Belle

I recently rewatched Disney's Beauty and the Beast.  I have since come to the conclusion that Belle and I are kindred spirits.

In one of the opening songs Belle is wandering through town with her nose in a book. She doesn't get water spilled on her head, and doesn't run into anybody. She enters the bookshop and the bookshop owner is surprised she's back so soon, only a day after she was last there.

That's me, in an out of the library constantly. I'm not so lucky with the not running into things. Well, I wasn't in eighth grade. One afternoon after school there were three of us walking home, side by side, we were all reading. I was on the edge nearest the curb. While preoccupied with my book I didn't notice a pedestrian sign that was right in front of me. so I ran into it.

But by ninth grade I was better. I was walking to school last year and there was a big yellow machine in the middle of the road. I was reading at the same time and didn't notice it. luckily some instict inside of me made me stop and look up from my book. the big yellow thing was about 2 inches from my face. So like I said I was getting better.

Belle and I are very definitely kindred spirits. She and I are very much the same. and I can't resist a good book, much like her.