Over the years, as time passes by I have become to better understand myself and learn what captures and disappoints my attention. As a young boy I would think no books pertaining to school or gaining beneficial knowledge would ever interest me. As I read and learned about different cultures and heard mesmerizing stories of Prophets I became eager to read more along with interesting worldly based novels. Miraculous real life events and interesting action based novels are the only stories that grab my attention. This has been the case for me for some time and I continue to learn and explore to see what else I can find that interests me. Throughout my quest to find what interests me I have realized that only a few genres capture my attention. Genres such as action, sci-fi, adventurous, and especially mysteries are the most enthusiastic. I also like a little comedy but I don’t always enjoy the over exaggerated belly laughing. Mysteries, out of this selection, would be the genre that I love to read most because it leaves you wondering about …show more content…
Stories from the Holy Quran and series such as Alex Rider grab my attention. Another series interest is The Hunter Games. The Alex Rider series and The Hunter Games are my two favorite series of books in the action/adventure category. Stories regarding to miraculous and religious genres are Stories of the Prophet and Stories of the Sahabah (companions of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). In these stories they include action, adventurous, religious, and miraculous and many more genres that leave you breathless wanting to know more. They contain the most valuable knowledge teaching you how to be God fearing, honest, and kind while also being tough, strong, and brave. To know that these stories are real life stories that happened in the past, I find this amazing and hope to use these noble people as my everlasting role
Bedford Book of Genres explains that “genres are flexible.” Through a recent post on a fellow classmate’s discussion I thought about mysteries. The ability for writers in mystery genres to guide us through their web of twists and turns makes it a genre that has something for everyone. While the theme of the genre may change or the information within the story, a mystery is basically a story, true or false, that centers itself around a mysterious or unexplained event that drives the mystery deeper and deeper. Mysteries have a way of sucking you into the story on the seat of your chair waiting to find out what twist is coming next. They know how to “resonate with readers” and connect with the story. There are several genres of mysteries available out there that can be enjoyed by many different people, with numerous likes and dislikes and in order for this genre to be able to please so many different types of fans it needs to be flexible.
My parents have always stressed the importance of reading. Throughout my whole life, they have motivated me to read and they have encouraged me to find books that I find interesting to read. Because of their encouragement, I am an avid reader today. When I was a child, just starting to enjoy reading I liked to read books that were fiction. Some of my favorite books to read as a child are series that I still love today and I think I still have every book in each series stored in my attic. They are The Boxcar Children, Junie B. Jones, and The Magic Tree House.
One day I watched the movie “A walk to Remember” and I just fell in love with it. After that I was at the library with my siblings, who love to read, and I saw that book which was written by Nicholas Sparks. I remember thinking to myself how amazing the movie was, so of course the book must be phenomenal. So I decided to get the book and read it and that is when I found the author that spoke to me. I enjoyed every second of reading his book and it is like his books changed me. I went from being this tomboy girl that only cared about basketball. To this girly girl who was in love with the idea of love. As Helen Keller, A women from the 1800's who was both blind and deaf wrote in her book The day Language Came into my Life, “The living world awakened my soul, gave it light, hop, joy, set it free.”(Keller 74) Although in this quote she is saying that learning to read changed her life entirely. I can still relate because finally finding a book that I enjoyed reading changed the way I looked at books. I still did not fully enjoy reading, but I was never opposed to reading something by Nicholas Sparks. Even though I found the author that spoke to me, it was still hard to convince myself to just sit down and read. Every once in a while like on a car ride or if I was waiting after school for my practice to start I would read a little but I still never fully got into
It was November 12 when spacecraft Rosetta caught up with the comet called Churyumov-Gerasimenko better know as 67P (Lauren, 2014). The journey took 6.4 billion miles to complete (Lauren, 2014). Also Rosetta sent a lander called Philae to explore the comet and take picture among other things (Lauren, 2014). Interestingly enough when the media reported the comet landing I thing is trumped Kim kardashian attempt at breaking the internet with her nude photos which the media was cover at about the same time as the comet landing. With all that being said you might be asking why should I care? You should care about this comet because comets came from and can tell us about our solar system, also there has not been any unique and important mission as this one, further more it might be the last space mission we get to experience for a while. Now I am going to get in to what comets are and how they got here and talk a little bit
A. Topic sentence. The school has an important role to develop a critical and conscientious the individual as a citizen.
SSgt Sturges, you have been in the Air Force now since 2010, and have been a SSgt since January of 2016. You are a fully Qualified 7 level, and have been performing you daily duties exceptionally well. As we have discussed, your most preferred team member role is a refiner. You really seem to integrate well into the team when taking those ideas that have been created and really refining them into a good usable product. Your cognitive preference is to be a mild adapter. Do not get to wrapped up in your cognitive preference. Just because you are a mild adapter it does not mean cannot also innovate things. It only means you naturally tend to be more on the side of adapting to problems at hand, by using the structures and rules to solve the
In high school, I did not appreciate the stories that I was forced to read. I could not see how I could relate to any of the characters I read about. It was not until I experienced real life and its tragedies, that I gained an appreciation and understanding of certain stories and the characters in them. In my own life...
