My Desire To Read

Real reading required focus and complete attention. Reading shouldn’t be something that the reader isn’t in the mood for. The reader should be in the right mood for reading with no distractions around so that the book that the reader is reading can whisk his or her mind away straight into the

At this point in my life I find myself in an interesting predicament regarding my attitudes toward reading and writing; more so towards reading. Years ago I used to love reading books for pleasure but nowadays I find myself reading things that little to no effort to digest. This includes the very basic posts on facebook expressing one’s opinion on something or articles and threads on reddit discussing topics I find intriguing. Perhaps it’s the severe senioritis that has overcome me as I enter my last semester at Chapman University. As I’ve gotten lazier I can see it start to reflect in my everyday life. Deep down I still love to read but I rarely find myself getting truly invested into the action unless it relates to something I am very

For myself reading has not always been my favorite thing to do. I can always read something if it is required for school. I usually do not read unless it is academic. However, if I find myself very interested in a specific book or type of reading, it is hard for me to put it down. I am usually interested in the genre of mystery or crime, and it seems to be hard for me to find those types of books. Time is also a factor that plays into my reading experience, sometimes it is hard for me to find time to sit down, relax and enjoy a book on my own time. To describe my academic and non-academic reading styles I created metaphors that I think represent the way I handle both of those styles of reading. Non-academic reading is like baking a cake, and academic reading is like working out and going to the gym.

My reading experiences have always been enjoyable. I love to read when I find an interesting book. It’s easy for me to be sucked into a book if the story catches my eye. I mostly like to read teen romance novels. They appeal to me simply because of my interest in a love story. My parents hate buying me books because they know I’ll be finished reading within a week or so. Reading has always been really easy to me. It seems almost natural to be sucked into other worlds. The words start to flow over the pages and suddenly it feels like I’m not even reading anymore. Unless I have to read a book for school or it doesn’t catch my attention, I might have a hard time bringing myself to read it.

A Majority of the time I will only read what I have been assigned because reading will not be my preference of task simply because I will lose focus and wonder off into thinking about what my girlfriend might be doing. My useful method that I discovered about myself when reading alone so I can remain focused is looking up summaries of the book like spark notes, before I read so I can understand the text more clearly. It is probably the worst thing to do because it does ruin the suspense or purpose of reading the book anyways, but it helps with remaining concentrated. I feel that I am this way because I am really picky with what I like to read, which in my case may be informative magazines like Men’s health that can teach me something useful. I don 't have the best experiences with reading, possibly because teachers never showed us what

I will restate that yes I do not have the passion or enjoy reading, but with reading being something always present in our lives this process makes it doable. Reading shouldn’t just be something we do because we have to, whether we find pleasure in it or not it should be something we retain. We don’t learn by doing nothing, we need to constantly be engaging our minds into literature or any work. This frequent jogging of the brain trains us to be more intellectual. Reading is great, but make sure you understand it. Take notes, do research, talk to others let the reading engulf your life for that time momentarily. Don’t dwell or harp on certain readings but allow it to be knowledge to our brains, making us a more well- rounded person. Reading has helped me not to be narrow minded on so many subjects: religion, culture, relationships, life. Reading has given be respect for the world our ancestors lived in, the world we live in and the world to come for our future

Because the lack of patience that I have, reading has become an unattainable task for me. When I attempt to read, I often get sidetracked or couldn't comprehend the content because the words are simply too complex. Eventually, I slowly lost interest on reading books. In addition, I struggle with searching for books that interest me.

