Books of Kings

be a reader. Growing up, I was always an avid reader and a novice writer. I enjoyed reading all types of books as a child. I read all of the Goosebumps books. My parents bought me all of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. When the book fair would come to my school, I would always have to buy a book. The school librarian knew my name by heart because I would always come and check out books. Reading has always and will always be my strength. Reading is my strong point because, in elementary…

Controversial Books: Should Students’ Reading Material Be Limited? As Alfred Whitney Griswold states “Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail” (Brainy Quote). Physically, books are destroyed. But the ideas that dwell inside stay alive. Even though the ideas live on, society often still forgets them because there is nothing physically left to remind them. Therefore, continuing to ban books in public school systems will only limit the possible knowledge of students.…

invention that became so extraordinary that it was used to print almost anything such as religious books, advertisements, and even literary works Working the Printing Press was hard. As it shows us in Document 1, the printing press worked by arranging moving metal type, then the type would be inked, and pressed down to paper. Before the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press, a scribe would write a book by hand from the dictation of a scholar. The printing…

Going through high school with a little amount of friends is something that will affect your life and high school experience. Something I did to keep myself busy was watching movies, more specifically Harry Potter. I know this essay is about how books changed my life, but it started with a movie. At night time I would find myself engulfed in the world that is Harry Potter. Watching the movies made me feel happy and included in something more than myself. Yet I came to an impasse, I had watched…

Visual Analysis The book Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince is written by J. K. Rowling, and it is the fifth one of the series of Harry Potter. The cover of a book is very important because it can attract readers to read book when they see it at first time. This cover appeals adult or the fans of Harry Potter by using golden and decorated letters for the title and a scene for this story. This cover appeals adult because there is no cartoon character in this cover. Many adults do not like…

There are quite a few books that are well known for their stories or important information; however, many of them contain words that are to vulgar for most people. In 1960, 34 year old Harper Lee wrote the very well known book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. However, the book is filled with words which to present day are considered to be the worst you could ever title someone by. Books containing these crude words should not be removed from libraries, but have the few that they serve no purpose in be…

This book is a treasure, it pushes you to think about certain things that we would think of in our twenty-first century lives. I would encourage everyone that has a desire for answers to the over looked questions. It gives an answer that is less on the magic side and give you an insight to the great minds of the future and past. The characters of the book are unique and assemble almost a magical team. The plot of the story is simple, however, to truly under the characters yearns and reasoning…

party a good friend of mine had given me a $20 gift card to buy some books at Barnes and Nobles. If you didn't know Barnes and Nobles is a bookstore that sells anything book related. A month later I visited Barnes and Nobles to buy some books. The door opened and the aroma of coffee filled the air. I walked past the aisles looking for a book that caught my eye. I eyed the “Artist’s Guide of Drawing Everything” but along with the book was a tag that read $45. My thoughts faded away. I then looked…

The Future of Reading: The Handheld Book versus Digital Books In “Lost Books and a History of Reading Them” Stephanie Foote discusses her childhood experience growing up in a “dilapidated but much-loved house out in the middle of no where”(33). This was back before most people have Internet, cell phones, and cable TV, so books were the Foote Family’s entertainment. Foote remembers believing that her family had only a small collection of books that she had been constantly outgrowing, but as an…

active. Brandon like to relax, read a book, and just hang out. No, he loved to read books. Most of the pictures from our childhood consist of Brandon sitting next to me, reading way, and me looking bored or trying to escape. Some people might say Brandon was an easier child than me. My parents tried to read many different types of books to calm me down and get ready for bed, but I never wanted to hear them. That is until one day they read me the title of a new book they had bought for me called…