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Personal Narrative: Shifting Interests

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Shifting Interests

Since the time reading was introduced to me, I can remember having either the crisp pages of a book or the smooth surface of a Kindle in my hands. This love for reading started with books written by Roald Dahl, Barbara Parks, Lemony Snicket, and J.K. Rowling. The books about Junie B. Jones that Barbara Parks wrote are the books that come to mind when I try to remember my earliest favorite books. I cannot recall any of the plots or really any of the characters from the books, except for Junie B. Jones of course, but I know I read those books like crazy. After I had finished most of the Junie B. Jones books, I transitioned into reading some of the works by Roald Dahl and this was the first noticeable change that occurred in the kind of books I was reading. I started with books that were filled with childish humor and switched to books that had peculiar plot lines and sarcastic humor.

As my elementary school years progressed, my preferences changed once again and I became very interested in the Harry Potter series and the Series of Unfortunate Events books. This was right around the time when I actually started reading during my free time. Reading …show more content…

I would also say my eighth grade year was the first year I read books that had real substance. Some of those books were ones that Mrs. Anderkin required us to read in class, but I do recall choosing to read one called Thirteen Reasons Why. The book is about a girl that commits suicide and before she ends her life, she records her thirteen reasons for doing it. Mrs. Anderkin had told me about it and I knew it was not something I would usually read, but it sounded very interesting, so I gave it a whirl. From the moment I read the first page, I was hooked on that book. I had never read anything that was so deep and

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