Hey wormlets! This is Phoebe back with another post just for you. Today I want to share with you my "bookworm success story", (aka how I became a crazy, enthusiastic, bookworm)! As some of you know, I haven't always liked reading. Some bookworms are practically born with a book in their hands but I am not one of those people. Actually, I pretty much hated reading until this past June. I had to read a certain amount for school and so I would position myself in front of a clock and the minutes felt like hours. But Summer was just around the corner and I didn't have all that much planned. I realized that I needed to find something productive that I could do for the next few months to fill the time. I basically made an internal promise to myself that I would start reading over the summer, whether I liked it or not. But in order to follow through with that promise, I knew that I would need some motivation. That motivation started out as a summer reading program. Little Shop of Stories, a wonderful book store in Decatur GA. had an awesome program which made reading like a huge fun game. That, along with the one at the library, was the reading program that got me started! Once I opened up a book when I didn't have to for school, I found myself aching for more. I loved how I felt like I was right there with all of the characters and how reading could transport me to anywhere from a war torn African country (A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park) to a magical path at the bottom of the sea (When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin). With my newfound love for reading, I started I'm A Book Addict, simply as an outlet for all of my nerdy excitement about books. For those of you who don't know this about me, I love creating websites and blogs, so this was nothing new to me, but the response that followed was un-expected. I told some of my friends about it and they were very interested. Those friends have brought in new people and the fanbase is continually growing! We have flyers at libraries, bookstores, and community centers. I'm A Book Addict is continuing the motivation that Little Shop's summer reading program started--I am not only reading for myself but I'm reading for all of you! I get to think about books in a whole different way and I constantly find myself in "writing mode" while I'm reading...thinking about what I like and don't like about the book, building theories in my brain. All this to say two things: 1) THANK YOU to everything and everyone that helped make this awesome success story! Thanks to Little Shop of Stories and the Dekalb library system. And also to my three of my fav authors, Linda Sue Park, Grace Lin, and Jackson Pearce for inspiring me to love reading even more with their terrific books! 2) THERE'S HOPE FOR YOU if you don't like reading now. Maybe this blog will be the motivation for you that the summer reading program was for me! That's it for the post! I hope you enjoyed it! See you on Tuesday for the second edition of my post series Let's Start a Discussion! -Phoebe (exec. worm)
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