Personal Narrative: My Reading

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I think my reading went pretty well this semester. The books I really enjoyed were Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Burn Journals, and Geography Club. I didn't enjoy Paper Towns or Six Months Later very much. I did enjoy reading a wide variety of books, but it was challenging to find ones that I didn't lose interest in after the first chapter. It was also challenging to know when a good time to read was. The time I was most interested in reading was the day that I chose the book, because if I wait too long after reading the first part of a book I will lose interest in the book. So usually, since I chose almost all my books right before SSR, I would want to continue reading the book as soon as possible. This created …show more content…

It wasn't great last year but as I've continued to read I think my speed has gotten faster. This used to be a huge problem for me because I like to read the entire book in one sitting, and when I used to read slowly that sitting lasted for hours which can be nice if I had nothing else to do, but was a real trouble for me when it was late at night or when I had a lot of work that needed to be done. So that's why it was very good that I increased my reading speed so that it doesn't take me as long to finish a book. However I also improved because I took more breaks than I used to. While this was hard for me since it was difficult to regain interest after I put a book down, I would force myself to continue reading it later even if I wanted to select another book, so I improved in that way. I also think I improved because I selected a very wide variety of books this …show more content…

I read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, which seemed like a normal enough book at first. There was a huge plot twist at the end where two people end up together that I was not expecting at all and that shocked me. While I had been reading the book I remember thinking that those two people would be good together and I thought that they should be, but I also remember thinking that that was never going to happen because it didn't seem like the book was going in that direction. So when it actually happened I was extremely happy and very satisfied with the ending, especially since they did it in a way that seemed like it was supposed to happen instead of just throwing it in without any real reason like a lot of books seem to

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