The last eighteen years of my life have been a major growing process for me, not only physically but also mentally. I am the second oldest of four children, and the first daughter. I have many hobbies, but out of all of them I enjoy reading the most. Out of all the essays we have discussed, I personally connect with "In Love with Books" by Eudora Welty. "In Love with Books" is an essay written to express the author's love of reading any book she could get a hold of, as a child and teen I was the same way I loved to read any book especially one book called A Solitary Blue one that I have read many times.

Reading as a child was something my parents always enforced. I could not read comics or magazines; my parents wanted me to read something of substance that I...