My Development as a Reader

With rapid changes in the society and scientific advancement of human race over the decades, the necessity and importance of reading has increased remarkably. It has become a pivotal skill a person should learn to be successful. However, the cultivation of reading as a hobby is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. As far as I am concerned, the growth of mental interests for reading is a long process, but that is worthwhile because reading has been a vital aid to my emotional and spiritual growth.

Why could I say that it is a long process? Because I am such an example, to say at least. Like most children, I was filled with insatiable curiosity about the world at a young age. I always asked for bedtime stories before I went to sleep and raised some strange questions with my parents now and again. I have been in literacy and could reel off many poems of the Tang Dynasty at the age of three. Owing to my cleverness and curiosity for knowledge, my mother believed that her daughter has innate unique requirements of learning . So when I was just five years old, I already owned a bookshelf and various subjects on this bookshelf. However, it was a wonder that there were books related to philosophy, history and Chinese classical literature, without any fairy-tales for children on my bookshelf. My bookshelf, of course, was just like a decoration in my beautiful bedroom and I had no glimmer of interest to read those books on my bookshelf. My mother was very angry with regards to this, then she decided to get tough with me. She asked me to read books every day and to look up and remember not only the definitions but every detail in a book. She also gave vocabulary drills and quiz...

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...t carefully, then I realize that understanding my own desire, cherishing myself, respecting myself and dauntless pursuit for independence are the quality of being a woman. Meanwhile, the novel also helps me to fashion a positive matrimonial value orientation that without true love, the marriage will be a tragedy. Elisabeth's life attitude and spirit often affect my values and behaviours until today, just like a lamp to my feet, I never get lost with no direction.

Reading a good book, it is just as in a conversation with a scholar. By reading, I enrich my mind and polish my thinking. Up to now, reading is still my mentor, but it is much more different than before. Besides the expansion of knowledge and the depth of thinking, I expand to reading in English. Now I could say that reading is more difficult in comprehension and thinking. It is, nevertheless, worth doing.