Reading to be Popular – Blog Post 1

From the age of 6 my parents (like most parents I assume) urged me to read daily. My mother always says that she learned most of her English from reading each day! While I listened to their advice and read a lot, I do not think I grew to love reading until about middle school. It was not the middle school reading curriculum that caught my interest but instead it was the oh-so-hot series’ that came out at the time. Twilight, novels by Sarah Dessen, and Harry Potter (even though I never read the Potter books) were all anyone could talk about in the cafeteria and I think being apart of book pop culture or frankly any pop culture was important to me.  I can still picture large novels being glued to my hand each, Rory Gilmore style, so that I would never be left with nothing to do. I have since cracked open a few of those books and I can not help but laugh of what I once thought was literary genius. After studying adolescence more in college I think that my avid reading can be deemed a positive result of the need to ‘fit-in’.  Even though I do not get to read much for leisure now I often find myself connecting with students in college about books that we raved over in middle school.