My Love for Reading Books

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Even now my love of books hasn’t diminished. My count this year, since January, is 46. And I’m still going. Although, this time last year I was getting the books for my list off easybib. Now I keep track of everything I read on Good Reads. It’s a website that lets you track all the of the books you have read and want to read. It even gives you links to find a place to buy the,
Even though I have that at hand now, I still think that I repeated some from last year. No matter how many books I read I still have some that are forever my favorites. I am happy that I got to add to that though.
I have been reading almost nonstop this year. I could have done better over the summer but I’m happy with the numbers. I haven’t reread any of the books that I planned on yet. I have a lot sitting on the shelf that I haven’t touched. I love being able to read as much as I do, even if it takes a while longer when I have so much work to do. And I want to make sure that I read all the books I haven’t before I go back to the other ones.
I got back into one of the series that I put down awhile ago. I had a lot of work to do for school and the books got published faster that I could read them. Now I have started reading them again from the book I left off at. I have made it to the last book.
It makes me really sad to have to say goodbye to Morganville Vampires it has been one of my favorites for a long time. I remember laying in bed in my old house and reading the paper backs. When they first came out they were pretty short, so they were really easy to read. I could go through two or three of them in a day over a summer. Morganville Vampires is the type of series that gets you hooked from the beginning.
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I put in the poem O Captain My Captain because I really like the movie Dead Poets Society. Every time I read it I think of that movie. It’s one of my favorites. I wish I could have added Nothing Gold Can Stay, but I put that in last year. That is another poem from a favorite movie/book of mine. The Outsiders is fantastic.
Overall I like doing this project. I find a lot of new things. Also I love being able to talk about what I have read. I could talk someones ear off about books if they were willing to listen, a lot of people aren’t. Sometimes I do it anyway. I don’t think that I will ever stop reading. I can’t wait until I get a job and I don’t have homework. Then I can just come home and read all night. It would be perfect. Especially perfect if I got a writing job like I want. Reading and writing all day, that is something I could get used to.

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