Writing About Reading!

No matter how bad or good my day goes, I always know that I can come home to my book and it will completely take my mind off of everything that I have been worrying and stressing about. Reading is the one thing that I can always count on.

When I just can't seem to get into the book I'm reading, I tend to continue reading it because there is always a good reason I'm reading it in the first place. Either it was recommend by a friend or family member, or I am reading it for an assignment. I trust my friends and families' opinions and know that teachers pick books for us to read for a reason. I almost never start a book and don't finish it. I would continuously wonder what happened in the book if I didn't finish it.

When the reading place that I am yearning for just isn't available, I cope with it. There are always times when you get stuck in loud and obnoxious environments, yet you have to continue reading. I try to zone out everything going on around me and really focus on what I'm reading. Although I do read better in quiet places where I am alone, I don't find it too hard to read when there are things going on around me, although for some people, it is almost impossible.

When I read a book, everything seems to depend on my mood. If I'm in a great mood and all is well, I make everything that is going on seem really happy, usually way happier than it really is. But if my mood isn't the best, I sometimes twist the author's words and make things duller than they actually are. The style of books I'm interested in are ones that keep me 100% engaged through the entire book. I like suspenseful, comical, and depressing books the most. It may seem that those three genres are completely different from each other, but in my mind they are very much the same. To me, those books never fail to keep me flipping the pages until I'm finished with the entire book.

I'd say I read fiction for two main reasons. One is because it makes me think. Think about where the author even got those ideas from, or think about if that made up place could be real, some where out there. Also, because I love comedic books, and for a majority of the time, fiction books are fun stories where you can never expect what will happen next, what will jump out at you, what surprising twist the author will throw in there.

-Mariah. :]