Patrice Michelle - Turning Readers On!

I’ve been an avid reader since I was ten years old. Blame it on the elementary
school’s reading program (re: read twenty books in a month and win a prize!). I
wanted that prize, so I read the twenty books. Along the way, I discovered…I
LOVED reading. Since then, I’ve always had my nose stuck in a book, much to my
childhood best friend’s annoyance.

When I was in tenth grade and my older sister was in twelfth, she brought home
an assigned reading book. The fiction book sat in the exact same spot she’d
dumped it—on the chair next to the stairs—for days. After a week of passing by
this book, I picked it up and read the blurb on the back. A mystery to solve
and a love story…hmmm, it didn’t sound too bad. I sat down that night and read
the entire book and I loved it! I was so excited about the story that I told my
sister all about it, hoping I could get her excited enough to read it herself.
While I blabbed on and on, my sister nodded and uh huh’d and smiled. The next
day she wrote the book report and turned it in. Got a B, too. *rolling eyes*
:-) So much for trying to get my sister interested in reading.