Dr. Anna Lembke

And I was hanging out with some moms at the elementary school, and they were talking about this book that they had read and, you know, how great it was.

So I was like, oh, well, what are you reading?

And they said, oh, it's The Twilight Saga.

And I thought, huh, okay, that sounds, you know, I've never read a book like that.

I'll go check it out.

So I go to the bookstore and I'm looking for it in the adult section.

They're like, no, no, you got to go find it in the kids.

I'm like, okay, the adolescent section.

So it's for those who don't know, it's a vampire romance series written for teenagers.

So anyway, I can't really explain it other than just saying I found it completely transporting.

And I read the whole series and then I went back and read it again and again and again.

And I just, it just put me in this place that was just, I don't know, I just didn't have to think about myself.

I didn't have to think about my life.

It was like a trance-like state, a very, very pleasurable.

More so than, you know, books I had been reading at the time.

So then I thought to myself, well, maybe there are other vampire romance novels.

So I go to my local library and lo and behold, there's like a whole shelf of them.

I mean, I know it's kind of weird that I didn't really like discover the romance genre until late in life, but I really hadn't.

So then I'm like, oh, so now I'm reading Anne Rice.

I'm reading all the romance novels that have to do with vampires.