“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” This is one of my favorite quotes by George R.R. Martin, and in a way he is right, people who read a lot tend to picture themselves in the stories they read. With the many books that I own, I’m glad to say that I lived many lives. Of all the books that I own, the Darkest Powers Trilogy is held dear to my heart, because it was the series that got me to love reading for fun.
Growing up I had avoided reading like it was the Black Death. Reading had always felt like a chore for me. It felt like because whenever my class will have group reading, I would always pronounce the words wrong, and reading would always put me done. In fifth grade, I was reading at a second or third grade level, due to also having a reading disability. My resource reading teacher suggested I try reading a chapter book that was at a fifth or sixth grade level,but the chapter books she had in her classroom had no appeal to me.
That evening, I went to Walmart with my parents, and while there, I walked passed a book that caught my eye. The cover had a girl with long brown hair, eyes not showing, and holding a chain with a red gem on it. The book was called “The Summoning” by Kelley Armstrong. I saw that there were two other books like it, that I assumed it was a …show more content…
Before I had ever read the books, all of my friends would ignore me for a long time, and I would always go cry under the slides during resource. But, when I started to read the Darkest Powers Trilogy, I used it as an escape. I would always picture myself being the main character and be on the run that from the evil group that is after me and my supernatural friends. I would use my necromancy powers to talk to the the dead, and asked them for help when I needed it. The characters in the books were my only friends, and I had felt like I connected with them each in a different kind of
Growing up I had avoided reading like it was the Black Death. Reading had always felt like a chore for me. It felt like because whenever my class will have group reading, I would always pronounce the words wrong, and reading would always put me done. In fifth grade, I was reading at a second or third grade level, due to also having a reading disability. My resource reading teacher suggested I try reading a chapter book that was at a fifth or sixth grade level,but the chapter books she had in her classroom had no appeal to me.
That evening, I went to Walmart with my parents, and while there, I walked passed a book that caught my eye. The cover had a girl with long brown hair, eyes not showing, and holding a chain with a red gem on it. The book was called “The Summoning” by Kelley Armstrong. I saw that there were two other books like it, that I assumed it was a …show more content…
Before I had ever read the books, all of my friends would ignore me for a long time, and I would always go cry under the slides during resource. But, when I started to read the Darkest Powers Trilogy, I used it as an escape. I would always picture myself being the main character and be on the run that from the evil group that is after me and my supernatural friends. I would use my necromancy powers to talk to the the dead, and asked them for help when I needed it. The characters in the books were my only friends, and I had felt like I connected with them each in a different kind of