Post 2: What is a Book?

By: Lauren Van Kleunen

A book to me is a destination, or a journey to that destination.  I look at a book as a destination because of all the ups and downs it has. You take 1 step forward 5 steps back, but that’s what the author does to you. She/he keeps you on your toes with the suspense. She wants you to continue reading to find out what happens or just because it’s a personal accomplishment for you if you finish a book. When I think of reading a book I think of everything being crazy, so crazy you have no time to breathe. I feel like in most books there are so many things going on that sometimes you can’t keep track of all of it. First off, you have many characters that you have to deal with, there personality, looks, actions and habits. That’s not all that is happening you still have your conflicts, romances, secret admires, and murders. I think of a book as an alarm clock. Whenever the alarm clock goes off in the morning you want to make it stop and sleep more. I feel like that’s how it is when it comes to reading you sometimes get very confused on what is going on, that you want to put the book down, but you don’t want to leave the book at a cliffhanger so you continue on reading till you find out what happens.

I feel like when it comes to reading books I think that it is much better to read them on hardbacks, rather than on the iPad’s or kindle. I think that it is a lot better to read on hardbacks because there’s a certain feeling I get when I’m reading on a hardback rather than when I am reading on a kindle. I think that the book comes more to real life when reading it first-hand compared to flipping through pages by pressing a button. It’s not the same on the kindle; you are taking away the whole joy or importance of why you should read in the first place. I do agree with what Tom Piazza has said about the difference between kindle’s and iPad’s compared to hardbacks and physically holding a book in your hand. I think he has the right idea or is on the track about hardbacks vs. IPad’s. That sooner or later this world could come to reading off just IPad’s or electronic devices, hopefully that day will never come.

 

Why Do I Read?

 



There are many different reasons why I like to read. There are so many books out in the world that there has to be one that I like. I am a big fan of the Hunger Games series, and I find it to be very interesting to me. I like the series because it is not your typical storyline, and it always has you on the edge of your seat, it’s very suspenseful. The books like the Hunger Games I could get lost in forever because of how interesting it is. It is pleasurable to me and it makes me want to read more and more as I turn each page wondering what is going to happen next. I think my favorite kind of genre is mystery or suspense. I love that unexpected moment in that book, I feel like it really makes the book come to life. I think that fiction definitely ties into mystery and suspense. I think fiction is the broad topic and mystery and suspense are the smaller ones and more specific to people. Depending on what storyline you are reading you can really get a good feel of what the author is like without even talking to them. Which I think is another cool part of reading you get to know someone before you have even met them, which is very unusual.