Harry Potter

A favourite book of mine as a young person was the magical series of Harry Potter. I remember when my third grade teacher showed us the first instalment of the series called The Philosopher’s Stone. The world that Harry lived in was a place filled with wizards, witches and spells and potions. The real hook in that book was imagining what it would be like to live in a world like the wizard world and to go to a school like Hogwarts. Eventually it went to a point that I was not enjoying the books anymore, I had lost the thrill of fantasy novels. Now I seemed to have changed the types of novels that I prefer to read, more in-depth, serious novels catch my eye.

Children's Fantasy books

When I was younger I still liked to read, and my favourite type of novels were fantasy novels. I like reading fantasy books because they give me with a different point of view on the world. I like to think about it using the analogy to the world that you may live in but you will never be able to understand if you do not move outside and look at it from a new perspective. You can see a great deal of small details in fantasy books that you may be able to miss in your everyday life just because they are not gaining enough of your attention. Fantasy is about the world we would like to see, a dream we want to pursue. Where would we be at if we didn't dream?

Reasons to like Reading

Another good thing about reading is that no one can decide what you want to see in the novels. The characters, places and events come and annex your mind with the literary content. Then when novels turn into movies, our imagination changes, since it was not what we first thought. Directors take out certain chapters and events that were important in our minds. They do that to fit the timeslot of the movie since novels are usually longer than scripts. Our characters that we thought of are changed to a different looking person, usually, and the settings are not what they first seemed. The film that was made was the directors’ vision and his or her imagination that took place and when we read it’s our own.