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My first memory of reading was Hooked on Phonics, an in-home learning tool to teach your kids how to read.

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When I was in elementary school we would do a reading log in the summer to get free kids pizza from Pizza Hut.

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In middle school I didn't really read much at all, I would rather play video games or go outside and I couldn't focus on any of the books I tried reading.

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The summer before my first year of high school, I listened to an audiobook of The One and Only Ivan with my mom. Later, I got the book version, and it made me want to read more. This is a picture of my own beat-up copy of the book that I've read over 15 times.

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After reading "The One and Only Ivan" I was constantly begging my grandpa to bring me back to the bookstore so that I could get new books.

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When I started public school, I would have my dad drive me to school 40 minutes early every morning so that I could go to the school library and read or look for new books.

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My favorite genre during this time was the fantasy genre, and almost every book I read was a fantasy book.

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During my sophomore year I got more YA novels with themes of romance and coming of age and left some of my fantasy novels behind.

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When I moved to Richmond, my senior year of high school, I slowed down on the amount of reading I was doing and only read about one book a week.

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After I graduated high school I started to get more into audiobooks and I would listen to one almost everywhere I went.

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I now really only read a physical book every once and a while, but I will keep one on me almost everywhere I go just in case I wanna read before class or when I'm on a long car ride somewhere. Currently, I'm reading "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath.