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Think about the impact literature has had on your life. What books made a difference and helped you develop as a person?

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Kathi Netland link

12/22/2017 09:33:36 am

I grew up reading stories about horses that always ran faster than the wind. I loved the thought that I could love an animal that could carry me places far away from the reality of moving to another school and meeting new teachers and friends again. So for me The Black Stallion was my escape.

Misty Hill

12/22/2017 06:59:12 pm

To this day Harry Potter is still my favorite book series. It is the one set of stories that will never get old to me. I have reread and listened to the audio books for each of the seven Harry Potter books several times and when I think to begin another series, I often settle down into Harry Potter once again. JK's wrtiting helped me to feel I truly knew each of the characters as if I were there with them all along. I appreciate the emotional connection she built into her writing.

kanlayanee

12/24/2017 11:05:49 am

Think about the impact literature has had on your life. What books made a difference and helped you develop as a person?

Growing up as a young child i enjoyed fantasy novels like dragonlance and The Belgariad by David Eddings. They helped shape my young imagination and gave a retreat into the fantasy of youth. They shaped who i was because of the magic and possibilities of the lives of the characters, which became a reflection of me as i grew older and encountered similar circumstances and environments as the protagonists.

Heather

12/24/2017 02:26:01 pm

As a young child I hated reading, and it was extrmemely difficult for me. I can remember many tempertantrums before reading sessions when I was homeschooling first grade. I didn't mind so much being read too, but I sure didn't sit still for very long. My mom read many books to my sister and I including The Hobbit, Anne of Green Gables, LIttle House on the Prarie, The Chronicles of Narnia, Little Women, Charles Dickens, and many other classics. Books have always been a part of my life, and despite my dyslexic challenges, reading and I have learned to make piece with eachother. I love reading historical fiction and fantasy books. Harry Potter, Lord Of the Rings Trilogy, Eragon, The Dragon Riders of Pern, The Harper Hall Trilogy (part of the Dragon Riders of Pern, both triologies written by Anne McCaffrey), The Lost Years of Merlin, and on a completely different note, The Prison Angel,and Marva Collins Way. These are just a few of the books that I have read. I have learned and been inspired by all of these books in various ways, but I think the two books that have made an immeasurable impact on my life and helped me to develop as a person are the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I would be a completely different person without these two books in my life. I read these books daily and continue to gain spiritual inspiration from them which helps me grow as a person.

Anastasia

12/25/2017 05:45:08 pm

To be honest I was not much of a reader as a kid just was not my favorite thing to do. But if I had to pick a book or line of books I would say Dr. Seuss. I liked the way he would use rhyming words and the way the reader would act out what is happening in the book though the way they would read it.

Susana

12/26/2017 05:00:26 pm

I want w much of a reader growing up, but there were some books that made an impact on me. They were Number The Stars by Lois Lowry and Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish.

Heather Clark

12/27/2017 08:13:24 pm

The Martian Chronicles was the first book I ever read because I wanted to. It was a assigned reading book in 9th grade and I could NOT put it down. The Neverending Story was another one that shaped my life. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a story I have become almost obsessed with. My 3 years old daughter is named Alice. Reading helps me escape the mundane everyday.

Girish Shindhe

12/28/2017 10:42:11 am

One of the most influential series i read as a child was The Series of Unfortunate Events. The way it was written just pulled you in to see what would happen next to the children from being pulled around so often. Because most kids couldnt exactly relate to the books, it helped expand my knowledge of the world.

Tiffany

12/28/2017 01:01:45 pm

When I was young the Xanth series and other Piers Anthony books were my favorite. I remember that one of the main characters was very adamant about telling the truth and to this day I try my best to do the same. Now there are too many to name including Wheel of Time, Sword of Truth and the big one, Lord of the Rings. I consider myself a Ringer and have made many, many friends through this hobby and have met some famous people including Tolkien's great, great grandson. Those years were the happiest of my life.

