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My ideal bookshelf
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When I first started reading I completely hated every aspect of it. It was boring, I couldn’t spend my time outside, and I thought that it was a complete waste of time. But then in 3rd or 4th grade I read my first Harry Potter and was completely blown away by how great it was. J. K. Rowling opened a completely new world to me. Suddenly reading became very interesting and I started reading more and more, at the same time I also started to get more and more interested in reading too. By 5th grade I reached a point where I read a new book every week. And even further if a book really interested me I was able to speed up this reading process even more. For example Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix interested me so much that I just read day and night for 3 days and after that I was finished with 766 pages of it. Another author that really inspired and influenced me before is Eoin Colfer with his Artemis Fowl series. This series just full on captured my attention completely after the first page. I just loved Eoin Colfer’s style of writing, and this book was just one of these books that after I picked it up and read the first page, I couldn’t stop reading anymore. To mention another book that had the same effect on me and that I recently read, this book was Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney. The book is about a boy a boy that finds an envelope containing scabs from Variola Major or smallpox in an old book. He then thinks that he infected himself and that he is also showing some of the system. After that he tries to kill himself in order to stop the outbreak and Epidemy of the highly contagious disease that could destroy the world, as we know it. Before he succeeds doing this, he gets kidnapped by international terrorists, who want to use him as a weapon to erase humanity. This book really made me think and also showed me how easily it would be possible that a highly contagious disease could spread easily around the world. Mainly because of



References: Jonathan W. Steed and Jerry L. Atwood (2009). Supramolecular Chemistry (2nd ed.). John Wiley and Sons. p. 844. ISBN 978-0-470-51234-0.

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