Week 14--Reading is Fun!

I have been reading ever since I was 4 years old. My mom would read to us and teach us to read as young as she possibly could. My mom read me so many books, ranging from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Ramona the Pest. Every night she would read a chapter to me before I went to bed, and I would be begging for her to read another. Once I finally learned how to read on my own, and finished all the books that we never got to, and got involved in some new series of books, such as Mary Kate and Ashley and, of course, Harry Potter! I was even reading the Book of Mormon at a really young age. I owe my love for books all to my mother, who taught me to love it. I have noticed that reading actually expanded my own vocabulary as a child, as well as made me more aware of the world around me. As I got older, I found that I had less time to read, but during the summers I read David Eddings, Jane Austen, and basically anything else that I could get my hands on at the library that was a 5 minute walk from my house.

I think the reason that I can read as quickly as I do was because of how much I read when I was younger. I never realized until how school how much reading would affect my reading and writing potential once I got into high school. I was able to actually appreciate the books that I was assigned to read in high school, write thorough and analytical responses about them, and read the books quickly; making more time for me to do my other homework. I realize that this doesn't all depend on how much I read when I was younger, but I do know that it has a really big affect.

I wish that I had more time to read books for fun now, because there are still so many on my list that I would love to read. However, college seems to get in the way and I end reading 3 entire textbooks by the end of each semester. In the blog prompt it asks how I can make writing more pleasurable to me, and I think the best way to do this would to choose things to write about that I actually care about. For example, for the issues paper I chose to write about obesity in children because I am planning on majoring in dietetics, meaning that I find issues in nutrition very interesting. If I hadn't chosen something that I wasn't even remotely interested in, I would not have enjoyed writing the issues paper as much as I did.