Boann

Books are my passion more so then anything else in my life. The amazing adventures that we can take, the lessons we can learn, and the heart ache we can feel without ever leaving our own home, our most comfortable reading chair, are amazing.

My mother insisted that I try as hard as I could to read. I was one of those children that... more »

Books are my passion more so then anything else in my life. The amazing adventures that we can take, the lessons we can learn, and the heart ache we can feel without ever leaving our own home, our most comfortable reading chair, are amazing.

My mother insisted that I try as hard as I could to read. I was one of those children that struggled with the skill for many years. It was not until several things came together that I was able to over come my learning hurtles. I needed to have enough experience to over come my learning difficulties, as well as the right teachers to give them to me. But that would have been nothing if I had not had the drive. My mother made certain that I understood just how important it was to read, and helped me discover, though she could hardly read herself, that there was an entire new realm of knowledge and fantasy waiting for me. When these things came together I defied all the odds, not only did I learn to read, but within my fifth grade year I was reading levels a head of the other children. It did not take me long to grasp complex plot motifs, or to begin to compare and contrast what was happening in the books I read with the cartoons I had been watching. Once I started to read there was no stopping me. « less