"I HATE Reading!"
I have yelled, whispered, written and even thought this simple sentence a million times in my life. For as long as I could remember, I've always hated reading.
I hated reading assignments, books from school, books mom made you choose from the library... I hated reading anything.
Why?
It was a waste of time.
I craved experiences and figuring things out on my own. Reading got in the way of that. So I did my best to avoid reading as much as possible. But it wasn't easy, the older I got the harder it was to get around reading.
You see, my mom used to quiz me on the books I had to read for school. I often thought I could flip through it, and from looking at the pictures, and headlines figure out the story enough to answer
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Sometimes two or three different books at a time. Not to mention blogs, e-books, audiobooks and anything else I can get my hands on.
All of a sudden, I can't get enough.
What Made the Difference?
At first I didn't know what caused my desire to start reading. I honestly thought I had just found a couple books and blogs that I enjoyed reading and that it would stop there. But it didn't. I kept craving more. That's when I realized. It wasn't the books, or the authors style of writing.
I wanted to learn and even more so I wanted to grow. I was tired of being the same old me. I was tired of doing the same things expecting different results. I realized that as smart as I thought I was, I couldn't think my way through everything. I had to enlarge my knowledge base. I had to learn about different perspectives and broaden my own. Basically, I needed some new ideas and found them every time I opened a book.
As I became more engrossed in reading, I also learned that many of the great people in history were avid readers. Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt were all avid readers. Roosevelt is known for reading a book a day when he was busy, and 2-3 books a day during his downtime. Even Barack Obama is a veracious
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I also joined a few online book clubs, just to get suggestions for books to read. One of my favorites is Ryan Holiday's Reading Recommendation List, it's completely free.
Every month Ryan posts an update about the books he read and recommends that month. I also write down books that are mentioned in other books, and add them to my list. So inevitably, when I check off a book from that list, I add several more, never making any headway on the list, but that excites me.
It lets me know that there is always more to learn, more to gain, more to be added to my life.
In all likelihood, the list will never stop growing. But it’s not something that has to be accomplished. It’s something to experience, to take in, digest, and explore through your own eyes. I now believe there is something to be taken from each book. Something that can be applied to your life, either as something to embrace and weave into your personal fabric or something that perhaps you see in yourself that needs to be eliminated for a better you. Or perhaps the book just offers another opinion, a different angle on a question, event, or experience for you to consider to broaden your
Reading has always been a pass time I enjoyed doing, there was just something about the fact that endless stories could be created with a combination of words and phrases. Without a doubt, Reading expands one’s knowledge on endless topics as well as expands creativity through inspiration of the various works and forms or literature. Personally, as I grew older and more curious with reading I began exploring different genres to read. My causal reading went from basic non-fiction books to reading things like
When I was a younger I don’t remember if I was read to or not, but I read a lot of books. I enjoy reading books because they allow me to reach new heights in my imagination. At my age many kids say that reading is boring and is for losers. I think it’s cool to read and will continue to read throughout my life. I have read many different types of books from fiction to biographies. The longest book I ever read was a book called Dragon Rider by Cornella Funke. It was five hundred and thirty five pages! When it comes to reading I am a superstar! When I’m reading I am able to get a moral lesson from what I read, so it ends up helping me in the long run of my life
In the start I was super attracted to books and loved the feeling of reading because it felt like I was going into a more interesting life instead of a boring realistic life, If I really enjoyed a book I could read it for hours. I got in trouble in class because I read instead of working. But then one day I would never read the same way again.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go,” wrote by Dr. Seuss. Whether it’s a blog, tweet, text, newspaper, novel, or a poem, people have always read to expand the mind. They read to escape the moment, to gain information, and to help direct them. On pewinternet.org a survey by Kathryn Zickuhr and Lee Rainie, show that in 2013 only 76% of Americans 18 and older have read a book in the past year. As I consider my reading experiences, I realized reading has provided relieve and comradeship on my journey, guiding me and forming my current feelings on reading. Hence my reading memories have befallen parable in my life.
