Reading makes me happy. I read everywhere I go, from the signs on a highway to the words in a text message. When I read I can become absorbed into the story of what I read. Each book I read that is for fun and not for school catches my eye like moths and flies are attracted to light.
A series I read and finished recently is The Madman’s Daughter series. This series is based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I have read almost an entire series which has miniseries within the entire world. Warriors(written by Erin Hunter) is a saga about four clans of cats but really the clan followed is Thunderclan with Firestar as their leader.Though Firestar started life as a pet. He left home in the very first book to join Thunderclan whose leader was Bluestar. The first series goes into a sequels about his clan when he becomes leader. Then later into sequels about his children then his grandchildren. I quite like the saga.
I read most of the stories in The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. I like the stories where people die in the Grimm stories. What makes me happy about reading is that reading causes there to be an image in my mind based on what the author writes. I hate reading books on an electronic device. It is hard to read the words and touching paper helps bring the story in. Writing in books has never been something that I feel is great or fun to do. I have learned throughout years that I should not write in a book especially a library book because you never know when someone may pick that book up and find that the words block the story from their mind and their enjoyment of the book.
Well, this explains your reluctance to annotate... :)
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on the preferring books to an electronic device - I plan to never own a kindle! Real words on a real paper is where it's at.
You always seem to have a book with you in class - I did that also in junior high and high school - as long as you have a book, you're never alone, in my opinion. :)