"'My grandfather always says that's what books are for...to travel without moving an inch." ~Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
As The Namesake was required reading for AP Literature, and AP Literature is, shockingly enough, a course about books, I thought it apt to shape the theme of my blog around the idea that one can travel wherever they'd like through reading. The backdrop of the inside of a foreign building, the wordplay between "word" and "world", the font I'm writing in-Georgia for a sense of clear, non-spontaneous purpose, and orange, for excitement and enthusiasm (according to Kendra Cherry)-all unite under the cohesive theme of travel.
If not for words written on a page years before I was born, my world would consist of nothing but Mason, Ohio. It's a rare occasion that my family and I go further than 15 miles from home. As it is, I can skip the bag-packing, the hotel-booking, the plane trips for hours on end, and pick up a book instead.
So though this blog may only be for English class, though its purpose is purely academic, though these posts are graded assignments that I'm required to do, my hope is that when a viewer scrolls through the page, as they're taking in the background and color scheme and style, a sudden, unexplainable sense of excitement will reach them, and with it, the urge to keep on reading.
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