The first time I remember begin read to, or reading to myself was when I was in kinder garden. I was around 5 years old, in my hands was a yellow book with a monkey on the cover, it was one of the many curios gorge books. I remember thinking the story was funny and interesting. i always wanted to know what the monkey would do next, what kind of a mess he would make and how he would fix it-or not.
the problem with this was that the idea of actually reading seemed like a really bad and boring idea. i didn't want to read the word that were on the paper. but i did want to know the story, so that is how my mother would persuade me to read the books that you were supposed to read at home for about a hour each day. my moms clever deal was that i would read one page and then she would read the next. this stopped after i turned eight years old, when my mother had my babysitter, i was no longer an only child, and my mother became ultra busy with her premature daughter.
it took a few year later until i finally found a book i could really get into, before that i would like the story but hated having to take the time to read. so i would grit my teeth and read as quickly as a i possibly could. after sixth grade, one of the books my teacher told us to read a few pages each day was, Frankenstein, after a few pages i was puled into the story and the characters, so i had no intention of reading a few pages each day. no, instead, I read the book slowly, i didnt want to forget anny part of the book, i also didnt want to stop reading, so i grabbed a flash light and read all night long. I could not beleve how enotional the book was, how lonly Frankenstein was, thinking back on it, I reamember this being the first book that i read, that made me cry,feel happy, sad and angry. It was also the first book i read that felt emotionally real, but could never really happen in real life. this is how i realized that i enjoyed the types of books that i could in someway feel conected to, but still feel as if it was another word, one that i could go to when ever i needed get away from the truth. my own personal wold, if that makes sence?
as a few years went by my reading habits changed a lot, instead on watching TV i would read a book. somehow, and im not quite shore when this happened, but about a year after i discovered barns and nobles i owned about 50 books, that were at the very least 200 pages long. as i grew older my book choices have changed in some ways. i tend to lean twords the books with strong female characters and a world that is not what i live in. except for the fact that i stay away from the week willed sort of character, that wont even try, the only real change is that i don't care if the book is YA or adult, ill read it if it sound good. these changes in what i read have mostly to do with the fact that i started to take tae kwon do classes a few years ago, one of the big things i have learned is that you can not give up, just because you think you can not accomplish it, you just cant. another reason has to do that after the twilight craziness every single YA book, except a few, all sound the same!
growing up,work, school, friends, sports and family have all sadly limited how much i read, i might pick up a book every now and then, but im usually to tired or to busy to read for the simple enjoyment of reading. so i guess as a reader im getting relay lazy, but I don't
grimace at the though of reading, not at all. as i metioned before i like strong willed characters, and adore them evean more if thair females, i read pride and prdjudice by jane austin a few moths agos and really love both elizabeth and mr.darcy how they were both just to proud for a long time before realize how judgemental they were being before really getting to know each other. the writing style was so verry diffrent from what i had read in the past, that i really wanted to start reading more of those types of books, that and reading more are my two goals...well except reading Shakespeare, personally he is a little too mellow dramatic for my taste.
