Reflection On The Value Of A Book

When we were required to read books for school, other classmates complained about it, but it was one of my favorite parts of class. Even though I didn’t always like the books, I liked to read books that I wouldn’t have picked out to read. I liked being surprised when I enjoyed a book that I didn’t think I would like.

James Patterson perfectly sums up my lengthy, arduous, and ever-changing relationship with reading. "There is no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books." As I grow older, and come to appreciate the influence that words have over the human mind and soul, this quote resonates with me more deeply. The interpretation of words has had an immense impact over my life, and is something I will be forever indebted to.

The book is a good book because it makes you ask questions while you're reading it but what's happening and to get a better understanding on what's happening in the story. Like in my book the characters wonder if their dad is going to come home from the war and if he's alive or dead. This makes you question if he is really dead or alive

My experience with literature started when I was in the first grade. My first-grade teacher was named Ms. Young. Every Friday, all the teachers would come together to have story time and read the children a book. I would be so excited for story time because I would sit down with my best friends Ashley and Jordan, and we would listen to the teacher that was assigned to read to us. During story time, all the children would gather around in a big circle and the teacher would be in the center in a big brown rocking chair, and read. Over time in the school year, the children would read bigger and longer books like the Junie B. Jones series, chapter books, and the extreme level, which would be the Harry potter series. Sometimes I would fall asleep because the book that was read was very dull. I remember Ms. Young read to us the “Very Hungary Caterpillar”9 by Eric Carle. I loved that book as a child. It had great illustrations of the caterpillar turning into a butterfly. This book made me love reading for the rest of my life. Now in college, I love to read books. I only

There is a beauty in books. Each book opens up your mind to a world unknown. Each page of a book makes you think to yourself "what's going to happen next?". Books give you thoughts and opinions. Books teach you things you never knew. They allow you to escape reality and enter someone else's world. Books

Good Literature is what it sounds like it’s good but nothing amazing. It is for example, the Hunger Games, where it is a fun and exciting read, but doesn’t spark a change or awakening. This distinction between good and great is vital to the gradual understanding of what makes the human mind tick. Good literature might be nice for a quick and easy read on the beach, but Great literature or nonfiction will change one’s view point and requires detail and focus to extract its full meaning.

Imagery, sense of humor, development of characters, plot twist, and a conclusion that strongly ties up he book. These are all key qualities a book should have in order it to be beloved by society. You would think all authors would publish their books with these qualities, right? Well...most of them do.

Before we divulge into the topic of this essay, let me begin by stating that neither the author of the main source, Steven Johnson, nor I intend to devalue books or look down upon them. In his book, Everything Bad Is Good For You, he starts off talking about the importance of books. He says, “We should all encourage our kids to read more, to develop a comfort with and an appetite for reading” (Johnson 21). Reading provides many different benefits, some including “concentration, the ability to make sense of words, to follow narrative threads, to sculpt imagined worlds out of mere sentences on pages” (Johnson 23). As an avid reader myself, I have always had an interest in books.

In college, there are two main classifications of books: those read because they are required reading and those read because they are desired reading. Sometime however, a book can be read to both fulfill a class requirement, and be enjoyed on its own merit: The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor, by Patricia J Williams, is one such book. It is obvious what makes a book required reading, but what is it that makes a book desired, enjoyable, even fulfilling reading? In a polling of several university students, the most common responses to this question were: “the book must be well written”; “a book in which the reader can personally relate to the writer or characters is held in much

I have made it my goal this year to read harder and older books rather than newer and easy books. I think that I have followed through quite well, though I did read a few easy books. Three years ago I purchased an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite I have found it easier to read challenging books. It makes books easier to read because, of the in-text dictionary I can look at the definition of an unknown word inside the book, it takes the words I have searched and, makes them into flashcards that I can go through later. By virtue of this technology I was able to read many challenging books such as the Three Musketeers, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, a quarterly synthetic biology journal, and many other challenging books. Fiction books I read mainly for pleasure, unless assigned or if it's a fiction wrote in an historic time period. I appreciate historic books because they offer an insight on the thinking and way of life of the people of that era. I also think that reading books written in an classical style influences your writing style. It is my opinion that some of today's literature has become more simply worded and not nearly as descriptive as previous eras. I found that in Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne there were many outdated theories that I had never heard of this gave me an insight into the ways people thought. I have two mediums by which I read first of which is my Kindle Paperwhite which has almost every

First things first, I would like to apologise that it took me such a long time to send this essay of sorts but the reason it took me so long is exactly the same reason I read this book in the first place.

“No two persons ever read the same book.” (Edmund Wilson) It is difficult to distinguish a good book because everyone has their own interpretation of the same words. Everyone will embark on their own journey that could range from life-changing to a waste of time. I treasure the books that strike me with feelings of love, comfort and inspiration. Books serve as a means of escapism and security from the real world. In essence, a good book is a safe haven.

What makes a book good? What about bad? Is it too much action? Not enough? WHat about too much dialogue? Not enough sense? Everyone has an idea of what makes a book good or bad. To many people might think a book is bad, simply because it is a book. Of course, more book aficionados tend think a book should have certain written way. How do you decide whether a book is good or bad? Books such as The Delany Sister’s First 100 Years by Annie Delany, Sarah Delany, featuring Amy Hill, An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee are books that exemplify a ‘good’ books. Books such as Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Macbeth by William Shakespeare are ‘bad’ books. Why are these books put into categories like

There has been more than one occasion in life where I have made a quick, stupid decision when buying things that was not well thought out. The dumbest of them all, the one that wins the prize of dumbest thing I have done with my money, was back in either ninth or tenth grade. A new Rick Riordan book had just been released and I was dying to get my hands on it, along with another book that I honestly cannot remember. The books are not what I regret buying. What I quickly bought without thinking while standing at the cash-register with a line of people behind me is what I regret buying. Where I live, behind the counter of Indigo or Coles stores are most often things on sale. On this particular day, I obviously was not paying much attention

My reading level this year has grown a lot and I think that is because of the amount of independent reading that we have done. I have also been reading a lot on my own and I am starting to really enjoy it. The book that I read this year that I really enjoyed was about space. Life in the Future was my favorite book I’ve read this year by far. This is because it is about a pilot at an air show in Wisconsin that crashes his plane and his body gets preserved into the future and later on saves the world. What really interests me about this book was that the airshow in Wisconsin actually exists today and I have been to it. It was like I was in the book by the way they described it. I like how we have a reading log and a reading goal every week. It helps me pace myself and I can enjoy the book while doing so.