Marley

12/28/2017 01:31:31 pm

Growing up I wasn't an avid reader, but when I found a book I loved I would read it over and over and over again. My first favorite book was Where the Red Fern Grows. It was a large book for me back then (an 8 year old) but I couldn't put it down. As soon as I'd finished it I started it over. It made me laugh, it made me cry and kept me engaged throughout the entire story of this young boy and the bond he shares with his best friends (his dogs). This was the first book that I really fell in love with and it really was the beginning of my love to read. As I've gotten older my taste in literature may have matured (a little) but I am still someone who rereads their favorite books (and series) over and over again. I love that even though I feel that I've memorized them cover to cover, I always find some detail that I had overlooked the last 8 times. This has really helped me understand that perspective and observation are really dependent upon our life experiences and maturity. Our perspective is constantly changing because life goes on and our understanding of people and the world grow.

Crystal M

12/29/2017 12:58:06 am

I have always loved reading ever since I was a little girl. But of course Harry Potter was my favorite. I loved the whole thought of how a little boy is treated so badly for the first 11 years of his life and then one day it all changes, I liked to get lost in the book. My younger brother was the reason that I started to read it in the first place, he was very interested in it but was a little too young to read it himself so he asked me to read it to him. It helped us have a new type of bond that we never would've had if we had not read them together.

Kimberly Goude

12/29/2017 05:03:44 pm

I love reading and how my imagination takes over as i read a book. The author describes the story and i get to see it in my head MY way not the way a director sees it. I believe this has helped me with creativity and creativity is a great trait to have as a preschool teacher!

Celia

1/1/2018 03:50:42 pm

I have always loved books. I especially love the Sci-Fi and Fantasy types. They help me to escape the everyday world. Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey are 2 of my favorite authors. Now that I know JK Rowlings has written under another name I will be looking up those books also! Introducing my children to my favorite books and helping them build their own collections is a great family activity

ahmad

1/3/2018 08:08:06 pm

this book does wonders for the imagination and is definitely a great thing to take inspiration from reality.

Trisha

2/5/2018 01:19:40 pm

As a child I loved the Nancy Drew series I was shy and scared of new situations Nancy Drew showed me how to be brave and helped me cope with new and difficult situations

Julie

3/2/2018 01:02:57 pm

As a child I would read any book that I could get my hands on. From mysteries to fantasy. I loved trying to solve the mystery of who did that and escaping into another world in the fantasy books

Nicole

3/5/2018 07:12:21 pm

The majority of the books that I read growing up were fantasy books. I had a great childhood, amazing parents, a solid family, but there was still something so magical about being able to escape everything around me in a book. Still to this day, reading has helped me cope with stress and some of the hardest things that I’ve walked through. Harry Potter was one of the series that affected me the most growing up and I will forever be grateful to J.K for the magic that I got to be a part of as a child, and still, as an adult.

Carrie

3/17/2018 10:32:24 am

I was always reading books as a child & still love to read all kinds of books. As a young child I loved all the Disney books, Paddington books & Amelia Bedilia. To kill a mockingbird was also a great book

Rachel Hudson

3/19/2018 03:46:00 pm

For me, I did quite a lot of reading as a kid. I've read more books than I can remember, and all of them had some impact on me. Whether they educated me about an unknown subject, changed a viewpoint I held on life, or simply inspired me to keep on moving forward in life, I took away something from all of them. It's hard for me to only choose one. I did read all of the Harry Potter books, and I was one of the crazies at release date events later on. I've read countless series, as series (so long as they're finite) have always been a favorite. Two series that I loved so much that I read them through more than once are Artemis Fowl and Eragon. Those two series definitely shaped me. I connect with Artemis on a near-spiritual level (even finding new solutions to my real-world problems by recalling his brilliant mind and clever problem-solving skills), and the vivid scenery of the Eragon series inspires some of my artwork and storytelling to this day. All literature has impacted me in some way, though.

