Daily writing prompt

What’s the longest book you’ve ever read?

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I am the book.

I have been reading myself for years.

Some chapters I understood immediately.

Others required glasses.

Yet, I love every ridiculous edition and every badly written chapter.

There are pages I have reread so many times that I could recite them from memory, and others I turned too quickly because I wasn’t ready to understand what they meant.

There are characters I thought would remain until the end.

They didn’t.

There are chapters I was certain would ruin the entire story.

They didn’t either.

And perhaps that is what makes this the longest book I have ever read.

I am still becoming acquainted with the main character.

That is the trouble with a long book.

Eventually, you discover the author has changed.

I am the longest book I have ever read.

— Eleanor Grace/ TRC