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Wanting to Escape

So, I am now a few days into the new year, still plugging away at the Harry Potter series, and still wondering what the year is going to look like for my reading habits and phases. I am starting to hit the point with Harry Potter where I am ready to be done and to move onto a new book or series. But I am in the middle of book 6 and just have book 7 left after that, so I really want to finish it rather than stopping so close to the end. I am, however, starting to think about what I want to read next. What story I want to dive into. And honestly, I am not sure what I will actually end up picking. I have quite the TBR stack full of classics and discipleship books. But I'm not really feeling interested in any of them. Not sure why. Thinking I may be hitting one of the phases where I don't want to and won't read very much. Part of that I think is that I am once again being faced with having to clean, sort and pack my house in order to move to a new house or apartment, so I am incredibly distracted and torn between what I want to do and what I should do. And that certainly does not help me in deciding what I want to read next or even in focusing on finishing Harry Potter. But oh well. Such is life. Right?

To be honest, right now, all I want to do is read. But I can feel that desire starting to slip away as I keep plugging away at Harry Potter and looking at the things I should be doing. But right at this moment, all I want to do is escape into a book and not come out til I've finished. I want to escape into a book and find that when I finish all of the craziness of packing, moving, and the usual frustrations that go along with that will be done and a thing of the past. I want to escape into a book and find that the happy ending is real when I finish. That the frustrations or worries have disappeared while I was lost in the words of the story. But yet, I know that won't happen. I know that can't happen. But I sure wish it could and would. Right now, all I want to do is to escape. To hide from the things that I am frustrated by and the things that I am worried about and the things that make me angry. I just want to escape into a story and a world that is different than my own.

Is that awful of me? I certainly hope not.

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