march 20th

This blog is about reading and writing. I read and write when I am not told to. I keep a diary that I write in occasionally but not everyday and I really like reading…I don’t typically care for things that im forced to read but books that I choose on my own I really enjoy and I like long books cause for some reason I feel like I have really occomplished something if I read them. I know that sounds kind of dumb but reading a like 100 page book takes like an hour or so depending on subject for me but a 600 or 700 page book takes me like a week unless I can devote a whole day to it. After a 700 page book I really don’t even want it to end cause you get so envolved in the story. I really like to read fiction. I like the imaginative side of fiction I guess and those type of books really intrige me and keep me interested. I read really slow and don’t comprehend things sometimes when I read but with fiction because its like new or something i have never heard of before I don’t loose concentration. For some reason I cant read a few pages of a history book and remember a thing but give me a harry potter book and I can sit down and read like 10 chapters and remember everything. I really hated reading in elemetary school. We used to have to do those accelerated reader points and who ever got the most got prizes and what not. Well I was terrible at that because when I was younger I read slower than now and comprehended close to nothing. I would read like 50 page books and then take the test for the accerlerated reader so I could get point but by the time I got to the questions I forgot everything that I had read.
Im not an active reader I don’t think. I will mark pages sometimes if there is something there that I want to remember but if im just reading for fun then I just read. If im reading things for school I use sticky notes and then later write those notes out so I have sort of an outline of what I read so I can remember it. I really think that by taking notes on the material that I read helps me to own the text.. im much more likely to remember something if I write it down. Its like being in kindergarten when you had to write over and over again your letters. Looking over things twice helps. And when looking over notes after I read I usually think to myself wow im glad I wrote that down because I had already forgoten that. I typically if I don’t want to take exstensive note I atleast write the plot line and characters.
But anyway yes I really enjoy reading and to some extent am an active reader.