What Does Reading Mean To Me

No one can truly say that they do not like to read, because if you do not like to read that just means that you have not found the right book for you. I have never been a fan of reading, growing up I would only read when I was forced to. When I found that one author I learned that it is not that I did not enjoy reading, it is that I never found the author that spoke to me. My mom is In the military so when I was a child she was never really around. I was raised as a daddy's girl. Which in return meant that I was a tomboy, and I mean full blown, only wearing basketball shorts and baggy stained t-shirts every day. My life revolved around basketball and my dad, that was it. Reading was not a part of my life, I thought It was incredibly boring

One day I watched the movie “A walk to Remember” and I just fell in love with it. After that I was at the library with my siblings, who love to read, and I saw that book which was written by Nicholas Sparks. I remember thinking to myself how amazing the movie was, so of course the book must be phenomenal. So I decided to get the book and read it and that is when I found the author that spoke to me. I enjoyed every second of reading his book and it is like his books changed me. I went from being this tomboy girl that only cared about basketball. To this girly girl who was in love with the idea of love. As Helen Keller, A women from the 1800's who was both blind and deaf wrote in her book The day Language Came into my Life, “The living world awakened my soul, gave it light, hop, joy, set it free.”(Keller 74) Although in this quote she is saying that learning to read changed her life entirely. I can still relate because finally finding a book that I enjoyed reading changed the way I looked at books. I still did not fully enjoy reading, but I was never opposed to reading something by Nicholas Sparks. Even though I found the author that spoke to me, it was still hard to convince myself to just sit down and read. Every once in a while like on a car ride or if I was waiting after school for my practice to start I would read a little but I still never fully got into

Although I will say that reading that series before the movie was an amazing experience. I had never done that before and it made me understand why some people enjoy reading so much. The first book to James Dashner's series is The Maze Runner this book is basically about boys who are taken from their family's and put in a clinical trial to see how they react to different variables. On page 68 the main character Thomas says “Who am I.” I just absolutely love those three words because anyone can relate to that. No one knows who they truly are and I believe that no one will ever know who they really are. Reading can help some people find out who they are, it can help people go into a world unlike any other. Which is an amazing thing to be able to