Post #1: Why I Read

     Why do you read? Do you read for enjoyment or for information? Do you read for the educational value, or just so that you have something new to talk about with your friends and fmaily? I think that I honestly read for all of these reasons, and many more.

     In the video Why I Read (below) one aspect of reading is mentioned on more than one occasion, adn that is the idea that when we read we are often pulled into another world and on an adventure. We are able to experience things that we just don't get in our everyday lives when we read. We can go to places we have heard tell of, and be there in our mind by-way of the author's description. We can imagine what life would be like if a significant event hadn't happened, like Stephen King's new book 11/22/63.  Or maybe we are whisked away by a book where we can depict our posterity's future conflicts in books like The Giver or the Matched Trilogy that portray seemingly utopian societies that as time goes by prove to be anything but utopian. Bottom line is that when we read, we are taken to new places without ever having to leave.

 

 

     One of my personal favorites about reading, is that although you take into account what you think the author wants you to depict from his or her writing, you are still free to create your own interpretation. I know from experience that often times, readres are dissapointed when their well loved books become movies. That alternate world, almots like a miniature TV playing inside our minds is often replaced by the director's interpretation of the story. Nevertheless, we all still seem to pay to go and see the movies, hoping that we are not walking into a dissapointment;)

 

BOOK TRAILERS:

 

The Giver by Lois Lowry

 

11/22/63 by Stephen King