When I was young, my mom used to read to me before I sleep which resulted in me growing up with a hunger for books. I used to read all the time. But when I became older, I stopped. I became less interested in books and more found of movies. I would watch three movies a day and I would still want more.
One of my favorite movies was twilight. When Breaking Dawn part one came out and I watched it, I was dying to know what happened next. I searched it on the internet hoping for a summary or anything, and then I found out that the movie was originally a book.
I never read a book in English back then. I was always worried I wouldn't understand the words and didn't give it much thought. But then, I remember thinking: I can read this book, and even if I don't understand a few words, I know what happened because I watched the movie anyway. And so, I read the twilight serie.
I must say, thanks to Stephenie Meyer, I am now the bookaholic I am. After I finished Twilight, I searched for books that were turned into movies, and tried to read as much as possible like "warm bodies", "the notebook", "safe haven"... and I realized that reading in English isn't as hard as I thought it would be. It wasn't hard at all. After a while, I started to do it for fun.
Pretty quickly, reading became a hobby, then a want, then a need. I read more and more and more, and I ended up able to finish a book within two days instead of a couple of weeks. Lately, it became all I wanted to do. I managed to finish seven books in twenty days. I am proud of myself. Reading is now oxygene for me. I literally can't live (normally, at least) without a book in my hands. I would feel guilty when I am on facebook or whatever thinking that I could use that time to finish a book.
I read a lot of good books, but if I had to pick one as a favorite, I would choose "Before I fall" by Lauren Oliver.
This book is literally amazing. It is not so big (about 350 pages) but it combined so many topics and issues that we all can relate to in an artistic way and an amazing writing style. Lauren Oliver spoke (and even criticized) some of the most common situations in a teenager's life in this contemporary book. She spoke about popularity, bullying, friendship, familly... and especially life and death and making decisions and trying to be a better person. It combined almost everything I, as a teenager, wonder about.
This book is about Samantha who is a senior in highschool and who has a perfect life. Then she dies and she lives the day she died over and over and over again.
-Sarah laajimi
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