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I've read a lot of books, some that I've forgotten and some that I read over and over again, and I will never stop reading. I love to share books with others, and be able to have those conversations debating what we think will happen and if we liked the book or not. Reading transports me to another world. Sometimes it's a world I want to live in, and sometimes it's a world I'm glad I'm not a part of, but it's still a world I'm happy to have gotten to experience a little, even if it doesn't last.

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As well as absolutely anything by Roald Dahl (I recently bought a collection of his books, I loved them so much),

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This summer I read some new books while I was on vacation with my family (I started In the Kingdom of Ice, a story about a North Pole expedition--very interesting!) and when I was in South Africa, since I had a little time to do so. Some of these are The Martian, Judy Blume's new book In the Unlikely Event, The Nightengale, A Hundred Summers, The Opposite of Loneliness (a collection of stories and essays), and To Kill a Mockingbird, an old favorite. (And I read all of these the first three weeks I was in South Africa--I have no idea how I found the time!)

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My Kindle is full of half-read books because I don't always have the time to finish them, even if I really want to. One of these books is American Gods, which I will finish one day, but it isn't a book I can just sit down with and read straight!

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One of my new favorites is Gone Girl, and I have also read a few other books similar to it. I really want to read the other two books by the author, because I heard they are also good and full of thrills and surprises.

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When I got to college, I discovered that I didn't have as much free time to read anymore. When I start a book, I tend to get really invested in it and the only thing I want to do is read it, which isn't good when I have a lot of studying to do for classes. But I still find time to read, and over breaks I start to go through my list of to-read books which keeps getting bigger and bigger, and usually I get a nice sized chunk done, but then I find more books and the list grows again. I have found new favorites though!

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I enjoyed some books I had to read for class, like Of Mice and Men and The Lord of the Flies and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, but I also hated a lot of the books. I enjoyed books like Catch-22 and The Scarlet Letter more after I got to analyze them, but Ethan Frome and Anthem were two books I had to read that I still severely dislike.

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I loved it when some of my favorite books became movies, because I got to see them come to life. Some examples are The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which had a great movie adaptation, The Great Gatsby, whose movie I did not enjoy, and The Book Thief, whose movie I refuse to see because I heard it was awful, and I don't want to see the book ruined.

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My friend was reading Paper Towns one day, and it looked interesting, so I soon bought all the John Green books and he became one of my favorite authors.

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Some favorites include The Hunger Games, and the only good thing about Borders going out of business was the fact that I got the series for a very large discount!

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In high school, I was still rereading some old favorites (Harry Potter), while making new ones. I was interested in reading popular books, as well as books recommended by friends or that I saw online. I also got my Kindle my senior year, so I could very easily buy new books and read them one after the other.

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Basically, I would read pretty much anything. If something at the library or book fair looked good, I would get it and read it and probably fall in love with it and reread it many times.

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and Amelia Bedelia...

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But I still loved fantasy, so I would read books about magic and princesses, like The Princess Diaries or Ella Enchanted.

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I started trying to steer away from reading "kid's books" once I entered middle school, so I would read things like the Clique series and books by Jodi Picoult.

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I remember loving reading The Westing Game and A Wrinkle in Time in sixth grade English class. Even though I had read the books before, I loved getting to experience them again and getting to talk about them during class! It started a love of book discussions and analyzations, and is probably one of the reasons English has always been a favorite subject of mine.

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My love of books continued into middle school, where I reread Harry Potter, and I also found new favorites, either from reading them in class or getting recommendations from friends and family (if my sister was reading something, I probably would read it too).

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Toward the end of my elementary years, I fell in love with Harry Potter, and that love has continues through today. I can't even remember how many times I've read them! I lost count after the tenth time, and I think I'm constantly in the middle of one and I just pick it up whenever I want to.

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and anything by Judy Blume, ESPECIALLY the Fudge series! I owned them all, and I even chose to use them for a book report in fifth grade!

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The Chronicles of Narnia were also read many times,

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I also loved The Boxcar Children, and I read every single book in the series that my library had (and they had a lot!)

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One of my favorite series was Junie B. Jones, and I still own all the books!

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I was eager to learn how to read because I saw my sister doing it, and I wanted to be able to read by myself too and not have to be read to all the time! I had a lot of favorite books, and I would read them over and over again because I could just not get enough of their stories!

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and anything Madeline, which was a popular choice for presents because of my name!

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and Dr. Seuss...

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I was also a big fan of Clifford...

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I have been surrounded by books my entire life. I remember very early in my life being read to by my parents and my sister and absolutely loving it. One of my favorite books was about Minnie Mouse's Valentine's Day, and I had it memorized so I could "read" it to my parents, and I would request to read it over and over and over.