The moment I realized how much I loved to read, I started to make more time to read. Obviously. That's when my attempt to read during car rides took place. Can you guess what book I read? I ask that because I tend to have to tell this story a lot and you most likely know the answer. Well, I will tell you- It was book one of the Harry Potter series. Do you know the feeling when your sick and you eat something you really like, and when you are recovered and you go to eat it again, you feel like your still sick? Yeah, well that's what it was like when I read HP in the car. Turns out, my idea of reading in the car wasn't so genius after all.

Finally, after seeing all of the movies, I decided it was time to pull out the books and try to get past my sick feelings towards book one. Guess what? I finally reached book two. Guess what (again)? I really like them.

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It wasn't until the end of elementary school and the beginning of jr. high that I picked up my late night reading habits. It was the age where I had just advanced from Primary to Beehives. I did what most Beehives do- look up to the older girls. On the way home from a mutual activity, I walked home with the older girls and had a lovely conversation about books. One of them mentioned the book that is now probably the most hated book of all times- Twilight. At the time, I had no clue what the book was or what it was about. As a "graduation gift," my mom bought me my very own copy of Twilight. It was from that book that my midnight reading habits begun. I had to know whether or not Edward and Bella would be together, and with a bedtime of 8:30, there's no way I would've known.

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Now it is expected of me to stay up till wee hours of the day, reading page after page until my hunger is satisfied. My siblings know it. My parents know it. My siblings make comments and 8PM, saying that it won't be another 4-5 hours before I finally shut my eyes to catch some Z's. My mum and pop come down and tell me it's time to go to bed, and I tell them I'm almost done, then read for another hour or two.

Un livre.
-Maddiey Beardall