Friday, July 29, 2011

Reading Woes

Once of the greatest loves of my life is reading. Ever since I was a little kid I have loved to get lost in a book. I get so wrapped up in the story that have a great visualization of the setting and all the characters in my head, and I can't put the book down until I have finished reading the entire book.
Lately, I have done this with every book that I have picked up, even How the States Got Their Shapes. I dont know if that is due to the fact that I have not spent as much time as I would like reading in the past year or if every book I pick up is really just that great.
My love of reading started at a young age, and I am sad to say that it is due to bribery. But hey, it worked! During the summers, Bradfield Elementary school had a reading contest to see who could read the most each summer. As a result I would spend much of my time outside reading everything I could get my hands on. The first series that I truely loved was Babysitters, Little Sisters. It was about a member of the babysitters club, little sister and life from her point of view. In first grade we were given a challenge to read a number of books and after we filled our sheet up and our parents signed it, we had the privilege of going to the teacher's lounge and getting a coke from the vending machine and drinking it during class. And oh how it worked. I filled sheet after sheet and it drove my parents crazy. Even up through high school my parents would have to come into my room and take my book away so I would go to sleep. I know that my reading drives my fiance up the wall and he doesnt understand my passion for it. I have however, gotten him to read the first book in the Harry Potter series.
In today's world, we have digital readers and let me tell you they have started my love for reading back up. I have found that the bookstores have free books or ones for $.99 and I get as many as I can at one time. I currently have 30-someodd books on my ipad and I have read all but 4 of them. Good thing I have a long plane ride next week, I will read and finish most of them before I get to Harbor Springs. This week alone I have joined a book club, and I can't wait to get that email about what book we are reading and read almost two books. I bought one at the grocery store Wednesday night and finsihed it yesterday. I literally could not put it down and it drove me crazy. I have another book on my ipad and am almost finished with it as well. Everynight this week, I have stayed up late reading until I fall asleep and I am so tired the next morning, yet all I want to do is pick my book up and start reading agian. The only problem that I see with this is, a. I am not getting enough sleep to function at work, and b. I read so fast that I can't afford it. I share books with my parents and I am luckily moving in with them very soon, so I have a ton of books at my disposal, but I have read most of them and some of those I haven't read I have tried to read but just couldn't get into them.
Well I'mn off to go download some books to take on my trip. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know..i need them!

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