Writers as Readers

It is very hard for me to sit down and read something, I get distracted very easily so it doesn't happen often. For me to actually read something I need the area I'm in to be very quiet, like no distracting sounds at all. In fact I have to be alone or else I look for a reason to start talking to someone and stop reading. Then once I am in a quiet room, and alone, every little thing matters. The temperature has to be pretty warm, if it is too cold I get really uncomfortable and tired and fall asleep reading. If the room is too dark I fall asleep too, basically it is very easy for me to fall asleep reading so everything has to be right.

There are only a couple of genres in a book I like; murder mysteries or books that are a little more sad and leave you with something to think... whatever genre that would fit into. I like murder mysteries just because of the way they leave you not knowing what is going to happen. It is interesting to read the different plots and things people can describe through words. My favorite part about them is the endings, when everything comes together and starts to make sense. Things you didn't even know about start to match up and it is just always mind blowing with what some endings. I like books that make you sad and leave you with something to think because they always make me really think. I'm not someone that gets sad all the time and very easily so when I do it has to be really sad. The best books will leave me with things to think about sometimes even a week after I am done reading them.
There has only been one book ever that has been hard for me to put down. 'Looking for Alaska' was the first mature book I ever read. My freshman year English teacher, Mrs. Armstrong, told me read it so I went home and bought it. My mom drove me to the bookstore, so I was able to immediately started reading it on the way home. From that point on I could not put the book down, I ended up staying up all night to read it. Literally all night. I had to know what was gonna happen, the whole book was building up by saying "so and so says before". Well of course once I started and got attached I had to keep reading until I knew what the book was talking about when it said "before". Then once I found out what happened I had to keep reading because it was so huge it freaked me out. I had become attached to all the characters so I for some reason felt really impacted when it happened. That is actually the only book that made me emotional.