In high school, I spent most of my free time reading. I loved romance from the beginning. I’ll be the first to admit I had and still slightly have a tendency to fall in love with fictional characters. Edward Cullen was my first love. After I finished Twilight, I read anything and everything with a romantic plot. I would dream of a romance like the ones in my books and would even find myself resenting my boyfriend of the moment for not being like my favorite love interests. I read during breaks in class and in the lobby at lunch. I hated when schoolwork needed to take priority and when staying up reading meant struggling to stay awake the next day. It was the number one reason I loved summer break.
As soon as we could drive, my best friend,
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The Notebook Girls is a non-fiction young adult novel. It is several of the girls’ notebooks put together. Instead of being typed and transcribed, the pages were all scanned to create a photocopied version of their original diaries. Robyn initially bought the book and we read it aloud to each other laughing and gasping at the girls’ entries. The authors were candid and explicit at times and it kept us intrigued. We decided we needed to create our own notebook. We decorated a composition notebook with stickers, lyrics, doodles, and pictures. Our notebook contained notes on the books we were reading, ideas for future stories, alternative endings or couplings, and additional high school gossip. Every now and then Robyn or I will remember the notebook and wonder where we kept it. It’s been about eight years and the book is still missing in …show more content…
Some of my favorite reading memories revolve around discussing them with my friends. I realize now the Twilight saga and the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy weren’t literary masterpieces, but that’s not why I loved them. My friends and I would stay up late talking about how perfect Edward was and how wrong Bella was for him. We made playlists to go along with the story and Googled the perfect actors to play the characters. I was in college when Fifty Shades was released and my roommate and I acted exactly the same as I did with Twilight in high school. Reading was fun because it was a group activity. As an avid movie watcher, I cannot imagine going to the theater and watching a movie alone. Looking at your friend or date and expressing the shock of a plot twist or laughing because the newest Pixar movie made you cry is an important part of the movie watching experience. It is well known movies are a social experience. You spend the entire drive home talking about the movie, and if it was good enough, see it