Personal Narrative-Accelerated Reading

I used to always read all time when I was younger, during dinner, free time or anywhere that I could possibly get a place to read. There was something about books to me when I was reading them, like video games but with books. For hours, I would just sit down and read until I was told to do something or until I was done with the book. For example, Geronimo Stilton, a series of books I loved when I was younger back in sixth grade, which I would sit down and finish 5 books in a matter of a few hours. Then I was introduced to no illustration books, which I was not cooperative with reading with until I read Rick Riordan’s books. The Heroes of Olympus, Kane Chronicles, the famous Percy Jackson series, and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. All of those books, I read until I had to wait months for a new one to come out. …show more content…
It didn’t stop me from adding a few extra comics when I went to get other books although. Then came the period where I was full on addicted to reading, from fourth to sixth grade, reading as much as I could to take Accelerated Reading tests to earn points for reading. It was one of my favorite times when I could read without being forced to for schoolwork or educational purposes but for my own purposes as entertainment, living in my own world without being bothered. As a result, all my reading couldn’t just be stored in my mind, so I started writing my own stories about demigods fighting evil, a soldier in war, a person running a newspaper, survival stories and anything else that was interesting for a 11 year old boy. Writing was something that I thought was very free flowing, to write whatever you want on paper out of your mind. I wasn’t a very good writer although, usually needing a lot of