davidh90

Everyone has their hobbies, well for me, there is nothing better than a good book. I absolutely love to read, it is my passion. If the book is good enough, I can sit down and read it over and over again. Some people have asked me how I can do this because I already know what is going to happen, but I don't read it right away, I wait a bit and read another book. I have read the entire Harry Potter series about 4 times, and I am making my way through it once again. But that does not count the times that I have read the books individually.  Before the HP series, I didn't really like to read all that much, but then my mom actually forced me to read the first HP book, it took me 2 months!, the second one on the other hand, only took me 2 weeks, since then I have waited on bated breath for the books to come out, and on release day, I was one of the first people on the west coast to get my hands on these books. I read the 6th and 7th books the same day they came out, I didn't eat anything because I was so absorbed in the story unfolding before me that I completely forgot about my surroundings, and my hunger and just read the entire day, only pausing for bathroom breaks, In the fourth grade my parents actually had to take the books away from me, because they were interfering with my school work. I love to read so much that I could be reading for hours upon hours, and for me, it would only seem like 1 hour. I lose track of time when I am reading. My mom once told me that the house could be falling down while I am reading, and I wouldn't even notice. I once started reading the 1st Harry Potter book, for the umpteenth time, at 8 o'clock in the evening, and told myself that I would stop at 10 o'clock, and I started reading, before I knew it, my mom was getting up for the day and asked me when I got up, I turned around and asked why was she up and getting ready so late at night and she told me it was 5:30 in the morning, I had read all night long, and I still didn't want to go to bed, I wanted to finish the book and move onto the next book in the series. That is how enthralled I am by reading. I blink away sleep like it is nothing more than an annoying gnat. Besides the entrancing story lines, the plots, and the twists and turns within the storyline itself, the thing I love most about books is the smell of the pages withing the book. This is the main reason that electronic books will always be second to the real thing for me. I could sit on my couch and open up a book and instantly smell the pages of the book, and start reading. Its always in the back of my head while I am hypnotized by the words on the pages. At one point I even described it as intoxicating for me. If I had to pick my favorite smell in the entire world, it would be the smell of pages within a book.
On the 2 week family vacations that I go on every summer I have to take at least 10 books with me because I know that I will finish them and probably end up rereading at least 3 of them. I am the only one in my family that can read 3 to 5 books at one time and not get confused by them. In all the good books that I read, and am interested in, the story lines just click for me, and I get it almost immediately. I don't know how to explain it in words, I just love to read, I get swept up in the story, and its like my surroundings, and life, just break into pieces and fall away. Don't think that I am just trying to get away from my own life by escaping into books, I love my life, and wouldn't have it any other way. It's just something about reading that pulls at my heart.
I have had, on more than one occasion, people tell me that I am a amazing writer, but whenever I try to start writing, my mind draws a blank. It's like, whenever I try and write, all my knowledge from all the books I have read leaves me and I am stuck looking at a blank page. I think that, because I read so much, I always compare what goes through my head, as I prepare to write, against all that I have read, and I don't think that it is good enough so I discard it immediately.

So my dad's surprise 50th birthday party is over. He loved it he got to see a bunch of his friends that he hasn't seen in forever. The biggest surprise wasn't the party at all, it was seeing my uncle Byron surprise him in Carrows on the 24th (the day before his birthday). He hasn't been out in California in 11 1/2 years! He is basically my god father, he helped raise me when I was a baby so it is awesome that he is out here. He is spending the week with us, and leaving on Friday, and while he is here he, and his 2 daughters are going all around where they use to live and are visiting friends that they haven't seen in over a decade. We (my sister and I) are going to Disneyland and California Adventure on Tuesday, and Wednesday so I can't wait to hang out with him. Though because I have gone so many times, I can't help but feel that I will get bored more than once and actually sit down for a while and read for a bit. I can't help it, I love to read, I am probably the biggest bookworm that I know. lol I am currently reading the Harry Potter Series AGAIN! lol I just love this series, it is what got me into reading in the first place. But more on that in another entry. On Tuesday my mom is going to Havasu with the rest of my dad's side of the family. 18 people in a trailer for a week.... they wanted me to go but I told them that if I went, there wouldn't be 18 people leaving at the end of the week. Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but they can get to be to much very quickly, and living with them for a week would be way to much. I am going up with my dad and my sister on Friday through Sunday, and I still think that that is too much to handle, but I'm still going.... It isn't that they are annoying or anything, it is that they don't realize that I relax in a different way then the rest of the me do, my sister and I are really the only people in the family that read for fun. I go on a family vacation every summer for 2 weeks, and I have to bring at least 10 books, if not more. I just can't relax without a good book. The rest of my family kinda just like to talk and go out on the boat, not me, give me a good book and i will forget everything around me and just get completely absorbed in the book. Even when I was little and couldn't read, I had my uncle B read to me and it wasn't just one book either. =)