This year, I have learned to love reading. In the past I didn't enjoy reading that much, and the only books that I had really enjoyed were The Hunger Games and The Twilight Series. I have grown as a reader this year, by learning to like more different types of genres. My favorite are still Chick-Flick, but I did enjoy reading Nervous Conditions which I thought I wasn't going to like at all. At the beginning of the year I dreaded reading for 150 minutes, but now I enjoy it; especially when I am reading an amazing book.
It had surprised me that I love reading now because I thought I never would. I guess reading just grew on me like everything else does, and I'm glad it did since I'll be doing a lot of reading throughout the rest of my life. Finding litterary elements isnt hard for me anymore, and it actually comes naturally now. I notice things like static and dynamic characters, Irony, foreshadowing, symbolism, and imagery without even thinking about it since I have done it so much in class. I don't really think about the theme often whenver I finish an outside reading book, usually, I just think of the moral of the story. I should probably start thinking of the theme since that would be good practice for me because we do that all of the time in English class. Next in my reading, I would like to open my horizons to more genres such as Historical Fiction because I really enjoy reading books about World War II, and it would be good for me since they would be educational. I would also like to try some mystery books.
Reading Times: Sometime around 5 hours I think, I didn't keep exact time but I read for about an hour a night because I was so into my book "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks. I finished it this week too.
Great post, Melissa!
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