My Reading Autobiography

First of all, I haven’t had a lot of reading in my life. My parents were always working so they didn’t have the time to spend in my reading. Most of the time, my family was busy so I had to understand them. I try to help them by not being an obstacle in their routines. However, I think I had a regular reading in my life thanks to my teachers and friends. Even thought I didn’t read too much it didn’t affected me that much either.

When I learn how to read, I tried to read all the books that I could. But most of the time I didn’t last with a book because I had no one to help me. I end up quitting because no one took the time to read with me. There were sometimes that my teachers helped me but they also had to help my classmates so I didn’t help me that much either but I understand it. I don’t blame them because they had things to do. I just didn’t read that much, and as a matter of fact my family had issues and they couldn’t be patient to improve my reading.

During elementary school I only read in class. My teachers read to us and sometimes pick us to read. We read about animals and nature. One of them was about a tree that during the spring wouldn’t flower till the end and because of that the other trees made fun of the tree. Besides that, I didn’t read by myself because I didn’t had someone to help me and to do it by myself didn’t worked. My reading back then was really short.

In high school I read a lot because of my English class, we read short stories but mostly books. The books that I read are “The House on Mango Street” It was about a girl that couldn’t live in one place and make friends in one school because her parents move too often to work. One that caught my attention was “Always Running” because it was about a man that wrote about his life when he was in a gang. The one that I liked the most was “In Cold Blood” by Capote. It was about two men that killed a family and were persecuted, capture and sentenced to death. This book is the one that I liked most because is based on a true story and the story itself is very interesting.

Honestly I don’t have that much time to read because I have other things to do around my home. But when I do read, the first thing that I do is sit in a quiet place and read. I do and finish everything that I need to do first in order to read in peace. Also sometimes my dog sits with me and he helps me concentrate in my reading. He sits there and just looks at me and fall asleep, I don’t know why but that helps me a lot. My reading preferences are simple. I like to read about crimes and fantasy but mostly about cultures and customs. But I am an open mind person and I’m willing to read anything, from fiction to science-fiction all the way to politics.

The people that inspired me are my teachers because the help me even when they had other things to do and didn’t had the time. All of then made it interesting. The person that turned me on reading the most was a friend. He reads about politics and other law books. He used to say that when you read a book, something from that book stays with you and that something is useful later in your life. Of course, it depends on the kind of book that you read but it applies to most of them. He used to tell me about the books that he read but they didn’t stay in my mind because they were mostly about politics and law.

Mostly I used to get books from my friend. He borrowed me books about everything but in the books there was always one about politic or law. Now I can get them in the library or I could just buy some books. Other than that I don’t get books because I don’t have time to read. I can barely get enough sleep so I just don’t have the time to read. I wake up at seven o’ clock in the morning and go to bed at twelve midnight and sometimes even at one pm. If I had the time I’ll read more often.

When I read, somehow I connect myself with the book. For example, when I read about teen pregnancy I just felt like there was no way that I would end up pregnant. Also when I read “Always running” I felt a little more mature because it kind of teaches a lesson to teens about gangs. But in Capotes’ book I felt like reading it over and over again. It caught so much my attention that I even saw the movie twice, even though the book was better than the movie. When I read I feel the excitement of learning something important or just to be satisfied with the book. Maybe the book changes me in a positive way. I just feel that when someone reads a book his or her life changes, not dramatically but in a small way.