First blog

I am a book-aholic. I love to read for hours without end. I remember when I was little I hated reading because I could not focus (or sit still long enough) to read the books that I was forced to read for school. Everyone else I knew had their books finished within the first few weeks after getting our summer reading list. I always finished the last book just before school started.
I didn’t like being forced to read. Not to mention that every book they picked from grammar school and all through high school, they picked boring books. Some books were good like The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (which I read fully later on…after the movie), and even The Hobbit (which I had read before it was a school book…and it was a school book twice). I enjoyed those books very much.
I must have had about a hundred books or more in my bookshelf that I had bought and had yet to read.
So I thought in high school that I would start reading something out of the young adults and into more my age books…..the first book I picked up Interview with a Vampire. Yeah I think I got through the first few chapters and then stopped. School got in the way, and I had a difficult time with reading. I read painfully slow still at this point so it took me longer to get into the book. Well other books were put in front of me by my friends and I read those. The Lioness Rampart was one series I read and I read them fairly quick for someone like me. I loved them. So that was the genre I stuck with.
Then I tried to venture out again and found a few other books that struck my fancy. I picked up Bram Stoker’s Dracula Freshman year of college, once again I got through the first few pages and stopped. Terrible! Blasphemies! I know I’m a horrible person! However I plead not guilty because I was not used to the language. In order to get immersed into books you have to be used to the language. It’s not about speed or anything like that. It’s about the language. If you’re not used to the old style English, you’re gonna have a hard time reading. Which I did have a hard time. So again I put the book down claiming that school was in the way and that I would pick it back up once school was over. I read other books in front of it, like Pride and Prejudice. It wasn’t until I had graduate from college that I finally finished Dracula. I loved it! I will always love it. And you can bet that I will be re-reading that book again once I’m finished with the rest of my bookshelf. (Which I’m proud to say that I have about eighty left to read).
If I didn’t have my dream of being a Critter Sitter, babysitting dogs and cats, someday, I would have my own business of being a book critic (or at least have a job as one). Currently I’m trying to finish up The Two Towers from when I started it for school. The trouble is I couldn’t keep up with the reading assignments and I was always swamped with homework. And yes I have been reading other books because this part of the book is so slow I can’t help but read it slow. But I’m so close I plan on staying up so late tonight and finishing it so I can get back to The Girl who Played with Fire!
Being a slower reader does have its advantages. I absorb more. My mother is a fast reader but she can’t quit recall a lot of points in the book. I remember a lot of details of books because of my reading slow. It’s just one of those things with me. I love books so much I’m willing to take the teasing of reading slow, so I can enjoy the book and remember more. Since my mother has brought that up to me I’ve decided that I will be my own book critic and blog about the books I have read. I hope it’s enjoyable and these are my opinions and I will not give away any ending and spoil someone else’s reading. Some may be extremely short, others may be extremely long. I probably won’t give a summary of the book since anyone can easily look that up. The first few book blogs will be from books that I’ve already read most recently and I’ doing it from memory. But hope ya’ll enjoy.