ashland), a biography of Samuel Pepys (I had just traveled to London that spring) and book on\u00a0Women, Art and Society.<\/p>\n

All the books were relevant to what I was watching and experiencing and relevant to my interests (cue more Woolf.)<\/p>\n

Reading and haunting used book stores was one of the few sporting activities my parents shared with us kids.<\/strong>\u00a0My parents did not watch TV, they read.<\/p>\n

I realize now that in the 70s there was far more sex and violence in the paperbacks my dad exchanged by the bag full at the local used bookstore than was available on TV. So let\u2019s not assume reading was necessarily an\u00a0erudite choice.<\/p>\n

The advantage of a book was that it delivered entertainment anywhere and under any conditions. Reading for hours at a time in my room was accepted. Reading in the hot car was acceptable. Reading outside was okay since you were also getting some fresh air.<\/p>\n

No matter where I was, I always could get lost in a book. I wanted to get lost in a book. It was the goal.<\/p>\n

Today it\u2019s called deep reading since getting lost is no longer allowed<\/strong>. Which is too bad and another subject for another blog.<\/p>\n

Thoughts Inspired<\/h2>\n

What inspired my thoughts on books was seeing the play\u00a0The Book of Will.<\/em>\u00a0The plot of the play is that a\u00a0few years after Shakespeare\u2019s death, his surviving friends gathered and publish Shakespeare\u2019s plays, which was a more complicated project than they expected.<\/p>\n

The moral of the story, of course, is that if these intrepid friends hadn\u2019t hunted down and collected all the scene notes from Hamlet to Winter\u2019s Tale, we would have lost Shakespeare forever.<\/p>\n

We need stories,<\/strong> and we need books.<\/strong> We still desire tangible, immutable objects packed with memories: not only of the plot, but also of where we purchased the book, where we read the book, the ideas\u00a0led us to that book over there, that blog over here.<\/p>\n

But getting lost in a book is still a good description. Non-fiction illuminates. The non-fiction author delivers insight, surprises and new ideas. We don\u2019t get lost in non-fiction. That Shakespeare biography I purchased? I know how it ends. If you get lost in a non-fiction book, the author is not doing her job.<\/p>\n

But fiction? Fiction is all about getting lost.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

How many books do you stay with just because you want to see how the author will wrap all this up? You do not have a map, you do not have directions, you just stay with it and continue the journey. That is fun.That is getting lost but racing to the end anyway.<\/p>\n

We elect to get lost in the novel\u2019s world.<\/strong>\u00a0We long for the simplicity of life with Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. We want to build another little house on the prairie. We crave just one more adventure on Disc World.<\/p>\n

We read books to go there. A mystery set in Cambodia. A saga set in Naples.<\/p>\n

Where do I want to go? When do I want to go? What era appeals on this dark night?<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n

\"Catharine<\/a>Catharine Bramkamp<\/a> is the co-producer of\u00a0Newbie Writers Podcast <\/a>that focuses on newer writers and their concerns. She is a successful writing coach<\/a>, Chief Storytelling Officer, and author of a dozen\u00a0books<\/a>\u00a0including the Real Estate Diva Mysteries series<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0The Future Girls series<\/a><\/em>. She\u00a0holds two degrees in English and is an adjunct university professor. After fracturing her wrist, she has figured out there is very little she is able to do with one hand tied behind her back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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We sooth ourselves with books.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There is a reason we have favorite movies. We also have favorite books, and we pull them out to get lost, or to learn again the moral of the story, or just to have a good cry.<\/p>\n

Binge TV\u00a0and deep reading is almost the same.<\/strong> More often than not we become attached to the characters, we want to know what happens to them, we want to watch their adventures play out.<\/p>\n

True with deep reading as well. Except with different results. Our deep reading is, apparently, beneficial. As if we who routinely get lost in books\u00a0don\u2019t already know this.<\/p>\n

We know the\u00a0benefits of mentally going away, of escaping through reading. Our brain thinks we are there — in Naples, in that time, in that place. It\u2019s a cheap thrill, an inexpensive world trip.<\/p>\n

This new year, give yourself\u00a0permission to read. Pick an afternoon and pick up a novel. Ask the question, where is this going and how will this finish? Don\u2019t return until you\u2019ve reached the end.<\/p>\n

Want to plot out your entire novel in three days? It\u2019s doable!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us in Mendocino or Tahoe this year for Plotting Madness Boot Camp!\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.writingforlifeworkshops.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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