Which I was shocked because I never wanted to read one whole book in my life. So back to the library I went to get my second book, and then read that before anyone else finished their first book of the year. Looking back to those books some of those are the best books I have ever read to this day. Right after school I would rush as quickly as I could to the front office and laid on the ground reading until my mom got off work, then reading on the bumpy car ride home, after dinner and right before bed. Sometimes, when I was really close to finishing a book I would even stay up super late to finish and use a flashlight as my light so my mom wouldn’t see my bedroom light on and know I was up past my bedtime, just so the first thing I said to my teacher the next day was that I finished another book, and of course I said it loud enough so the whole class heard me. They were so shocked that I read so much in so little time. I was on a roll and I didn’t want to stop. I had read more books than anyone else in my class and even in my entire
In addition to reading and writing in my books, I would sit with my sister after she had checked out her books from the library at the school she attended. I’d wait until she finished, and then get her books and read as much as I could. The books she had checked that I had been really fond of would have to be the Clifford the Big Red Dog and Junie B Jones series. She didn’t really like to read so she would get small books and let me read them. After I had read her books, I would read other things around the house,I also liked to read the Sunday comics. It was around that time I discovered how much I liked to read. I read so much that by the time I had reached second or third grade, I didn’t have a reading level. I would just go into the library and get any book I wanted.
You are right, I do love to read, but don’t count the second part out yet. 7 years ago, my parents got divorced. I was just a little 8 year old girl trying to understand why it was so hard to see my dad and why my mom and dad weren’t together. I remember using reading for big changes in my life like that divorce. I love to read and I enjoy reading just for fun, but reading is always there for me. It’s something I know won’t go away. It affects my life, but in a good way. Reading has shaped me as a person and without it, I would not be the person I am
As a kid I used to read a lot and my family use to read to me. Reading was my favorite thing to do, but as I got older I got out the habit of reading. I stopped reading because there were a lot of distractions, such as watching TV, and being on my cell phone all the time. Dr. Seuss once said, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” I absolutely love that quote it inspires me and motivates me so much. I have so many early reading memories, school reading memories, and some reading obstacles that I have had to overcome, all influencing my current approach to reading.
From the moment I could, I read. Of course, during kindergarten I started by only understanding Spanish, so reading took a little longer for me to comprehend. But over time, I did learn to speak and read through the English language and for a long time, reading was my escape. Being able to invite myself into the author’s world of emotions, thoughts, and ideas was the ideal situation. From wanting to leave my world and delve into another, I became passionate about, nay, obsessed with reading.
However, I digress. I grew up in Pasadena, California, being raised mainly by my great-grandmother. When she reached ninety years old, her health began to decline, at which point, I began to take care of myself, my mom, and her (my great-grandmother); I was eight. I have learned a lot about being responsible for myself because of that. During that time, my only vise was reading. I would spend hours at the Hastings Branch Library, which resided across the street from my house. I read everything I could get my hands on, sometimes checking twenty-five books out at one time; I am a fast reader and I would get through probably half of those books in a day or maybe two. I read to escape my troubles, to be anywhere other than where I was. Books were
My past with reading and writing has not been a constant thing, I’ll admit. Growing up, the word reading would be met with a consistent groan by most of my family. Writing would probably hold a worse reaction, but no one in my family really wrote beyond the grocery list. When I was young, my favorite books were either the short informational books about animals, or the Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony Diterlizzi (I never read them, just looked at the pictures). The best thing about books was being able to leave class to go to the library and get read to. Books just weren’t very important to me, or anyone I knew.
See i always read, i learned to read when i was in kindergarten, And to write i learned in first grade, but i never really fully enjoyed either of them or cared for them. I started to get a small interest back in middle school when the libraries started to check out comic books. I would spend hours reading comics even if it really isn't considered a real book. I read a whole series in less than 3 or 4 days. Well Time passed and that interest faded, and reading never interested me again, until i met one specific person.
When it comes to teaching me how to read, my parents were very impactful. However, not only did they help me learn how to read they are also the main reason I learned how to dislike reading. When I was younger I loved to read, but as time has gone by I have grown to dislike it.
For as long as I can remember I have loved reading. When I was younger I would read just about anything I could get my hands on. Cereal boxes, shampoo bottles, just about anything. Reading was my favorite past time and no one was more thrilled than my parents, who took it upon themselves to brag to everyone that I loved to read. As I got older, however, I became less interested in reading. The books assigned to us in school were terribly boring and they successfully ruined reading for me. They made my once favorite pastime seem like a chore and I was convinced I would never love reading like I used to.
For as long as I can remember I have loved reading. When I was younger I would read just about anything I could get my hands on. Cereal boxes, shampoo bottles, just about anything. Reading was my favorite past time and no one was more thrilled than my parents, who took it upon themselves to brag to everyone that I loved to read. As I got older, however, I became less enthused about reading. The books assigned to us in school were terribly boring and they successfully ruined reading for me. They made my once favorite pastime seem like a chore and I was convinced I would never love reading like I used to.