Connecting Reading to Life Experiences

I seem to read books mostly about teens and boys and silly stuff. I call them "female tales", you know, like "chick flicks"? Well I just finished reading the third Maximum Ride book :) They are really really good. Some of the similar stuff in my life are...

A) Max takes care of the flock, I take care of my little cousins.

B) Max has an attitude, I have an attitude :)

C) Nudge talks and talks, & I am quite the loquacious one :)

D) They take care of themselves, I would be able to do that.

Well, I guess it's not a whole lot, but I'm not really "saving the world" and I'm not exactly a bird-human hybrid, either. My life doesn't really merge into the story much, but there are some good similarities.

But I think it applies to a lot of other people's lives, if not mine. Here's why:

A) Max & the flock are always on the run from Whitecoats and Erasers ; People are always on the run from bullies.

B) The flock is extremely anxious to find their parents ; There are a lot of kids out there, looking for their parents.

C) The flock's kind of "abused" by the Whitecoats ; Child Abuse!!!

D) Max is all "save the world" ; Environmental Scientists wanna save the world too!

E) The flock and Erasers are "experiments" ; There probably are "experiments", but we just don't know it yet...

That's all I can come up with for now, but maybe there's more, I just need to finish reading the series ;D

Highlights & Lowlights of Reading :]

Well I think reading is excellent cuz it's like TV but in your head. Reading is fun to me because I am the one who gets to imagine how everything is happening. I like reading a variety of books, from suspense and mystery to comedy and science fiction. Reading also helps my writing skills improve because it expands the depth of my imagination. Every time I finish reading a really good book, I take a deep breath and say "Wow, that was a really good book!" Reading is my way of escaping reality but also diving into it @ the same time. I love how books can be about anything, and anything can happen in books.

Recently, I read really good books like "Elsewhere" and "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Although both books were about completely differerent topics, they were both fun and enjoyable to read. They were both books that I've read before, but I enjoyed reading them again. "Elsewhere" is amazing. It's one of my favorites. It talks about a girl who dies and goes to nope, not heaven---but Elsewhere. There she changes as a person and blahblahblah (don't wanna spoil the story) and it's just a really really lovely story. "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" was more of a comedy, but it's also a really good story when you read between the lines. It made me wanna crack up and cry @ the same time. It covered issues and stuff but still cracked jokes in the text, which made the book a lot more interesting.

I don't think there's a lot of lowlights to reading. Unless you're reading a really really boring book. Then, reading sucks :( People seem to really dread reading, but I think it's only boring when it's assignments or stuff like that. Basically, I don't think reading has any lowlights :)