My Reading Timeline

•             August 24, 1992: I was born.
•     1997: I read my first book Angelina Ballerina. When I was little I was obsessed with ballet, so my mom help teach me how to read it.
•          August, 1997: Used my imagination to create my first book report poster on the Berenstein Bears in Kindergarden
•      2002: Started reading for fun around the age of ten.  I would go through one book a week, reading novels written by Judy Blume and J.K Rowling.
•      2006: I read Catcher in the Rye my freshman year of high school. This book had a positive impact on my love for reading. It taught me how to find the inner meaning of a novel and write about that.
•  =     2006: Brave New World, a book I read my freshman year of high school, was one of the few books I actually did not enjoy writing. The author’s style of writing immediately turned me off and made the reading miserable     
•      2007: The end of freshman year we read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This was another book that I did not enjoy reading at all. It bored me to death and was really hard for me to understand.
•      2007: Sophomore year I had an amazing teacher who finally helped me understand literary concepts and how to break down the novels I read.
•         2009: My best friend had let me borrow a book that she said changed her life, Nineteen Minutes. It soon became my favorite book. It’s a story about an everyday high school and the problems teenagers face daily.
• 2010: After reading Nineteen Minutes I decided to read more Jodi Picoult novels. She is now my favorite author. Since January I have read about eight of her novels including Change of Heart and My Sister's Keeper.
• 2010: I am a huge fan of Nicholas Sparks. I read all the classics that became movies like The Notebook and Dear John. They keep me reading.
•     2010: I still very much enjoy reading. I read at least two novels a month.