Writing Survey

For me, reading has had a large impact on my life. I read every day and all together I usually spend a couple hours in total reading per day. Reading has turned into my own sort of escape especially since I hide away in stories when I feel upset. I lose my problems and let my feelings dissipate when I start to read and I get so caught up in the book. Since I tend to stress out easily, reading is something I do constantly so the impact of every book is large and I never completely forget about them. Also, when I start loving certain characters in a book I see qualities in them that I admire which makes them and the book stand out in my mind and where my mind sometimes wanders. Like “what would so and so think or do in this situation?” Or sometimes I connect with a book when I see characteristics in the characters that I relate to. To me it shows how seriously I connect with books and it shows that books impact in such a strong way, that I couldn’t live without books or reading. Reading impacts me every day and I am thankful for that.

It’s easy for me to read anything. I normally decide which books to read by recommendations from friends, family, and teachers, basically anyone. If it interests them enough to say “hey, you should read this” then it must be worth the time. If I end up choosing a book on my own, I usually choose a random book off the shelves around other books I’ve read and read the summary at the back or inside the cover. When I start reading books that have been suggested to me as well as books that I’ve discovered on my own, I end up having enough reading material for the next couple months. I’m very open when it comes to deciding which books I should read and I’ve never regretted reading a book so far.

Of course I re-read books. I have so many at home but I re-read them all the time. It might not be brand new to me, but sometimes little details I have forgotten about or somehow missed pop out at me and the feelings I had that first came with the book never leave and I experience them all over again. To list the books I have re-read they are; the Hunger Games series, Twilight series, Mortal Instruments series, Infernal Devices Series, Anne of Green Gables series (not in a while), some Pretty Little Liars books, Guardians of Ga’Hoole (when I was a little younger) and that’s all I can think of at the moment. I love to re-read books so I can re-live them all over again.

I do have a smartphone with Internet access, it’s an iPhone. I take my phone with me everywhere like most teenagers so I will have it in class. I could possibly bring my laptop but it’s big so it’d be a bit of a burden to carry around in class. I kind of wish I had an e-reader but I don’t. I do have a twitter feed where I retweet a lot of my idol and sometimes I tweet funny things I think of. I have a blog obviously now for my creative writing class but not for anything else. I don’t have much interest in using a lot of technology in class. I like writing with pencil and paper and reading an actual book rather than online.