My Career as a Reader Throughout my career as a reader, I have read many books from when I was a kid to the present. I have read many different types of books including children’s books, comic books, drama books, adventure books, autobiographies, fiction and nonfiction. In my career as a reader, my reading experiences as a child, my favorite book as a child and the books I read in grade 9 have influenced my reading career. My reading experiences as a child are one of the three things that have influenced my reading career. When I was very little and had a hard time reading, before I would go to bed my mom or dad would read me a story. The books were about 15 pages long and were an adventure story. My mom and dad read books to be almost every day of the week and sometimes on the weekends. When I was able to read all by myself I got a library card so I could sign out books that I wanted to read by myself. I usually signed out either sports books or adventure books. These books were usually fiction. At school there were times where we could read, so I read a lot at school. My favorite book as a child is the second thing that has impacted my reading career. As a child I would read a lot of different kinds of books, but one of my favorite book series as a child was the books Brady Brady. When I was growing up as a kid I loved to play hockey. I loved the book Brady Brady because it was about hockey and as a kid that’s all I thought about. I also liked many other sports books like Brady Brady but it was without doubt my favorite book as a child. Even though I got bored of just reading one book over and over again Brady Brady was my favorite because every book was different than the last one and they were always about hockey. The books that I read in grade 9 are the last thing that impacted my career as a reader. In grade 9 I didn’t read anything other than what I was assigned in English class. I couldn’t read many books because I was just so busy. I tried to read a couple of books but after I started to read them I got too busy and forgot about them. The one book that I did read though was To Kill a Mockingbird. I found this book interesting and liked how it was written. The book taught me about racism and how dark skin people were treated. The man who was black was accused of raping a woman who was white even though he did not and was only accused because of his skin colour. Other than this book I didn’t read anything else. In my career as a reader these are some of the things that have developed my career and made me a better reader.