Final Post Bestsellers

This trimester, I have learned a lot about myself and books. I have learned that reading more than an hour makes me very irritated. I am not sure why but I will only read longer if the I am reading is so good I don’t want to put it down. There was one book I read this tri that I didn’t want to put down and it also changed my perspective on the author of the book, the book was called The Best of Me by: Nicholas Sparks. He definitely is my number one author right now, mostly because I haven’t read anything else written by anyone else this trimester… I know that’s kind of a bad thing, but it kind of not because I found an author that I know I won’t be disappointed in when I read any of his books. I would have liked to have read a book by a different author because I know I need to venture out of my box, but I just couldn’t help not reading his book, there just so good! I have also learned that I read books very slowly, I timed myself while reading one of my pages and it took around a minute and forty seconds, which to me doesn’t seem slow but I know it is compared to others. I don’t mind reading slow then I can fully understand what the author is writing and I visualize better that way. I found out that I absolutely love romance novels and they are the best books ever, but that is also because I didn’t really go out of my comfort zone to read anything different. I was assigned to read mystery and I did, it just had romance in it and it was Nicholas Sparks. In the future before I die I want to read all of his books, and then find another author that has a lot of books and read those. I don’t like boring books and it is hard for me to find one that looks good, because I really want to like it but I have to read parts of it first obviously, it’s just harder for me because I judge a book by the cover and the author sometimes. I did struggle with reading certain pages within in a certain time, I guess I just don’t like reading every single day, and that’s okay. There were some books I found through classmate’s books talks and when I looked some up and they are called First Love by: James Patterson, The Wedding by: Nicholas Sparks and Fifty Shades of Grey, that I know is inappropriate but I think I’ll manage. I hope over the next year I will be introduced to new authors and maybe even a new series, but for right now I’ll stick Nicholas Sparks. I have also learned over the trimester to read efficiently, not fast to where you finish the book in two days. Well at least for me I can’t read a book that fast and I don’t want to read a book that fast, the slower I read the more I will like the book and keep reading. Also reading to fast will just confuse me and I want to understand the book and just take me time. Overall I really liked this class and helped me understand reading better. Also it made me realize the kind of books I like and the ones that seem boring or not interesting. I liked having this class for reading and doing projects on books it was fun, helpful and challenging.