Reading

I am a reader. I love books, eat them up. Most free time I have I spend reading, which I probably shouldn't. Probably, I should be studying or working out or socializing or trying to figure out what I'm going to do when I graduate. But instead I read. My little brother isn't a reader. It's so surprising to me, when we were both young my mother read to me most every night. I most vividly remember her reading us the Harry Potter series. By the time the last book came out I could read it on my own if I had wanted to but instead I let her read the whole thing allowed to me. Even as I was much much older I still had her read for me, in 8th grade she read "A Tale of Two Cities" to me aloud because it was hard for me to get through on my own; too slow a plot line and too complicated language for an 8th grader. I often wonder, why teachers, well I suppose schools, have us read the classics so young. I remember reading "The Great Gatsby" (my favorite book) as a freshman in high school. Everyone hated it! I'm not surprised, I love that book and have since the first time I read it. But I didn't truly understand it, all of it, until at least my freshman year of college, perhaps even just this last year. But the problem is most students don't give novels another chance, they hated the book when they were 15 and they assume they hate it now. Such a silly thing! I read the Hobbit in 7th grade and loathed the book, I thought Bilbo was an idiot and the whole thing was absurd. Now of course I am a faithful reader of the entire series, and I quite look forward to the Hobbit movie coming out soon.

Christmas Time!

I just love this! It breaks my heart to think about kids not being read to every night. Shout out to my Mom for making me the obsessive reader I am today.