...For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate with his capacity for wonder...
Mitchel read the last page before sighing and closing his book. He always seemed to be able to be caught up in the experience of reading and that book was no exception. The young man slipped The Great Gatsby into the return slot with a soft thump. He looked around the library and picked up a pencil from his desk, beginning to tap a beat using that in his right hand and his bare left hand.
What to read next...something that I haven't read a lot...
Mitchel stretched and oh-so-casually slipped his hand into his pants pocket, pulling out his PFP.
Or maybe the reading can wait just a little bit?
There was no harm in just relaxing a bit and playing something, right? He stopped and thought for a moment.
On the other hand, there was that new book that everyone's been talking about on some of the social networking sites and that's getting a movie. Wow, I think I just described any YA book in like the last 2 years.
He crouched his feet against the desk and pushed off, turning a bit to wheel his chair to the recently shipped books. It was always a bad habit that once the new books were laminated, Mitchel couldn't resist reading one before putting them out. He grabbed the book he was thinking about.
"The Fault in Our Stars, huh?"
He turned it over and read the back, listening to the critics talk about poignancy and all the other words that are usually reserved for good novels. Considering that, this one had to be at least decent, right?
He opened to the first page and began to read.
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death. ...