Thomas Rodgers

5/10/2018 10:22:38 am

I was pretty squarely in the demographic for Potter mania, to the extent that I remember being a bit disappointed to find myself still attending an ordinary muggle school at eleven years old. I consoled myself with an obsession with the fantasy genre that eventually took me to Tortall, Damar, Middle Earth, Xanth, and countless other worlds I can only faintly remember. I was pretty shy and introverted as a child, and literature was what first let me out of my shell to form friendships. I can also somewhat identify with Xandra Burns because for some parts of my childhood my best friends and role models were fictional characters. To this day I sometimes like to think about what Albus Dumbledore would do when I'm faced with a tough decision. I'm even considering putting "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities" on a poster somewhere in my classroom.

Rachael

5/14/2018 09:04:52 am

I struggled with reading and even after being part of a reading group I still had a hard time grasping the technique. My mom bought the Little House on the Prairie books and had me read to her every night for 30 minutes. It was finally something that caught my interest and I have been an avid reader since.

Lauren Bendio

6/25/2018 04:54:09 pm

I HATED reading growing up. I had issues comprehending things that I would read. I would not retain information either. As I matured more, I learned about audiobooks. It was then that I was able to start to get into books more and understand the purpose of them. To this day, I prefer an actual book over an audiobook or a book on kindle. I of course love fantasy, Harry Potter being a favorite of mine, hence this class. My kids have since learned of the magic of Harry Potter, and it is now a book that I read to them as well. Life is hard and busy, and I have felt that fantasy is helpful in taking us away from the stressors that land in our bodies and homes. Life fantasies are fun, The Hunger Games, The Divergent Series, The Legend Series, The Maze Runner Series, etc.

Jacy Roberts

7/2/2018 09:02:27 pm

A few books that have helped me where The Shack and The Walk series. They both have taught me that in dark times in our lives, someone is always watching over us and that sometimes we need to just let go of what problems we can's control and instead hand them to someone who is higher than us to show us the way, He will never give us more than we can handle at one time.

Supraja

8/8/2018 10:44:04 am

I inspired with book Ramayana which tells about life of sri Rama. From my childhood, I use to read the book with my grand father which inspired the way of Rama's life and how to come out of troubles in life. I would like to read suspense and thriller stories like Sherlock Holmes.

Kristin

8/18/2018 07:35:30 pm

I loved reading as a child, so I read a lot of books. I was 8 years old when the first Harry Potter book was released. I grew up reading Harry Potter. These books helped me find a group that I could relate to, and helped me escape from problems that arose in my own life. Another series that had a big impact on my life was, believe it or not, Twilight. This series seems juvenile to a lot of people, but it helped me as a teenage girl grapple with the strong emotions I was having and I learned how to navigate young love through this series.

Ginger Lumpkin

8/20/2018 03:22:05 pm

I loved reading as a child, starting with Nancy Drew because my second grade teacher read one of the books to us. I moved on to Mary Stewart and Daphne Du Muriar I loved the Crystal Cave series on Merlon and King Arthur (wart). I was grown up with grandchildren when I started reading Harry Potter I loved them so much I've read them over and over. I read them to my older Day Care kids too.

Carla

9/8/2018 11:17:53 am

I always loved reading, especially books about horses and dogs. In second grade, my teacher read The Little House series out loud and I was drawn into this world from a previous century. This family had to do everything themselves, from building houses, to hunting for food. They worked hard and were poor, but had so much love for each other. The other series of books I really enjoyed was Beverly Cleary's books about Ramona, Beezus, and Henry. It helped me understand the different personalities in a family and the different perspectives we all have about life. I loved that real things happened to them, I also read a lot of mysteries, every book in the mystery section of the library. I always wanted to figure out what was going to happen before it did.

Igor

10/16/2018 01:13:12 pm

Literature helped provide me with different perspectives on life and how to solve problems.

