New Year, New Challenges.

 The new year,  2017, is a big year for me since I am graduating high school and entering college this year. As I will be making an exciting and yet frightening transition in my life, there will be many new adventures that I will take. For the first half have the new year I want to prepare myself for the important event in most lives of young adults. One goal I care to address is (obviously) my goal for reading. This year I want to try to read books books that are difficult and are at the ‘college level’, which I mean can be read in classes in college. One of my reasons is to be ready when I do encounter difficult books in college; AP Literature and Composition, which I am taking right now does help with that too, but it is always great to read on your own and practice your analyzing skills you learn from class by applying them when reading a difficult book. Reading a difficult book helps you think and gets your brain turning; it’s like exercising the brain, which will be helpful in college because my brain will be strong enough to take on any challenges it throws at me. There is one last goal I have for reading this year, and it is that I want to have diversity in the books I read. What I mean by this is not in genre or time period, but country/culture. Whether the book was written in a different country, the author is from a different country, it takes place in a different country, or the book express a different culture, I want to read it. I have a deep interest in the different cultures countries have that make up this world, and through reading it would be great to learn more, so if anyone has suggestions that fit these criteria, difficult and/or diverse, please comment below!