Reading.
I have always enjoyed reading. I didn’t learn to read particularly early, I am guessing I was “on time”. I don’t know when I started reading above my level but I know I was reading books that my stepdad had on the bookshelf when I was 12.
I think I can speed read. Once I told someone this and then later thought maybe I shouldn’t have because I don’t know if my reading would fit into the speed read category. It is also likely that loads of people can read a lot faster than I can. I read “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” in three hours but that may be just normal speed for most people. I do know that I can read faster than anyone can speak. My mind likes it that way. I am glad of this, if I couldn’t keep up with my mind on this, I don’t know how I would handle it.
I remember in Year 9 at school, our English class received a book called “The Machine Gunners” to read and then eventually write about in class. I took it home and read it that night before bed. The next day in school, our teacher told us to get our books out and read the first chapter. I didn’t because I had already read it. The teacher noticed and asked me why I hadn’t got my book out and I said that I had read it the night before. He told me not to be smart and so I got the book out and started reading it again.
Because I read a lot, I do reasonably well at spelling. It puzzles me when I see professional documents or pages on the internet where people have made spelling mistakes. It doesn’t look professional to me when there are spelling mistakes. I think people should proofread their own work and then get someone else to proofread it as well. Most books have a spelling mistake or two within.
Sometimes I have two or three books on the go at once, that is, I will read a bit of one book, start another book and go back to the other book later that day or the next day. The maximum amount I have read at once is four because I got some good books at the library and couldn’t wait to read them one by one so I had them all being read together. Right now I have read a chapter of one book and I am halfway through another. 
I read lots of different kinds of books - crime fiction, medical thrillers, science fiction, fantasy and autobiographies are the main genres I like.
Filed by renaeden at June 30th, 2008 under Uncategorized