Over the years my book reading habits have changed radically. Now that I stop to think about it it is pretty interesting to go through it. When I started reading I would read all the time, every book I saw was interesting and every sign on the street was just a highlight in my day. Just could not get enough of it. When I got a little older I found out about this comic book in Brazil, I loved it, I would buy it every time it came out. As time went by teachers started asking for me to read books for projects and tests. That’s when I found out books were way beyond just written stories.
I’m very proud of my book reading habits, first because I actually have one and second because it has evolved during the years. I went from comic books, to little cute stories, to autobiographies, and so on. I find it really interesting how much I have learned even from stories that are fictional. Books have been a very applicable entertaining method in my life for about 15 years, almost as a habit. I am always reading a book, I finish one, I already have another one in mind that I want to read.
My favorite author is actually Brazilian, her name is Valeria Piassa, she wrote my all time favorite book that is an autobiography, she is a girl who contracted aids when she as fifteen, and had to learn to live with it. I loved it! I also like Meg Cabot, Marian Keyes, and Pedro Bandeira (another Brazilian author). Most of my favorite authors are Brazilian, and some of them I like, but haven’t read more than one book they wrote. I like reading autobiographies, romances, humor, and a little of mystery never did anyone bad.
I like pleasing stories, that I can either relate, or feel that has a meaning. I don’t like reading with no purpose. I like stories that have me wondering what happens next, and that makes sense. Your probably thinking everybody wants books with stories that make sense, but that’s not true, for some people it does not even have to be a story, it can just be a book about something specific (like animals, or a certain specific topic they like).
Now a days television is ruining the whole magic of books. Instead of picturing what is happening and making your own scenery, having a story in your head. Television makes it all very easy; I like to call it the lazy book. It is a story but you do not really need to use your mind, do any effort for it. It is all there, ready to watch, no imagination necessary. The latest generation is getting very much like that, everything in hand, so easy; no wonder obesity percentage is growing. Now a days there is no need for effort in anything, sot even to use your mind.
Even bed time stories are being ruined for “watch a little television before going to sleep”. Books are fading away, and that is just like a treasure being buried. Kids now a days have no appreciation for books. It is in the little things such as books reading habits that you can actually preview what the world is going to be like fifteen or twenty years from now. It seems really small, but it ends up having a bigger effect then anyone can imagine.
I know my reading habits are going to remain, and be passed on, because I know the effect it had on me. Like I said, its also a habit, having a night stand book, that you read at least a chapter before going to sleep, unless your too curious, then you just have read more. There are many good, diferent authors in the world and they each write about so many diferenct things. I’m sure there is at least one book in the world that every person world be interested in reading, for it is a very broad selection. If one says they don’t have a reading habit, they either haven’t found that one book that has hooked them to this amazing experience, or the laziness of this century has contaminated their mind as deeply as that, but don’t worry, THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE!
