The Adventures of a Reader

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

-Oscar Wilde

My career as a reader has been amazing. I have been reading since I was in junior kindergarten.              

I didn't like reading when I was young. I was in India when I started reading and the school didn't have many short stories and the students were not allowed to go to the library so my mother took some short story books and some Walt Disney books from Canada. At school teachers would force me to read books or poems but I would start getting frustrated because I didn't enjoy the books they made me read. So I used to make my mother read the stories for me and I enjoyed it more when she read them.

But after a while, I started to read the Walt Disney books. My first Disney book was the Jungle Book and I liked Snow White and so on. I liked the way my mother read these books because she read them with expressions. When I started to read I tried to read the way my mother read to me and imagine the story in my mind. I always used read the book first and later watch the movie. One of my favourite books from Walt Disney is of course the entire Princess collection, especially Cinderella, and my other favourite is Peter Pan. I have always liked to read these books as I recall my memories. These books really put me in an imaginary world. I love the bright colours and the dresses the princesses wear. These books take one away from reality for a little while and put you in a whole new world.

Now that I'm older, I enjoy reading books but I don't like reading for school because some books are not that interesting. If the book is really boring I will read the end or check the summary on the internet. If I really have to read it, then I skip through the chapters. I like reading before I go to bed and if I find the book interesting I will sit there four hours until I finish my book because I get so curious to find out what happens next. I like reading mystery books because they always keep you guessing what's going to happen next. I also read fiction books. I have also read some Shakespeare stories like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. It took some time to understand the language but I did like the stories.

I like to read books for fun but most of the time I read magazines. I just find magazines more interesting because they have the latest information about what's happening in the world and also because it does not take a lot of time to read them. Magazines also have more exciting stuff to read.

When I'm travelling, I do take a book with me, especially if I am going somewhere far.

One of my favourite collections is Harry Potter. I have read the first four parts but after that I used to like watching the movies as I found it more interesting and also because it doesn't take a lot of time to find what happens at the end.

One of the books I read for school this summer is Black Like Me and I found that very interesting. I read this book in three days as I was very keen on knowing about the story. This gave me a reflection of the world where people were not treated equally. This is the first history related and also non-fiction book that I have read. This made me more interested in the subject of history.

I have always wanted to read The Lord of the Rings but I have never gotten a chance to read it as the book has a lot of pages and I find that I won't be able to finish it. I usually do not buy book that are very big in size because I find it hard to read them and I don't want them to be sitting in the shelf and not being used.

I got a library card last year but I usually don't get time to borrow books because of the school homework but in the summer I do go to the library to get some books so I can pass some time.

Last year when the class had to read Touching Spirit Bear, I only read the pages that had answers to my assignment or question sheet because there was a lot to read and a lot of assignments on that book so I wanted to finish it as fast as I possible but I did understand the story. If I don't find certain parts of the book interesting, I would skim the boring parts and get to the next chapter.

So far, my experience as a reader has been going well and for me, reading books is a good way to pass some time. Books are also good to gain some knowledge because a lot of stories have lessons in them, which makes it more interesting.