I began to read not out of entertainment but out of curiosity, for in each new book I discovered an element of real life. It is possible that I will learn more about society through literature than I ever will through personal experience. Having lived a safe, relatively sheltered life for only seventeen years, I don’t have much to offer in regards to worldly wisdom. Reading has opened doors to situations I will never encounter myself, giving me a better understanding of others and their situations. Through books, I’ve escaped from slavery, been tried for murder, and lived through the Cambodian genocide. I’ve been an immigrant, permanently disabled, and faced World War II death camps. Without books, I would be a significantly more close-minded person. My perception of the world has been more significantly impacted by the experiences I've gained through literature than those I've gained
Richard Wright, in his essay “Discovering Books,” explains how reading books changed his outlook on life and eventually his life itself. The first book that widened his horizons was an overtly controversial book by H. L. Mencken. I have a story not so dissimilar from his.
Lastly, being away from home has became my number one reason now why I read. Living here in United States for almost four years is like a roller coaster. There are times where I am up high and happy and there times that I feel down and alone. It takes time to cope up and feel that I really belong, that this is home now. Reading a book had helped me escape from reality. It became a pastime and entertainment for me. Whenever I read a book, I feel like I am in a different world where I can relate myself, I feel like I am a kid again, imagining scenarios that are happening in the book and I am in it
I really don’t read much. But when I find a book I like I read it a lot. I mostly read sports books because I really like sports. My biggest
I went through most of school reading those boring books that we all know about, and it was a serious struggle for me. When reading something you’re forced to, you don't find it quite enjoying. If you don’t enjoy it, you can forget what you’ve read, not get much out of the book, find it incomprehensible, and so on. Then out of nowhere in my life, I had discovered the first book that I honestly enjoyed. I can’t remember a whole lot about them, but i do remember the feeling of finding the first book I liked. The book was almost life changing it seemed. I would read it many times over and over again! These books, Choose Your Own Adventure series, were full of action and took me places! You directed where the story went, or ended by making choices for the main character. It was different every time you read it! It not only was good for reading, but also helped with being able to comprehend what I was reading, finding the theme of a book, and a lot of reading skills. I was finally an active reader! My reading took off, my attention was captivated, and my reading skills began to really
Besides this immersion into a world of books, I credit my love of reading to the fact that my parents only let me watch an hour of TV a day. I learned to use my mind and imagination to entertain myself. It's not really surprising that literature became my vocation. When not reading or writing, I enjoy watching films, baking, going to the city to eat Thai and Ethiopian food, walking, and relaxing with my friends.
If one were to look at my varied reading habits, they would be struck by the diversity and over all unusualness of my mind’s library. I hardly remember the plot of the first book I read, but it was called Lonesome Dove. It wasn’t the actual first book I read, but I don’t really count the McGregor Readers from kindergarten. I read it in first grade because of my Grandmother’s fascination in the T.V. mini-series that was playing during the time. I wanted to be able to talk to her about it so I went to the public library that weekend and picked up a copy. Well, I actually didn’t pick it up, it was too heavy. It took me over two and a half months to read, but with the help of a dictionary and my grandma, I finally read it from cover to cover. I can’t really say that I understood it, because I don’t recall what it was about. But I do remember that it was quite an ordeal. Since then I have read many books. I enjoy fiction the best, especially those that are based on society, but have a small twist that leads to an interesting story. Some of the stories that I remember best from that early time in my life are Tales from Wayside Elementary School, Hatchet, The Godfather, and The Giver. I think that Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, is the only book that I’ve read more than once. I liked the situation that Brian was put into, lost in the wilderness, with nothing more to fend for himself with than his mind and a trusty hatchet. The adversity he faces and his undying drive are what fascinated me most. Since that time my reading habits have grown into a different style. I have usually only read what was assigned to me during the school year because that was all I had time to do, but I have always strived to put forth extra effort. For example: last year for English 3 AP we had to read an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. Although that we only had to read a small bit, I checked the entire book from the college library and read it all. Although the way that Franklin rambled on and on about his “Franklin Planner” was somewhat boring, the way he describe his life was pure poetry.
Your hands shake, your heart pounds, your mind burns with curiosity; what is it about a mystery that excites the senses of a human being? A mystery, by definition, is a novel dealing with an intriguing, puzzling crime, (Merriam-Webster, 535). But what is it about these stories that make them worth reading? No book can really call itself a mystery, unless it is realistic and creative, has a ‘good’, quality villain, and the enigma is worth solving.