A Readers Reflection

~ A Best Sellers or Literature ?~

 I believe there is and there is not a difference between best sellers and literature. Literature at one time or another could have been a best seller. Literature is also very popular, most literature is known by many people, as many schools use literary works, in their teachings. Also when people discuss books or when we think of books, the first ones we normally think of are literary works, not best seller. However in regards to best sellers, I find that they are very popular and people can talk about them frequently, but that does not make them good literature. The best sellers would have to be well written holding a good story and giving us a new perspective on something in order to be considered literary. For example the Book Fifty Shades of Grey is at the moment a best seller however in my opinion I do not see it as literature.It is about the intimate relationship between a woman in her early twenties and a business executive in his twenties; the topics of this books is just something people should not really read and to be honest it doesn’t portray a message. Fifty shades and best sellers are just fads. A best seller must be on the list for years at the time being well written holding a good story line to be considered literature.

Why I Read.

Why do I read? Well there are many reasons why, but if I narrowed them all down to one specific reason it would be to escape. Now I don’t try to escape my life because it’s real horrible or because it’s extremely fun. No. My life is pretty simple, I read to go on adventures and try something new.  I escape because things like the life of a girl in a utopian society or the life of a teen spy are things that I do not encounter on my day to day bases, and I want to experience them. I read books like Harry Potter, to try out the adventure of being “the chosen one”. Being a kid who sure is sent to a boarding school, but the school is a enormous castle where he and his friends live together and get to go on wild adventures. In the book of the Secret Society I get to be a teen wrapped up in the lushes of Manhattan getting anything I want as long as I can keep a secret.  The danger and excitement of that story is what drove me to read it not wanting to leave the adventure. Both of those stories are things that I would never have the chance to experience in my life. Thanks to books I am no longer a girl living her life in the Mason bubble, but anyone who I want to be.