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My History with Reading


   For as long as I can remember I´ve always loved reading. As hard as my parents tried to cultivate readers amongst me and my two younger brothers, I was the only one who genuinely enjoyed it. In fact, my younger brother once had dreams of being a lawyer until he found out how much reading and writing was required. 😂
  As for me, I read to everyone and everything. I remember the first book I read alone was Hop on Pop courtesy of Dr. Seuss. When my brothers did not want to listen to me read I would gather my stuffed animals and line them up all while pretending to play librarian or teacher. (I even heald the book the right way so ¨the children¨ could see the pictures.) When I was in 3rd grade my teacher, Mrs. Warmelink, read aloud Matilda using different voices for each character and I thought to myself ¨I want to be a teacher when I grow up so I can do read books and use different voices. (Fast forward 20 years and my dream became a reality, although I teach math and alas I missed out on doing read alouds.)
 As I grew older, so did my love for books. If you ask my parents they´ll probably talk about my ¨dark¨ period. This is when I was in middle school/early high school and was fascinated with diary books about teenage pregnancy, eating disorders, or books about teens with cancer or illness. What can I say? I like stories with perseverance. Fast forward 10ish years and I remember buying Kindle fires for me and my husband when they were first released.
  Speaking of my husband, I am lucky enough to have married a reader. However, our taste in books are VERY different. Him: Hemingway, classics, and nonfiction\\. Me: young adult, dystopian, fantasy, and the occasional romance story. I always tell my husband my love for young adult ties to my job. I love to read the books my students are so we can discuss and talk about them. (Hey, just because I cannot read aloud to them does not mean I cannot talk about books with them.) Some of my students are shocked to discover that their math teacher loves books and reading.
  Fortunately, the shared love of reading that my husband and I share has been passed down to both our boys. I cannot wait until they are old enough to read Harry Potter, but until then we will continue to read Dog Man, Captain Underpants, and the My Weird School series, and nonfiction books to my oldest and Dr. Seuss, the Berenstain Bears, and Sesame Street to my youngest.
  Over the course of the summer, I have discovered that I have a love for reading and reviewing books. I have read numerous ARCs thanks to NetGalley and have a large stack of books I have yet to review. Over the course of the past two months, I have managed to read 25 books. My plan for this blog is to provide you with reviews for upcoming books along with others that I find in the library or have been on my TBR list for some time. I hope you are as excited as I am! Like this:


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