Books play an important role in our life. "Books and friends should be few but good," says an English proverb.
Books are our friends in a real sense. They demand nothing from us. They give us plenty of joy. We also learn a lot from them. They take us into a different world of imagination.
Books are not only entertainment. They help us in self-education, and also to imagine the future, to look into the past. Books develop our intellect, our soul.
As for me, I like to read books in my free time. Books help me to go away from life problems, to get into another world. I like various literature directions and authors. It depends on my mood which book I take to read.
Sometimes it can be a detective story or romantic novel; sometimes it can be only a short story or fairy tales.
Every book gives birth to special inner world in my mind and in my soul.
One of my favourite books is a story by O.Henry “The Gift of the Magi['meɪʤaɪ]”.
The plot alone—a young woman sells her long beautiful hair to buy her husband a fob chain for his prized watch, only to discover that he has sold his watch to buy a set of tortoiseshell['tɔːtəʃʃel] combs for her vanished hair—is enough to make the story a classic about the spirit of Christmas.
I like to imagine main characters of my favorite books, their clothes, and faces. It is difficult for me to leave the characters in the end of the books.
