The Power of Reading
It is amazing what can happen when you turn off the TV & the music and pick up a book.
When my senior year of high school started I had just finished reading the Innocent man and had found a different book by the same author, so I started before there was a lot of school reading assigned and had to hold it off for a while.
The first semester went by and I just stuck with reading the assigned school reading. It first started as the usual, read this, remember, and study. When it came closer to the end, the reading became less, and so I decided to start again on the Brethren. It end up being a pretty interesting book.
By the second semester, it got easier. The books in the reading seemed to be more interesting. We read The Stranger and then my English teacher gave us a list of books that we could chose from. There were different types of books; war stories, Japanese culture, existentialism and so many others. He gave us the choice of reading two (short books) or one long book.
The first book I decided to read was Brave New World, which was an interesting book, on how there is a different kind of living and how the people could live the world so differently. The second book I started to read was Going After Cacciato, a war story (sort of). I had decided to read this book because during my junior year I had to read The Things They Carried another war story by the same author, Tim O'Brien. I really liked the first book, so I thought why not.
The semester had end before I got to finish the second book, but during the summer I was determined to read it. I had Going after Cacciato to read as well as The Brethren. Both books were interesting and no matter what I wanted to finish both of them before the time I went to Utah. At the end I met my goal. On the nice days I went outside and did some reading while working on a little tan. Other days I would just sit in my room and read away.
I had another book waiting for me to read when I finished those two. I took that one, and a book my mom had just finished reading on my trip to Utah. I didn't realize how much they loved to read. Gram always did a little reading before she went to bed each night, and the Shirley Girls always had a Harry Potter book with them.
I had started one of the books and just read one chapter each night. During my stay there Gram had found a couple books she thought I might like, because one of my cousins had read it and enjoyed it. I had left Utah with four or five more books then I came with. Usually they would have just sat on my book shelf never being touched, but this time I was in the mood to read books.
The book I started in Utah was The Street Lawyer another John Grissham book. I was reading that book a lot, and after that I had decided to read one of the books Gram had given me, Betsy and the Emperor. I had never realized how much I liked to read until the summer.
It was one of those feelings that made me happy. I was glad to be turning off the sound and reading about the characters in each book and following their story. I was proud that I had read more books in this past summer then any other summer, and even now I am on another book that I got from Gram, The Storekeepers Daughter.
When my senior year of high school started I had just finished reading the Innocent man and had found a different book by the same author, so I started before there was a lot of school reading assigned and had to hold it off for a while.
The first semester went by and I just stuck with reading the assigned school reading. It first started as the usual, read this, remember, and study. When it came closer to the end, the reading became less, and so I decided to start again on the Brethren. It end up being a pretty interesting book.
By the second semester, it got easier. The books in the reading seemed to be more interesting. We read The Stranger and then my English teacher gave us a list of books that we could chose from. There were different types of books; war stories, Japanese culture, existentialism and so many others. He gave us the choice of reading two (short books) or one long book.
The first book I decided to read was Brave New World, which was an interesting book, on how there is a different kind of living and how the people could live the world so differently. The second book I started to read was Going After Cacciato, a war story (sort of). I had decided to read this book because during my junior year I had to read The Things They Carried another war story by the same author, Tim O'Brien. I really liked the first book, so I thought why not.
The semester had end before I got to finish the second book, but during the summer I was determined to read it. I had Going after Cacciato to read as well as The Brethren. Both books were interesting and no matter what I wanted to finish both of them before the time I went to Utah. At the end I met my goal. On the nice days I went outside and did some reading while working on a little tan. Other days I would just sit in my room and read away.
I had another book waiting for me to read when I finished those two. I took that one, and a book my mom had just finished reading on my trip to Utah. I didn't realize how much they loved to read. Gram always did a little reading before she went to bed each night, and the Shirley Girls always had a Harry Potter book with them.
I had started one of the books and just read one chapter each night. During my stay there Gram had found a couple books she thought I might like, because one of my cousins had read it and enjoyed it. I had left Utah with four or five more books then I came with. Usually they would have just sat on my book shelf never being touched, but this time I was in the mood to read books.
The book I started in Utah was The Street Lawyer another John Grissham book. I was reading that book a lot, and after that I had decided to read one of the books Gram had given me, Betsy and the Emperor. I had never realized how much I liked to read until the summer.
It was one of those feelings that made me happy. I was glad to be turning off the sound and reading about the characters in each book and following their story. I was proud that I had read more books in this past summer then any other summer, and even now I am on another book that I got from Gram, The Storekeepers Daughter.
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