As a child living in the middle-of-nowhere finding a friend was difficult. Books were a great helper in my life, they sparked my imagination and helped me to become more social. It was because of books that I have some of the best friends in my life. There were kids that lived up the road, but none of them ever stayed long in the neighborhood. Despite that, there were two constants in my life; books and my mom. I often couldn’t find one without discovering the other. Although she would work late trying to support our family, she would still find the willpower to stay up to read a bedtime story with me. She sparked in me a passion for reading, because when I’m reading I’m never alone. Once I got more drawn into books I was astonished and enthralled at how anything is possible within the realms of the mind. Magic could whorl and whirl around inside in various shades of blues and greens! I could even taste the food! The further I went into books the more I wanted to see how the improbable could become possible. I diverged from the novels I was reading to national geographic and Wikipedia. I saw how kingdoms were actually built and also how they fell. I also noticed a recurring theme in stories, from rubble and ruin come greatness. I also learned …show more content…
I went from mostly physical copies of books to e-books. While this is not bad or wrong in any way I remember a time where I would feel ashamed of myself or even of others for not reading a book that has physical pages. These feelings of book superiority happened mostly when I was at my social peak. After distancing myself from some of the more judgmental people in my life I discovered that I really enjoy the use of e-books. They are compact and affordable, like carrying an entire library in your bag! I reconnected with them briefly and found that they too had discovered the wonders that are
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.
I read a lot of the Junie B Jones book my mom brought home for me. I may not have been as fast as my family was, but for me I was fast enough. I had made my very first friends at the library and even though I knew they weren’t real I knew I always had characters in my books. My favorite place to this day is in any library surrounded by all my
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.
Coming from a different continent, and having a different lifestyle compared to American kids; growing up made me an extreme introvert. Never did I want to go to recess or frolic with the other kids. Fortunately, I was wise enough to fill that void with books and reading. Not any book would do, however. I needed one that was fast-paced, invigorating, and snappy to rivet me. Funny thing is that none of those qualities immediately
The first beloved books in my life were the Sesame Street Encyclopedia volumes. At three, I wasn't old enough to read them, but I always wanted to have them read to me. In fact, I memorized the ten volume set so when my parents would skip some pages I would ask them to read what they skipped. After learning to read on my own, my favorite book became the anatomy volume in the Charlie Brown Encyclopedia. Courtesy of a supermarket book offer, I was the only kindergartner who knew about fertilized egg cells. As I grew older, I continued to read largely because reading taught me so much outside of what we learned in school.
My sister loves to read write even now that she is in college. Alyssa is a Television, Film & Media Studies major at California State University Los Angeles, and I have seen the scrip’s she has developed. I have seen how imaginative she is when she puts a production together. She has told me that the reason she is so creative is because she has dabbled in many different worlds. For instance, she has grown up in Hogwarts, she was a foster kid with the Klaus, Violet and Sunny, and she has fought in the hunger games, and tried to find the lighting bolt before the summer solstice. My sister has submerged herself in so many different worlds and I see the look in her eye when she reads about these adventures, which make me want to read about these same worlds.
Ever since I was a child, I've never liked reading. Every time I was told to read, I would just sleep or do something else instead. In "A Love Affair with Books" by Bernadete Piassa tells a story about her passion for reading books. Piassa demonstrates how reading books has influenced her life. Reading her story has given me a different perspective on books. It has showed me that not only are they words written on paper, they are also feelings and expressions.
My dad taught me that books could be my teachers, my mom taught me that our backyard could be my classroom, and my sister showed me that you could bring books into the swimming pool. I did not know it when I would spend hours in the pool reading a book that my parents weren’t encouraging it in vain, but my family life, for good reason, was centered on books. We were the planets orbiting around one sun that was the bookshelf. Little did I know that books would be the catalyst to academic success in my early life, and I owe it all to my family. Although a life with a book in your nose might seem boring, I was never bored. Living through the characters vicariously, I explored Narnia with Lucy, attended Hogwarts with Harry, and rode dragons with Eragon. Of course
In the excerpt from his autobiography, “Learning to Read,” Malcolm X talks about how the books he read opened up new worlds of understanding for him. That led me to think about the books that have made an impression on my life. Three books that immediately come to mind are Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther, and The Bible. Each book had a distinct impact at different points in time, growing up.
As a child, I have always been fond of reading books. My mother would read to me every single night before I went to bed and sometimes throughout the day. It was the most exciting time of the day when she would open the cabinet, with what seemed to be hundreds of feet tall, of endless books to choose from. When she read to me, I wanted nothing more than to read just like her. Together, we worked on reading every chance we had. Eventually I got better at reading alone and could not put a book down. Instead of playing outside with my brothers during the Summer, I would stay inside in complete silence and just read. I remember going to the library with my mom on Saturdays, and staying the entire day. I looked forward to it each and every week.
I had just turned eleven and received a book, Eleven by Lauren Myracle, from my mother as a birthday gift. As I opened the page and read the first line I immediately had an overwhelmingly bubbly feeling. The sheer coincidences made me feel like that book was written with me in mind. I read on and on non stop for the rest of the day because how could I turn away from a book that was hypothetically written about me. It expressed my pre-teen drama, things only an eleven-year-old would consider drama and it inspired me. It gave me the sudden urge to pour my heart into the little mini books I was known for writing and leaving around the house. Writing was something that I was very passionate as a little girl and is still something I am very passionate about as a young adult. The little things I did in my childhood
I also remember as young girl learning how to read and my favorite book that I could quote word for word was “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr.Suess. I loved that book so much I still have that today. As I got older my love for reading and books started to diminish, I went to a private school for my elementary years and their curriculum was very intense. It was required to read a book from their approved list and complete a book report each summer before the school year began. Not to mention the numerous books reports I would have to complete during the school. At an early age books and reading was something I had to do and not what I wanted to do.
Throughout my life, reading and writing were a positive thing because of the support from the people around. I was never really the confident or extroverted type of person back in the day. This then caused me to be anxious when I read or be doubtful of what I wrote. I can still remember breaking balls of sweats and tensing up whenever I had to read something aloud in elementary. It was a pretty big social problem for me but I can also recall many times where I was laughing and having fun while doing something with reading or writing with my mother. Although there have been many things that affected me so far in my literary journey, my mother has been the most supportive and impactful person to me by reading short stories, going to the library, and giving me writing prompts. One of the activities I liked to do before I fell asleep was to read.
My parents instilled a passion for reading in me even as a toddler; years later, an excellent,
DO YOU THINK BOOKS ARE STILL A RICH SOURCE OF INFORMATION IN THE TIME OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA?