Goosebumps?? Really??

I always grew up thinking reading wasn’t a big deal. I was never the type to read growing up. This all changed when I grabbed my first Goosebumps book. The author is R.L Stine. At this time I was already aware of the t.v series they had with the books. I remember going to the library and always checking to see if they had any new Goosebumps books first. I enjoyed reading them because I had already seen some t.v episodes and wanted to see how the books were compared to the show. At this time I was around 2nd or 3rd grade. I loved the fact how the ending of every book and show, it left you with a big cliff hanger. I also liked the fact that every single book was a completely new story, although they did have a few part two and part threes. I guess a big part that made me interested in Goosebumps was because I had also liked horror topics. I used to always go for the horror books and always wanted to see the horror movies and things of that nature. Once I had read a couple of my first Goosebumps series, I was hooked. I really don’t know what it was. Maybe it was the cheesy horror, but I think it was just cause you are young, and young kids get amused easily. After reading my share of Goosebumps books, I started reading other series like Jigsaw Jones and The Magic Tree House. I actually started to enjoy reading at that age. It was when I was in middle school where it seemed that I lost interest in reading. I remember trying to read books by Stephen King when I was near 9th grade. I think since I tried to read such an advance book, I didn’t understand much so therefore I kind of just gave up on the whole thing. It seems like a shame now to me, how I really did go from enjoying reading to not ever wanting to read on my own time. I was always told by my dad that reading is the key to knowledge. You can learn more than you think if you just read a book here and there. He always said that if I read more, I could get better grades. I didn’t really listen because I didn’t know how that works out. I had decent grades in high school, I just stop and think sometimes what I could have accomplished if I really tried and put more effort in my readings and school work. Maybe I could have been that special one somebody that people would remember.

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