STACY

10/23/2018 09:41:48 am

I am an avid reader of romance, fantasy, and fiction. I has given me ways to escape the reality of the day or the hardship or heartbreak I may have been facing. I can lose time and place in a good book. I have passed that love on to my children and also my daycare children. It gave ways to look at things and life differently ...it gave me perspective. It gave me hope. It sometimes gave me tears or sadness and joy. It was always a release.

Meg

11/13/2018 01:00:06 pm

My Dad always read books to my sister and I before bedtime. The Chronicles Of Narnia was a favorite and would send me off into the best dreamland before bed. I also loved all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

Jacqueline ray

11/26/2018 01:51:42 pm

I have to admit that Dr. Seuss books made me fall in love with reading. I wasn’t really into reading until I found Dr. Seuss book!

Toni Karr

12/1/2018 05:31:57 pm

I grew up reading a variety of books. Laura Ingles Wilders (little house on the prairie) and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Both of them taught me the importance of family, being kind, doing the right thing and how dreams can really come true.

Teresa Zumwalt

12/7/2018 10:53:22 am

When I think about books that made an impact on my life the first one that comes to mind is The Precious Present by Spencer Johnson.
It is about living each day to it's fullest and taking the positive out of each day and the precious present is just that it is living in the now and and living each day to it's fullest. The story line includes a little boy who is looking for the precious present and thinks that it is a gift, it's not until he is a grown man that realizes the meaning of the precious present and how meaningful it is.

Amber

12/7/2018 08:26:11 pm

Growing up, I didn't really enjoy boys all that much until around 4th or 5th grade when quite a few of the Harry Potter books had already been out and my friends had already been reading them. I remember seeing someone in my 3rd grade class with a big huge Harry Potter book and thinking woah, I can't read that much. Just a few short years later, I couldn't get enough and I still can't. Harry Potter has impacted my life so much, and is the reason I still enjoy books today. I love the stories and characters and everything about it. I enjoyed movies during opening night and waiting inline in the cold for the last few books to come out. There is so much that I have experienced in my life, due to this series and I couldn't imagine it any other way.

sangeeta Gupta

12/8/2018 01:28:24 pm

Secret sevens, Nancy drew and hardy boys were the books that took me on an adventure and always look forward to read books where mysteries are being solved.

Kristen

12/14/2018 11:31:44 am

I hated reading when I was young. I loved being read to, but when it came to picking up a book myself, it was an absolute struggle. A Wrinkle in Time and Where the Red Fern Grows were my first books that I actually enjoyed and wanted to read. After that, Harry Potter emerged and I could not put it down. I read the first book in a week and couldnt wait to pick up the second. My mother was so excited. It was the first and only book I've ever waited for to be released. I would be in line first thing on the day of the new book release. From Harry Potter, I read more and more and today, I'm an avid reader.

Matt

12/16/2018 10:34:06 am

I did not do a lot of reading growing up, but when I did it would always be a book that really captivated me. The Lord of the rings series was one of these, as along with the Harry Potter series has a lot of the same concepts.

Megan

12/17/2018 12:46:26 pm

Think about the impact literature has had on your life. What books made a difference and helped you develop as a person?

I loved reading as a child. I remember getting it trouble by my second grade teacher for spending too much time in the library. The first book I remember being obsessed with was "Where the Red Fern Grows". In the book, a young boy living in the Ozarks is determined to save enough money to buy a pair of hunting dogs. The reader follows the boy and his dogs through their adventures and heart aches. Not only was I a dog lover as a child, but my dad was also a hunter. Being daddy's girl, I think I probably thought he would be proud of my book choice. This book clued me in on the bond that can develop between a pet and its owner. I also saw this bond with my father and his hunting dogs. As I got older, I explored The Chronicles of Narnia, every single Goosebumps book, and then finally the Twilight series. Looking back at some of my book choices, I can see how I now have an interest in dark history and true crime. Living in not the best neighborhood growing up, my mom often wanted me to stay inside instead of going out to play. Reading always allowed me to escape into my own world.

