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For the Book Lovers Soul

The Book lover

By Elijah DavisPublished 9 months ago 2 min read

The Book Lover sat at the kitchen table in his apartment. He was wearing a sweater and brown styled pants sporting the Cz of the sports team he worked for! Oddly enough The Book Lover worked in the office and normally wore a suit and tie at work. The Book Lover sat tall with his shoulders back and his back completely straight. nedtic body supported by a stool. In his hands was a book and The Book Lover's eyes were scanning the page word on the pages furiously. His apartment was completely silent and The book Lover seemed still. if only his rapidly moving eyes could make the noice of an engine . as they sped around the pages. His body sat still in the kitchen, at the table, on a stool, but mind was far far away. He seemed so still and serine one missing the book in his hand may assume that this individual was in a deep meditative state. Deep in his eyes you could see joy, but the joy couldnt have been comin from his stone-silent, nicely furnished kitchen, his joy was coming from his book. But to the Book Lover it was not just a book, because it waas his favorite book in the netire world. He had just began this book the Book Lovers love journey with books began much earlier on

before we can jump in The Book Lovers love journey with his new book, we have to rewind to long ago when The Book Lover first fell in love with reading.

When The Book Lover was groeing up he learned to read before he went to school by his mother. The various learning activites and videos meant for older students in addition to rading with his mother nightly, The Book Lover eased into lteracy at a very young age.

Because the book lover learned so easily and withou struggle he immediately took reading for granted.

When the book lover was in the first grade he spent the entire semster pretending he could not read. When the teacher would call on him and aske him to read what the Book Lover conidered as boring baby sentences and would refuse. The teachert began to stop calling onThe Book Lover after The book lover who was a young child at the time was very pleased with himself. He refused to read or fill ourt his reading worksheets.

Since the main testing objectives focused on reading and writing skills The book Lover spent several weeks and soon even over a month sitting back and relaxing. The Boo Lover thought he was awesome and enjoyed the freedom of only doing what he wanted, and The book Lover had been decideing that he wanted to do absolutely nothing. Day after day for entirely too long to be acceptable The Book Lover would sit back and relaxing spending his time drawing and goofing off untill lunch and recess.

The Book Lover was lving the dream, meanwhile his teacher was living a nightmare.. She was not lvivng up to her own expectatins and dissapointed herself esach day. She constantly tried to rationalize her own choices to only herslef.

"there is no standardized testing for his age group" she tried to excuse away her inaction. The truth is the adversity had shocked the teacher because...

Childhood

About the Creator

Elijah Davis

Author of ”Betsy the Bird“. Building a connected universe of stories across multiple genres. What you’re reading here is part of something bigger.

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