Eclipse

Needless to say, anyone who knows me know of my love of the written word and my ever growing library of books I can’t bare to part with. Once I have read a book, I almost feel like I have a new friend that I can always turn to when looking for a moments peace or an escape from what can be a crazy life at times. I want to be a greener person and share the love with others but the thought of giving my books away makes me a little sad – and a little embarrassed now I’ve said that out loud.

When Grant and I moved in together, the only reading he did for recreation was a little newspaper and a bunch of cycling and triathlon magazines. Not a book in sight. The thought of suggesting he try a novel would have him look at me like I just asked him to explain the mating rituals of the Dumbo Octopus, “You want me to what!?”, he would say with disbelief.

I would read novels and be dying to discuss them with someone (apart from my mother who shares my love of reading) but I resigned myself to the fact that Grant would never be that person. It was just something we didn’t have in common.

But then one day he came home from a business trip with a massive, bible sized book he had found in the airport bookstore. The Bourne Trilogy. All of the first three novels thoughtfully published in one book. He told me how he planned to read the entire series and how smart of him to find one book with the first three. How smart indeed! Unfortunately on another business trip as he was halfway through the first novel, he left the book on the plane and never saw it again. I am still amazed he managed to lose a book so large that I would have used as a door stop.

But his appetite had been whet and before I knew it he had picked up Twilight and began reading it. And then New Moon. And then Eclipse until he had finished the entire series and then promptly went out and found himself an entire series of books he devoured in no time. My anti-book fiance had caught the reading bug and I fell in love with him all over again and his infectious enthusiasm.

So now when we go to see Eclipse this weekend, I will have someone to whinge with when they mess up the story or perhaps when they do something extra thoughtful that makes me fall in love with the characters all over again. I know we differ on our music tastes and our movie choices amongst other things, but for those moments when we do have a mutual interest and can share it together, it makes me appreciate and love him even more.