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>> Luna G Shane: I own over a hundred books.
Of all different types, of all different sizes, all different subjects. Both fiction and non-fiction.
Over the course of the next few months, I am going to attempt to make reviews of as
many of them as possible.
I've found that more and more people... don't read...
that more and more children, don't like to read.
I grew up in Utah,
my mom, my dad and my grandma taught me how to read,
I remember my grandma the most
we'd sit on the couch when I was between the ages of 3 and 5 years old and she would teach
me the words, teach me the sounds, the letters.
and I always had a problem with ou,
I couldn't pronounce it right. I'd get so frustrated and my grandma would tell me, remember
the rule, remember the rule.
and I would say it wrong again and again and again and suddenly she'd reach over and she'd
pinch me. I'd go OWWWW and she'd say "exactly"
and I'd be so upset... and it would happen again and again and again.
But she was able to teach me. and I was able to read chapter books... small ones... at
the age of five
and at eight I was reading all of the "Harry Potter" books that were out.
At first I didn't like them. I have this thing where if I book becomes really popular I don't
want to read it.
and then usually one of my friends pushes me into reading it so I really can't get away
from it.
I love reading and I love books.
I don't understand why someone wouldn't want to slip away into another world for a few
minutes.
Reading was always my escape.
As a child I didn't have the greatest life. But I do have to say, I didn't have the worst
life either.
I've defiantly seen that when I read "A Child Called 'IT'."
It showed me that nothing in my life was as bad as I had thought it was.
But then I had friends who had everything.
I had a friend that for his 15th birthday, his parents bought him a sports car... and
he was always happy he didn't understand what uphappy was.
He didn't understand what it was not to have money and he didn't understand why I was upset
when he'd send me expensive things.
I didn't have that sort of money. I wasn't raised to want things.
I wasn't raised to care that I didn't want things.
Sure I mean I still want things, but I knew that I had to wait,
earn the money myself and pay for it myself.
But, throughout my life I was never deprived of books.
If I wanted a book that was the one thing that my parents would try to get me.
If they couldn't get it for me, my grandma worked at a library, so she'd put it on hold
on her card and we'd read it together.
Together my grandma and I read so many books.
I recently joined this site um...
It's good reads. um...
You get to go through and rate these books that you've read.
It suggests other books that are the same...
and as you rate them, sometimes they'll have a little pop-up underneith that says "these
books are similar, have you read these?"
I ended up going through the same page
for an hour because it had so many pop-ups because I had clicked one Shel Silverstein
book.
And then all these children's books popped up,
and it was just
memories of being a kid, memories of reading all these books with my grandma.
That is one of the happy memories of my childhood.
Now I want to share my happy memories with as many people as I can.
I want to promote reading.
I want everyone to read. I want everyone to like to read. No, no no no... I want everyone
to LOVE to read!
Everyone out there can find at least one book that they love.
I promise you that.
And here's my challenge.
Go out
and READ!
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