Everything You Need To Go Through Metamorphos

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Siva Senthil
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Everything You Need To Go Through Metamorphosis

Reading, this word always petrified me all throughout my life. When I read any book I never concentrated to the flow of the book and my mind always wandered in various directions. Completing a book was so rare for me it's like finding a unicorn on my morning jog. When I have to read books for grade for once I read, but from sparknotes. This shows my experience, level and my abomination for reading.
I was shocked when I heard we are going to read a book on our own in my english class. I went to the library with my classmates and read a couple of books do get one I really liked and I did pick one which was quite smaller in pagecount and interesting. The book I chose was called Everything You Need To Survive The Apocalypse by Lucas Klauss. This book was a mix of every genre and was relatable to my life in distinctive ways. I liked the first few pages of the book and it was little short the minimum page limit but was acceptable so I picked it.
I demonstrated laziness at first but when we were required to write journals I really started reading the book. I was quite impressed of myself reading my book everywhere all day. Reading my book has became
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Reading has definitely become my asset and I see a lot of profit from it. I talked about hating reading earlier because it was just like gold ore ugly and useless. Now that I have polished and shaped into a beautiful jewel it I really know the value of it. I have been using alot of vocab from the books and articles that I read. Reading a lot and concentrating on what I read will help me transform into an autodidactic from a tactile learner. Reading also helped me learn new things on my own. I can also do better in all the in class books next semester. In the future this new skill is definitely going to help me morph into good shape for college and see triumph in my

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