Lord of the Rings: Week 3 and My Reading Story

This week, I got to page 172 in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. I didn't get too much further due to being sick for two days. In this time, Merry arrives in the city, greatly wounded. He meets up with Pippin and together, they travel to the House of Healing to get Merry help. The shadow has come for Merry, Faramir, and Éowyn. Aragorn hears of this and goes to help them. He ends up sending away the shadow and helps to guide all three of them back to health. People all over the city speak of the return of the great king. Later, the leaders meet and try to decide what to do in the war. They end up deciding to take a group of troops into Mordor. They then set off on this perilous journey, Merry being the only one of the company left behind because of his injury. As they descend into Mordor, fear grows as a heavy weight upon their shoulders until they finally arrive at the great doors of the Black Gate. Once there, the evil Mouth of Sauron (A terrible dark rider, servant of Sauron) rides out to confront the company. That is where I have left off for now. Next week, I will be reading about Frodo and Sam's journey with the ring as it jumps over to that after the switch to Book 6.

Now for the weekly question: What is your reading "story"? Was there a particular book that got you interested in reading? Did you family read a lot together? Did siblings read to you or did you watch them read? Was there a specific person who influenced you to read? How did you become a "reader"?

Reading is not really something that was encouraged by one source. I got interested in reading from my parents and at school when I was very young. There really is not one book that comes to mind when I think about why I started reading. My parents read to me when I was young as well. I got more in to reading in 4th grade when my teacher read us books in class that I was very interested in. After that, I started reading some really fantastic books in Middle School that still remain to be my favorites today. I think I really found some genres of books that I liked mainly during that period and just continued on after that. I also started doing the summer reading program and read much more over the summer. I even volunteered at the library for the summer reading program every summer since the one before 8th grade. Reading has been such a major part of my life and has told me stories that I will never forget.