[It's been a while since I watched the show, and I don't think I've actually seen all the episodes, but I do remember Myka's family ran a book store and she's into novels, so I'm taking that and running with it!]
One of Myka's happiest memories is of reading Possession the summer she was nineteen, curled up in the window seat of her parents' book store. It was, perhaps, the perfect book for her at that age, half of it being devoted to the Victorians she couldn't get enough of in her English classes, and the other half to people who read their books and poetry for a living, but still managed to have adventures and fall in love. She wanted her life to be like that--perhaps not in the specifics, but in the general outline. As she read, feeling like she was not just reading the words but breathing them in, just as she breathed in the smell of paper and ink from the store, she would occasionally drift into a daydream of the excitement that kind of life would hold. She couldn't wait to embrace it.
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Date: 2011-05-17 01:12 am (UTC)One of Myka's happiest memories is of reading Possession the summer she was nineteen, curled up in the window seat of her parents' book store. It was, perhaps, the perfect book for her at that age, half of it being devoted to the Victorians she couldn't get enough of in her English classes, and the other half to people who read their books and poetry for a living, but still managed to have adventures and fall in love. She wanted her life to be like that--perhaps not in the specifics, but in the general outline. As she read, feeling like she was not just reading the words but breathing them in, just as she breathed in the smell of paper and ink from the store, she would occasionally drift into a daydream of the excitement that kind of life would hold. She couldn't wait to embrace it.