My Nighttime Escape

Throughout my life, I have been enthralled by literature. In school I succeeded in writing, english and other language classes, although I didn't enjoy it. What I really liked about literature, were my nighttime adventures. These consisted of getting lost in literature. Lost in a book.

From the time I was got my first Harry Potter book, to the last novel in the Eragon series, I would go to bed around 10:30, and read till the late hours of the night, losing my own identity in the stories I would read. I especially loved the genre of fantasy and science fiction, things that seemed so awe inspiring to me. It was then that I really learned to love reading, and learned to put myself in the novel.

Unfortunately, these nighttime escapes haven't withstood the test of time. I haven't been able to continue this routine throughout the years, although I wish I could have. Now my reading consists mostly of textbooks and the Book of Mormon. As I devote more and more time to reading the Book of Mormon, it surprises me that the same feelings I got while reading as a kid would return, and I could escape into the novel. The Book of Mormon is something that has shaped my literary knowledge and my life, more than anything else in the world, and it contributes more to my life daily than most anything else.

While I have some knowledge of literature, I still have much more to learn, and definitely many more pieces of literature to read.