Friday Forays in Fiction: At Home in the Story

Le village de livres de Marie Montard
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Have you ever been so into a story you felt as though you lived in it?

That has happened to me many a time with books but less and less as I get older.  My memories of the times that was typical are from ages 8 through 20 something.

Then something happened.  Not sure what.  But it was as if I had stepped outside and could only look in the windows from the street.

I read just as voraciously but seldom have the sense of living in the story anymore.

i want that back.  How do I get that back?

Hmmm.  Just had a thought: It was in my mid twenties when I started reading writing craft books and in my late twenties when i went back to school as an English Major, taking creative writing classes and literature classes.  I wonder...