okay this is not really a rant of anger its literally putting my jumbled thoughts on to a page. this topic being about Books. feel free to click the exit button if i'm boring you.
Anyway, Me and Books are very close friends in fact i would probably say im a stalker. I am obsessed with reading. I love to read, its calming.
When i was younger and in foster care, i would get stressed and upset and need a release. My first foster parents weren't the greatest people to me and it got bad. i would hide myself in my room. At first i would sit and listen to music to try and calm down and take my mind of it. but then that stopped working. For a birthday present i was given a set of books the Twilight Series and i thought why not read them. at first it took me 2 weeks to finish all 4 books. After that i began another series called the nightworld and it took me a week. soon enough i was finishing books within days and in hours. i was becoming obsessed with finding a book that would keep my mind occupied.
You see reading took my mind away from everything, if the book was well written i would be pulled in forgetting about the world around me. If you ask any of my friends they will tell you, when i read its as if all my other senses are switched off, if someone talks to me i would be oblivious, my school bell would ring and i wouldn't even flinch the only way to break me out of my trance would be to nudge me or take the book away from me.
Reading became my own get away, if it all became too much i would just pick up a book and i would be find. as i was so stressed out my addiction to books got worse i forgot to study for school and complete all my homework because i was dying to finish my books (im still the same way but less demanding) anyway i started to realize this and slowed down the pace of reading. I got my grades back up and started to spend all my free time reading and minimised my reading to 1 book an evening and start writing instead. now i gained another hobby/obsession.
i dont know what to do when the obsession takes over, its like the books call to be and i have to answer.
i have decided that i will start to review the books i read, this way it might give me a break between books if i have to summarise what i have read. i would love to share what i read with all you lovely bloggers :)
so with no further ado i am signing off
laters readers
ashleigh xo
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