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Although now I don't read books very much I love to watch Ted talks, watch documentaries and read articles from "The New York Times" even though sometimes it is just the fashion section!

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My family was a big influence on my reading. Both of my parents love to read and always encouraged and helped me read. My dad loves to read non fiction and my mom loves fiction books.

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The most common way I read growing up was probably through singing. I was in competitive choirs from the age of 8 to 19.

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A big thing about me is I speak German, as well as my mom and my brother.  Learning German has helped me understand English grammar even better. Here's a picture of me in Germany when I was 16.

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My favorite book now is the "Kite Runner."

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In high school I took African American Literature, which was my favorite english class I've ever taken. We read "Betsey Brown" in this class and I really liked it because it took place in 1950 St. Louis which is where I'm from.

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In seventh grade we were required to read "Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief" I ended up really liking this book and read the sequel.

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Another one of my favorite books in elementary school was the "Series of Unfortunate events" series.  I remember being really excited when a movie of this came out.

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I asked my mom what my favorite book was before I could read and she said it was "Eloise at the Plaza" by Kay Thompson.

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In elementary school my favorite books to read were Beverly Cleary books.  In third grade I did a biography on her, where we got to dress up like our person and give a speech about them.  My favorite Beverly Cleary book was "Ellen Tebbits "