Reading And Reading : My Idea Of Reading

I had a couple years during middle school where I didn’t read as much, but when I started Seventh Grade I remember reading The Mortal Instruments series, and I fell in love with it. I would stay up late at night just to finish the next Chapter. By the end of the semester, I had finished all six of them and I still love reading them even

It’s been a lengthy process, and after reading hundreds of books from all types of authors that feeling has been achieved from a few books. When I was in 6th grade my class read “Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls. I loved the book it fascinated me the relationship one boy could have with his dogs. I cried at the end because I felt like I was

The book that I chose to read was “And We Stay” by Jenny Hubbard. It is a fiction book, the theme of the book is trying to get over a bad situation that occurred in your life. Emily Beam has to overcome a tragic situation that happened in her life, her boyfriend Paul comes into school one day with a stolen gun threatens people then overall commits suicide. After that event her parents decide that it is best to send Emily away to a boarding school in Amherst, Massachusetts. Once Emily gets there she automatically feels a connection towards the poet Emily Dickinson, who once attended that school.

I as a reader enjoy reading, however I do not do it as often as I would like. I always have trouble starting books, I would say that the first five to chapters are the hardest to get through. I admire how with reading you are able to make your own depiction of what’s happening, instead of seeing what others envisioned. To me a great book must have twists and turns to keep me interested. I love being able to get to know the characters, feeling as if they are apart of your own life, being able to see them as almost a friend in your own life. Taking their life lessons and putting them to use in your own. I like more romantici books where they have to get over many obstacles to obtain their great love. I also enjoy reading about a character who is able to turn their troubles around and become better than they once were.

I was hooked from book one (The Absent Author), and spent hours every day paging through the books on my own time, which would in turn increase my vocabulary, enhance my analytical thinking, and improve my writing skills. In all honesty, those books granted me a love for reading that couldn’t be satiated. They opened up a door for me that would provide solace, comfort, and happiness in the coming years, and I am forever grateful for being granted a personal outlet. Books have become something no one can take away from me, and every person deserves to have something permanent; I’m just glad I found mine when I

In Delirium by Lauren Oliver, love is a disease. As I read it, I was almost instantly taken into the story. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book and I’ve felt like I was actually there in the story, witnessing it firsthand. I love this book because it teaches that you can’t dwell in the past and that love is misunderstood in the book and in life.

The ideas of reading and writing seem intertwined, in order to do one of them you must be able to do the other. Which, makes both equally as powerful as the other in language and literature. Most authors who talk about the ideology of reading and writing, compose their works mainly based off of outside sources, mainly. However, author/comic writer Alison Bechdel composes a story about writing the story and the troubles and hardships she encountered while writing. This oddly more intricate story, though offers a deeper look into Bechdel’s personal life in which she explains her own thoughts as an omnipotent narrator. As the narrator of her own story – showing the character’s (herself) actual thoughts apart from dialogue –

While I can’t pick my favorite book I can recall the books that ignited that passion. Barbara Parks’s “Junie B Jones” was the first book series I read on my own, and I promptly fell in love with reading. The books made me laugh and I related profoundly to Junie B.’s plight. Ever since I’ve been an avid reader, leaning toward books with protagonists with whom I can relate.

Books are powerful. They have one of the greatest powers in the world. Books have the power to influence people and stick with people years after the last time they’ve read the book. One book that has stuck with me for years is Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.

One of my favorite book series was The Giver Series. It had so much mystery and adventure that it kept my growing brain on edge. This series was forced on to me by my eighth grade English teacher for a quarterly book quiz. She told me that most of her past students had loved the book, and that I would be the first to keep going through the series of all the students she had. It was a week before the first quarter had ended and I hadn't picked up The Giver yet, so I started to get very nervous. I would come home and read most of the night, but I slowly grew to love the book and couldn't take my head out of it. I came into

One book that I really liked that I read recently was The life of pie. I read a lot, even though it may not be mostly books. One day I would like to read the whole bible, but that's when I get really old. A book I'm reading right now is Friday Night Lights and this book as about a Texas team that is very obsessed with football in an unhealthy state. The author of the book is Buzz Bissinger, a sixty one year old man who was born in New York City. When I started reading this book I liked it right away because it was a book about football and football is my favorite sport. I rarely read when I want to because I only like books that are about sport and adventure.

In my early childhood years I was introduced to reading at a young age. I can remember learning to read in Kindergarten and having it change me forever. Starting off I always liked reading easy, funny, books like Captain Underpants. This series of books was hilarious to me, plus it had pictures so It created a nice mix of reading and laughter. Also, this is where I started to have a deep love for fantasy. I began to read The Magic Tree House series, which were short and easy fantasy reads that kept my mind racing. The magic really occurred to me as a child, when I could figuratively put myself into the worlds of these books I was reading. My real first challenge, was when I was in fourth grade, and the first Harry Potter book was released. This book was very long for me at the time and had about 300 pages. Once I began reading it though, I

When I was in kindergarten, I first learned how to read. I fell in love immediately. Every book I read gave me the impression that I was in another world going on an adventure to learn new things. I felt free when I began to read, reading books contrived the feeling to escape from the daily task a kindergartener goes through. Reading helped to let my imagination run wild,challenge my mind and brain.

I’d rather jam my toe on the corner of a table for seven and a half hours than read a book. Okay, that may be a tad drastic, but you get my point. I mean, if I get ahold of an amazing book or get assigned an essay that intrigues me, then I’m all in, but that’s rare anymore. I didn’t always feel so negatively towards reading- reading was a crucial part of my life at a young age. My parents heavily encouraged it by reading to me at bedtime and making sure I always had a full bookshelf. When I was about four, still not able to read or spell very well, my parents would spell out words to each other that they didn’t want my little sister and me to hear. Although this was not necessarily them enforcing reading on us, it lit a fire in me to want to know what they were saying to each other. I became better at putting together the seemingly scrambled letters into words and eventually was able to understand their conversations. So proud of myself, I began to repeat the words my parents would spell such as when they were contemplating on taking my sister and me to the “P-A-R-K,” and I screamed “Makenzie, we’re going to the park!” Mom and Dad weren’t very happy that I could now spell. When talking with my parents, I would join in on the “fun” by spelling out meaningless words in my sentences to make me feel big and important. This small feat that I accomplished made me feel mature and helped me gain the confidence to start chapter books.

The book I chose as my favorite is Rot & Ruin this book is different than any other book I have ever read or heard of someone reading. I remember the second time ever going to the library you did five or so book talks out of all five of them one book stood out to me not because I was dead set on reading this book I had just finished the book Asylum by Madeleine Roux and I needed a new book to read. I had liked the horror subject of Asylum but not the book itself. I honestly was going to use Rot & Ruin as a book just to “read” until the semester was over or just get some time out of it. I can't say I wasn't interested at all in it, because I was but I had just finished a book and I have never been a reader. I know that the day I went to check it out Aaron Chandler had already checked it out so I went up to ask you if there was any way I could borrow the book you own to read it.