I don't like to read because you just sit there and I like to move around or fidget. When I do read I like to read graphic novels like mangas, but the only reason why I read is because I have language class yeah I know boring right. I don’t like reading mostly because I'm a slow reader and this one time I only got about five pages read and my teacher thought I wasn't paying attention so I got in trouble. My weakness as a reader would be my fluency like I said before my fluency sucks! My strength in reading would be my comprehension that is what got me to a z level. My goal has a reader is to only read the amount of books that I need to and yes that is my goal. My goal has a reader in my life is to be able to comprehend to my highest potential

Two of the main reasons I think people read is for entertainment and for knowledge. From my personal life experience, I read for both reasons. I read book chapters at least three times a week if not more. I also read daily at work, to me this is more of the everyday reading we all do. For my education purposes I do read my college textbooks when instructed to do so, I like to stay on top of my studies and continue to grow my knowledge on different subject areas. To me everyone is a good reader. I don’t think we all embrace being a good reader in the same way. Some of us really just put ourselves down on being good readers. We all have a tendency of comparing ourselves to others. We often set a high standard for ourselves based on other people who we consider good readers. I don’t think that this is the correct approach to take when considering yourself a good or bad reader. We are all different, we do not have the same reading pace or same abilities to read the same books. Each individual is a good reader, it just takes time to be able to notice it and embrace it at its full

Throughout my entire life reading has been a fundamental tool that I use for research on homework and enjoyment; however, reading has been a negative for my life as well. In fact, when I was in grade school reading was a rather tedious chore for me to accomplish. When I was younger I would despise sitting still for long periods of time just to look at the countless pages and I would rather go outside and play with my friends; although, as I have aged my opinions of reading has completely changed. I could read for hours at a time if the subject is about topics that I enjoy or that will benefit me in the near future. When people think of reading they will most likely have the idea of novels and storybooks; whereas, I think of research, learning and reaching my full potential when it comes to writing essays.

Of my literacies, Reading is not my strongest area. However, I am able to figure out words I usually have a hard time figuring out. I am able to read between the lines and figure out exactly how the writer is using the word in context. However, I still have weaknesses when reading. I can easily get bored when reading. If I am not interested in the story I get bored very quickly. However, If I like the book, I am able to sit down and read for 5 hours straight. A good book to me is one that always has a lot of action, and there is always something that leaves the reader asking themselves a question. Also, books are just annoying because they are pretty fragile. Even a couple drops of rain could crinkle the pages. I actually learned to read before I

I had a hard time actually getting myself to sit down and read, but being put in so many stressful situations, it has helped me read whenever I wasn’t stressed. Now, I read every day and I don’t look at it as something I’m forcing myself to do. I love reading now, and it’s starting to spread to everyone around me. When I come home from school and I curl up with a book, my little brother has a tendency to go get one of his books, sit with me in his bean bag chair, and read with me too. When I go to work at a daycare, the kids always ask for reading time. They love doing their reading logs, and they don’t look at it as a requirement, they look at it as something they

I’ve never been one to read much outside of school without being assigned to do so. After looking back at my childhood I think I finally understand why. When you’re a student in elementary school teachers want you to be interested in reading and they tell you that it will make you smarter. Their approach to this is to assign you many readings during your early school years, have your parents sign that you actually did it, and make you write book reports about what you read. I remember when I was a kid I absolutely hated some of these exercises and absolutely loved some of these as well. I distinctly remember being in kindergarten and having to read a book to a high school student. The five year old version of me was more than embarrassed when my reading skills were not up to par and I was having to do it in front of a teenage boy. I also remember being in fifth grade and having to read one book every two weeks and write and draw a report on it. I loved this. Probably because for once I got to choose my own books and they were never assigned for me. I thought of it as a

As a child, I used to love reading a lot. I would beg my parents to take me to the library every other day and check out more than ten books a day. As soon as I arrived home, I would lock myself in my room and read all of them. However, as I got older, the books got longer, I lost my interest with reading, and got more lazy to the point where I am now a non-reader. Aside from that, more reasons as to why I am a non-reader now is because I prefer spending my me time doing things like watching shows and going on social media, instead of picking up a book to read. Although I am a non-reader, I do wish I would actually read more often and go to my local library more to pick up books that might interest me. A couple of books that I enjoyed reading were The Maze Runner and The Glass Castle. When I

I can hardly imagine my life without begin able to read or write. These skills are not vital to one’s survival as are obtaining food, clothes or shelter; however, they have been and still are definitely “life preservers” and “instrumental to my survival.”