Why I love reading

 Reading is why I started this blog, it's why I am the way I am today and I would be a very different person if I didn't love it so much. Reading is a simple pleasure and to be honest I don't know how to describe it better than that! 

It lets you escape to places when you have no where to go, it gives you comfort when earth can give none. It gives an insight onto people of the past, present and future. Books are just magical!

When I was younger, I hated reading. Reciting 'A cat sat on a mat' in a monotone voice to a teacher trying desperately to help me. But 'what is the point?' I would wonder, 'Why am I doing this?'. Those books were so boring that I hated  reading. Little did I know that they were vital to my reading experience.

One day, I bumped into a friend in a bookshop and she came up to me holding out 'Zoe The Skating Fairy' by Daisy Meadows. I just had to have it. I loved the idea of fairies and I bought it. I was hooked. From then on I read more Daisy Meadows and other magical animal stories such as 'Magic Bunny' By Sue Bently. I started to love reading and devoured The Naughtiest Girl, Famous Five, The Magic Faraway Tree and other Enid Blyton books. From there I read lots of Jacqueline Wilson and then Michael Morpurgo, followed by Harry Potter, which I adored! 

I now enjoy mostly YA and contemporary, but I am starting to read lost more classics too. At the moment, my favorite YA book is The Paper and Hearts Society by Lucy Powrie. My favourite classic is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, closely followed by Pride and Prejudice and more recently by A Welsh Witch by Allen Raine and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. My favourite poem is Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë. (I am just a bit obsessed with the Brontë's!)

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Thank you so much!