When & How I Started Reading

Hello everyone! So in order for you guys to get to know me better as a reader I decided to make this post. In here I’ll let you know when did I started reading, when I discover reading for fun, and what type of books do I enjoy the most.

Ever since I can remember I’ve always been reading something whether it was a book for school or an article, there was always something to read, but it wasn’t until I was around six or seven years old that I discovered reading for fun. I was, and I still am a Disney kid, so when my parents bought us, me and my brother, a big box of children’s fairy tales I was delighted. I remember reading all those book, there were at least five book in the box set, so quickly and loving them all. There was one, however, that I cherished the most and that was the story of Rumpelstiltskin. I remember taking that book with me everywhere just so I could read it over and over again. Of course my brother, being the good younger brother he was, destroyed the book. I cried for so long and even now I still bring that every time we argue.

After that I fell into a routine in which I only read books for school, most of my disliking, but back then I was focus completely on getting good grades that every single hour of my day was dedicated to school. Then by the time I was in junior high, I got my first laptop, and I discovered the world of fanfiction, of which I will relay my thoughts on another post. So I still read, but like I said it was mostly fanfiction.

It wasn’t until I was in high school where I rediscovered reading –as in taking time to sit and enjoy a book kind of reading- with an actual school book. The book was called Doña Bárbara by by Rómulo Gallegos, a Venezuelan author. I loved this book so much because Bárbara was such a different portrayal of female character, and I know there was Jane Eyre, but here in Puerto Rico we don’t read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights for school. Here we read Hispanic authors, and for me Doña Bárbara was a female like no other, she was powerful and vindictive, and on the borderline of evilness, but the things she had experienced as a teenager made her cold and spiteful, so you couldn’t help but to feel for her some times.

As the years went by I read lots of amazing books, some for school, others just for pleasure, but it wasn’t until college that I stumble upon a masterpiece that not only did it change my views of books, but also it ignite in me the desire to write. That book was Nibelungenlied, also called in English The Song of the Nibelungs. This book was so amazing, and it was such a pleasure to read, because for me this book had it all, love, revenge, adventure, and death. This epic poem tells the story of Siegfried, a dragon slayer, who is made invincible after bathing in the blood of a dragon. He is promise to wed Kriemhild, the sister of King Gunther of the court of Burgundy. Yet, after a request of the King, Siegfried sails together with the King himself, on a voyage that will ultimately which change Siegfried’s fate, the King’s and even Kriemhild’s.

So as you guys can see my reading experience has been a really variable one, and that’s how I still read today. I enjoy everything from Historical Fiction, Autobiographies, Contemporary, YA Fiction, to New Adult. Books for me are the door to other wonderful worlds, you can learn from them, cry with them, love them, and the best thing is that books, like music, can connects us all.

I hope you guys enjoy this post, I’ll maybe make one later on about writing, when did I started and why, so if you like to write to please look forward to it.

Thank you so much and have happy readings!

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