My Reading History

        I was a reader in Mandarin. I used to read Chinese literature, such as茶花女,苦兒流浪記, and小婦人 because my mother requested my brothers and me to develop the habit of reading. To push us to read a lot of books, my mother would accompany us to read in our room every day and often took us to the library. Also, my parents bought a wide range of books such as Chinese literature, encyclopedia, and novels to name just a few with an eye to arouse our interest. Compared to my older brother, I don’t really like reading books. I prefer to watch dramas or movies because I think books are always full of words and make me spend a lot of time reading them. When I was a junior high school student, I only read reference books or extracurricular books related to what I learned at school. Because of schoolwork, I was fed up with reading so I seldom go to the library since then. Until my summer vacation, sometimes I would read comic books, detective books, and romantic novels to kill time. When I was a high school student, I began to read books because my homeroom teacher suggested that we read books to enhance our background knowledge and asked us to join the reading report competition held by the government. After graduating from high school, I read some English materials to maintain my English ability but mostly I hung out with my friends. To me, summer was a thief who stole my English skills and I found my English level terrible. At college, I read a few English novels and I never finished them because there were lots of words I have never seen before so that I couldn’t figure out the plot of these books. I didn’t have a passion for reading English books. Now, I am going to embark on my reading journey.