Week 13

When I read just to read I will practically read anything that sounds even remotely interesting. I am an avid reader and have been known to spend an entire day just reading a book. There are a lot of people who don't enjoy reading or are very specific in what they read. I am definitely not one of these people. Reading is one of my favorite past times, and it is so relaxing to me. It is a time when I can just forget about the world around me and an author's world. I enjoy being able to be creative about what I see given the author's description. That is one thing that I love about reading. Everybody can read the same text, but because everybody sees things differently, we all have different images in our minds. This allows for a freedom of imagination, and I believe it is very important for a person to experience. Reading for pleasure can easily take our minds off of the stresses of the world and allow our brains to take a break and stop thinking so hard. Everybody needs to be able to just have fun and enter into an adventure that is placed before them on a page of a book. When I write I often try to think of what I have read in the past that has kept my attention and try to add those elements into my writing. This is a little bit harder when writing academically, because the stories that I like to read are not very structured like academic writing is. I think that I enjoy writing creatively more that academically because I do love to read books so much. Reading books gives me ideas and really gets me motivated to write stories myself. When I am writing I often imagine what I would like to read about and incorporate that into my owns words. Reading for pleasure is something that I really enjoy and I do believe that it is important for people to do on a regular basis. It keeps our minds rested and open, and can also really help improve our writing.