Essays on Reading Books

Have you ever wondered why people read books? This answer, although seemingly banal, certainly brings some difficulties to some people. Despite the fact that they are dealing with literature practically all their lives, none of them wonder what its role is. Still running somewhere, not…

While reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor many aspects of books I have read began to make sense. This book began to open up the world of literature and gave me an understanding as to why authors put certain concepts and events in…

Books can be very confusing sometimes (especially a book written in the late 1840’s). It’s not deniable that a highschool student can get bored reading these sort of books (the oldies) because not only are most of them really hard to understand but they’re also…

The study focused on the effects of censoring books for children or young people. First, the author defined censorship as a ban in the context of censoring books because “it is removed from wherever it was censored, restricting anyone’s access to it”. The author then…

Unfortunate Events turn to Fortunate Events There are always little moments in your life that completely impact the rest of your life growing up. My first moment that impacted how I am now was in the third grade. The whole school year passed by in…

The story of my reading life began with my mom reading to me everynight before bed. I would memorize the stories she told me and read them by myself. I began reading in kindergarten when I started elementary school. It came easy to me, I…

Reading has always been fundamental in my family. My parents read to my sister and me very early on and that led to a lifelong love of reading. We watched very little TV growing up and books were my main form of (solitary) entertainment. We…

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” (Bradbury, Pg. 35). Banning books blocks the public from an outlet that would better their understanding…

Dwelling in the magical and rather dangerous world of Middle-earth lives a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. He is not your typical hero to grab some one’s attention. Bilbo keeps to himself most of the time. He rarely travels further than his own kitchen or cellar….

I believe the novel benefits from such a nontraditional sentence structure because it creates depth and detail about what is happening during the war at that time in a particular moment. The anecdotes (short stories) create scenery throughout the novel letting the reader have a…