Ask me to Read Again, Please?

When I was very young, I read very little outside of what was assigned in the classroom. This behavior was not for lack of love of books, I enjoyed what I needed to read very much, but rather because I had not yet found a genre that interested me. I had tried to read many different types of books but never had become immersed in the reading. It was not until I decided to follow my Dad’s reading habits did I finally become an avid reader.

When I was about eight years old I began to read the children’s version of the Star Wars series. I then fell in love with science fiction novels and could not put the series down until the seventeenth in the series was over. Soon, I began to expand my reading to different kinds of fiction, which included my all-time favorite, Harry Potter. As I grew into my love of reading I discovered many other types of genres could capture my interest, and that I did not need to stick with science fiction and fantasy novels. I have begun to love murder mysteries since my freshman year under Dr. Allison as well as historical fiction, my new-found joy, under Mr. Martin. I am hoping that as I grow in my love and admiration of books I will be able to find even more genres that intrigue me, but for now I have plenty of novels in which I may immerse myself in order to remain occupied in literature.

Since I have found my love in books, I read quite often, possibly to make up for my lack of reading when I was very young. Typically I read about six books in the summer, and when I have no schoolbooks to occupy my reading time before bed, I am always in the middle of a good, newly released fiction novel. I often prefer novels with higher thinking involved, usually including math and reasoning in order to further understand the ending, but at times I find that a simple comical book can keep my attention for two or three days just as well as any other novel. More often than not, though, novels with little thinking tend to lose my attention more quickly than a bad horror movie and are easily discarded, never to be read again.

My writing style is a bit more sparse. Generally, I write for scholarly purposes, and my best writing is done in those subjects of mathematics or researching. I am a very literal person and writing a research paper, to me, is much more intriguing and a more useful way to use my brain waves. As much as reading fiction is more interesting, in writing, my my brain tends to understand researched material and place it together coherently. At times, I wish I were able to write fiction, but often I am much more useful in a research-oriented setting for my writing needs (492).