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My mom is my reading mentor in the way that ever since I was a little kid, I have always been surrounded by books from every different genre. Ever since she was little, she has always enjoyed reading, whether it was putting her into the streets of London in the 1800s or terrifying her through the works of Stephen King. Since she was always around books, she brought that influence to me and my sister ,especially when she would read to us or even now when she recommends books to us.

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When I first started learning how to read, I was so excited that I could read, so I tried to teach my younger sister. I would get frustrated with her. I wanted her to learn so badly because I enjoyed it, but it was not something that she enjoyed so much.

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Ever since I was little, I never had a reading level. I always picked up a book and started reading and if I found it boring or too hard to read I would put it down and pick up and different one. So naturally, I never really had a reading level which made my reading very inconsistent.

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This book was a huge part of my childhood because when I was a younger me and my sister would both run to my mom's room and she would read us a book once or twice a week. One of our favorite books was "Little Rabbit Foo Foo" because it was basically a song. It also holds sentimental value in the way that it was a story from my mom's childhood.

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"Little bunny Foo Foo,/Hopping through the forest,/Scooping /up the field mice,/And bopping them on the head."

Cite: https://www.classical-music.com/articles/little-bunny-foo-foo-lyrics

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‘Little Bunny Foo Foo’ lyrics | Classical Music

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Little Bunny Foo Foo Lyrics: here are the words to the children’s song about a rabbit who harasses the field mice - until a fairy steps in…

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Ever since I was little I only read fiction. A big challenge that I have always had in reading was branching out and reading more books geared towards real life and peoples real experiences. This is mainly because I have always found comfort in the fact that the stories were fake.

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Upon entering middle school, I got very into mythology. I thought it was so intriguing how each culture and religion had their view of how things worked. It originally started with Egyptian mythology and eventually worked its way into Greek mythology until I ended my phase with Roman mythology. However, this book started my whole adventure into the world of mythology.

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“No longer are you Sekhmet the Slayer: you are Hathor the Lady of Love. Yet your power over mankind shall be greater even than it was – for the passion of love shall be stronger than the passion of hate, and all shall know love, and all shall be your victims.”
― Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of Ancient Egypt

cite: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/72172-tales-of-ancient-egypt#:~:text=No%20longer%20are%20you%20Sekhmet,all%20shall%20be%20your%20victims.

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Tales of Ancient Egypt Quotes by Roger Lancelyn Green

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9 quotes from Tales of Ancient Egypt: ’No longer are you Sekhmet the Slayer: you are Hathor the Lady of Love. Yet your power over mankind shall be greate…

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I read "Of Mice and Men" when I was in eighth grade, and it was such a heartwarming story, in my opinion, because it showed the bounds of friendship. I also read this during COVID, which was a hard time for me because I was not as close with my friends, and I was more isolated mentally, besides physically, so it showed the importance of friendship to me in many ways. This book will always have a place in my heart for its several themes and how they were carried out.

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"They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true."

Cite: https://www.audible.com/blog/quotes-of-mice-and-men

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30+ of the best quotes from "Of Mice and Men" | Audible.com

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30+ of the best quotes from “Of Mice and Men”

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Explore poignant quotes on friendship, discrimination, hope, and empathy, capturing the soul of John Steinbeck’s classic novella.

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When I took Ap Lang in my Junior year, I started to look at nonfiction reading and examining it. In examining the elements of the text like the writer and how the background of the reader impacts the way the story was told I was able to look at reading in a whole new light.

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For me, the Notebook was not just a cheesy romance but it just made me look at life a whole different way. It showed me how powerful human emotions and will can be which heavily influenced my life. It taught me valuable lessons such as you cannot let things just happen to you and you have to work for what you want.

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“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”

Cite: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1498135-the-notebook

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331 quotes from The Notebook (The Notebook, #1): ’I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common l…

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When coming into AP Lit, I was never crazy about poems or any piece of literature similar to them because I could never understand them that much. Being in AP Lit, I started to understand more that poems give indirect answers through their form and context. This made me enjoy reading poems so much more because not only could I understand them more, but I started to appreciate them more.

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Beloved was a great book in a lot of different ways. I enjoyed reading it and sympathizing with the characters. It gave me a whole different perspective on Slavery and how it affected everyone in so many different ways. It also presented to me the complexities of motherhood, and as someone who has always loved kids and wants to have my own one day, how my future kids could have an effect on me and how I view life.

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“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

Cite: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/736076-beloved

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"When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman, and child who could make it through, took her great heart to the Clearing--a wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what at the end of the path known only to deer and whoever cleared the land in the first place. In the heat of every Saturday afternoon, she sat in the clearing while the people waited among the trees.

After situating herself on a huge flat-sided rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently. The company watched her from the trees. They knew she was ready when she put her stick down. Then she shouted, 'Let the children come!' and they ran from the trees toward her.

Let your mothers hear you laugh,' she told them, and the woods rang. The adults looked on and could not help smiling.

Then 'Let the grown men come,' she shouted. They stepped out one by one from among the ringing trees.

Let your wives and your children see you dance,' she told them, and groundlife shuddered under their feet.

Finally she called the women to her. 'Cry,' she told them. 'For the living and the dead. Just cry.' And without covering their eyes the women let loose.

It started that way: laughing children, dancing men, crying women and then it got mixed up. Women stopped crying and danced; men sat down and cried; children danced, women laughed, children cried until, exhausted and riven, all and each lay about the Clearing damp and gasping for breath. In the silence that followed, Baby Suggs, holy, offered up to them her great big heart.

She did not tell them to clean up their lives or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glorybound pure.

She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it.

Here,' she said, 'in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard..."
― Toni Morrison,

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463 quotes from Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1): 'Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.'

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Article: "Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension: Direct, Indirect, and Reciprocal Influences"

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Article: "Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension: Direct, Indirect, and Reciprocal Influences"

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Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension: Direct, Indirect, and Reciprocal Influences

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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 23.

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When reading not only do I love being able to experience different times and worlds of creativity but, I am able to have more of an understanding about perspective. I am able to understand more about where people come from and how someones past can mold their present. This is something that I have always taken from my reading because it allows me to sympathize more with people in my day to day life.

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Going forward, one of my biggest reading goals would be to start reading more than just buying books because I tend to buy several books but only read a few of the books I buy thinking I will read the other ones at a later date.