Klarissa

12/19/2018 03:26:14 pm

El Nino de Cabeza (The Upside Down Boy) by Juan Felipe Herrera empowered me to feel valued as a child of a Mexican-immigrant parent.
The illustration and poetry inspired my creativity during my childhood. I continued to seek stories that I saw myself in. Through this validation,
I grew proud and honored of my culture and my heritage.

Will Carlisle

12/27/2018 11:34:47 am

The Harry Potter series had a profound impact on me when I was younger, not so much because of the content of the books themselves, but because they kindled a love of reading in me. I was in many of those lines around the block to pick up the next installment and I'd usually have it finished within a few days. This interest in reading kindled by the harry potter series eventually led me to other series such as "His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman and "The Lord of the Rings" by Tolkien. Reading the Harry Potter series helped me learn to appreciate reading.

Dawn

12/27/2018 03:53:21 pm

Growing up I read a lot of Dr. Seuss books. When I was young I thought they were fun to read because of the rhyming, wild character names and fun illustrations. The books really brought out your imagination. But as I got older I started to realize that the books had more valuable lessons to learn within them.

Tiffany

12/27/2018 05:35:19 pm

I read the Child Called It series when I was a young teen. To this day these books still have impact on my life. It taught me I want to help and work with children and I do now. It also taught me what kind of a mother I want to be and now that I have a child I could never image doing any of these things to him. It even taught me how to be a better friend to kids who are going through rough situations.

Tara Ward

12/27/2018 08:18:11 pm

I loved Nancy Drew, I was a very shy kid growing up. The author makes it a point to keep trying and to be brave in uncertain situations.

Tamara

12/27/2018 09:05:08 pm

I was a bookworm and couldn't imagine my life without a reading. It's hard to choose one, but myths of Ancient Greece were my favorite for a really long period of my childhood.

Dawn

12/28/2018 06:41:31 am

Britt Dougherty

12/28/2018 12:46:02 pm

My favorite book as a young child was The Little Red Hen. This has influenced me both in my love of cooking and baking from scratch, but also the importance of doing your share. The Giving Tree is another favorite of mine from childhood. The story shares the stages of life and definitely has different meaning now than it did when I was a child. The beauty of literature is that you can always find characters to relate to, ideas that challenge you, words that support you on journey and perspectives you had not considered.

Kimberly Edoh

12/28/2018 10:30:26 pm

I grew up reading the series of Harry potter books. I enjoyed the fact that there was a lot of diversity and that they focused on the hard times of death. It really helped me overcome a family loss and become a stronger person.

penny pittman

12/29/2018 12:17:29 am

i have always had a hard time as a child and as an adult as a reader i suffer from add and i do not remember what i read i get lost and cannot concentrate on reading i use to like to be read to but to this day i have never read a book from cover to cover. i can read and im a fast reader i just cannot get into reading a full book i like movies and would rather sit in front of a tv sorry both my parents always had their noses stuck in a book and would never put them down and i always felt like i was ignored as a child so i became a hater of books however, i have become aware as an adult that reading is important and is another world to explore but it is not my thing i don't have time to sit and read chapter books only very short stories to my children and their children but thats it.

Monica Harper link

12/31/2018 06:23:22 pm

As a child I grew up as a preachers kid and as such grew up in the church environment and it was there I developed a love for Gods word which still guides and directs my reading today.

Tiffany Mckenney

1/24/2019 01:47:07 pm

As a child I struggled finding books that kept my interest and I always wondered how my child are going to be. Thankfully all three of my children loves books. I feel it is important for all to read daily because you get to learn new things and it is great for relaxation. Nothing better than on a downer day to pick up a cup of hot tea a great book while reading to the kids!

Shalyssa Decker

2/10/2019 10:44:55 am

A child called it inspired me to work with children and make a difference in their lives

Olena

4/24/2019 09:49:44 pm

I liked historical and romantic novels

Macy Paschall

11/24/2019 09:53:06 am

To this day, Harry Potter is still my absolute favorite book series.

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