Like most kids, I wasn't much of a reader. I only read when absolutely necessary and that was when there was an assigned book report I had to do in elementary or middle school before googling summaries was a thing. Even then, I'd only fully read two books, Esperanza Rising and The City Of Embers. The only book I had ever read for fun was The Series of Unfortunate Events which I have yet to finish btw. So yeah, not much reading done in my younger years. I would have never thought I'd be a "reader" but 2 years and 250+ books later, here I am making a blog for books.
So what started my immense thirst for books?
The Hunger Games. Yes, the trilogy that is making big bucks on shelves and movie screens. There was a lot of hype for The Hunger Games and after I watched the movie I was surprised that it ended without them doing much but waving to a crowd. So I was like, "What the- all this hype and it just ends like that? There's no way the first book ends like that." So I read the book thinking that I was missing something, but, alas, the first movie did, indeed, end in the same place the first book did so I was thinking, "I did not read that whole book to end where I started," so I read the next book and it was so intense that I read the third and I was just blown away that books could have so much detail and movies left out a lot of it because they couldn't accommodate them in all in a 2hr time-frame. It got me thinking what other hyped-up books were about and what details were I missing from the book-to-film movies that I thought I knew all about.
That curiosity led me to read Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Twilight Saga (which btw was pretty good, ok.), Harry Potter, Divergent, and just a massive amount of books I had no idea I was capable of reading. It's like I was addicted to this new drug and had all this supply. Seriously, I was going through one book a day and I went on like that for almost 4 months. From the beginning of senior year in high school 2012, to the end of 2012 I had read 104 books like I was so amazed by my progress that I kept track of how many books I read. It was insane. I went from not reading squat to reading all of Harry Potter within a week and then some.
I don't think that I'm superior for reading and I hope I don't come off as trying to boast, it's just that I'm so genuinely glad that I've developed a love and understanding to reading that most people do not. I tell you, reading is one of the most entertaining things in the world. I know that might sound lame but it really is. I can't describe it well, but books are just so... colorful. You meet people in them you never would meet in real life like assassins and dukes to aliens and superheros. You travel through time and to places that are impossible to travel to. You become a world builder and use descriptions to create a whole universe in your head that is at your disposal. Characters, words on paper, become near and dear to you because you do not fall for their looks and appearances, you make those yourself actually, but you fall for their wit, ideas, beliefs, their souls. In the words of J.K. Rowling, "If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." and if you do not know the joys and wonders of reading, then I hope that one day you find the right book.
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