I Love Reading!

Reading is one of the greatest things in the world. My mom taught me to read when I was about 3 or 4 years old. (Thank you so much Mom! You're the best!) And I haven't stopped since. At least until I got into high school. Then things got a bit crazy, and I lost time to read. But I still love it. And as I watched my little sister, who is 5 years old and recently learned how to read, sitting on the couch just contentedly reading to herself for what seemed like hours, it brought me back to my childhood days. *sniff* I was a pretty crazy reader. I'm a speed reader (at least that's what I call it) meaning that I can just basically look at a paragraph and get just about everything out of it. I attempted The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien when I was 5 or 6, but got scared off by Gollum. I read the first Harry Potter book in 20 minutes, the second one in 35, the third in 45, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, took me about a day each. Of course, when I went back and read them again, I caught little things that my eyes and brain had skipped over. Nowadays, it often takes me longer to read books like that because I force myself to concentrate on every sentence or every word instead of speeding through and not getting everything out of it. Unfortunately, I can be a very stubborn person. When I was young, (and now) instead of asking what a word meant, I'd try to figure it out from context. I still do that. I hardly ever look up words, which is a bad thing, cause in many of the books I have to read for school, I really can't figure it out, but I just keep going. Don't be like me. Don't do that. I regret that habit and am trying to fix it.
Coming tomorrow will the first in a series of reviews of books or book series that I highly recommend. They aren't in any particular order. Just what comes to mind when I sit down to write. See ya later!