Literacy Narrative

I was introduced to reading by my Mom by her reading out loud while my older brother was at school. She helped me work through everything from picture books to comprehensive historical essays. By the time I entered grade school, the trips to the library at school were always kind of weird. I was reading near middle school level by second grade, wrote my book reports on unabridged copies of novels like 20000 Leagues Under the Sea and Animal Farm, and read any chance I could get, sometimes to the ire of my teachers. I never really read very much at home because most of my free time was spent playing and messing around with my brother. While we normally did not talk about school work or learning, we were very competitive. This lead to an interesting contest on a road trip. He had a reading list for the summer and I was bored. So my mom made me a similar book list and challenged us to be the first one done. He was reading lower high school level books, and I was reading upper middle school  level books. He was on the last chapter of 1984 while I had just finished Das Boot. I was then able to gloat about it to him for the rest of the summer. I mostly read now to pass time during online games in between matches on Halo 3. I have recently started heavily reading fan fictions about My Little Pony: Friendship is magic. I plan on trying to achieve a history major and I also now have started heavily reading historical essays and research documents. I truly loathe Shakespeare.