Recently, I was not only able to get my boyfriend to read The Maze Runner (...that's true love..) but I was also able to get his baby sister (she's 14/15, so not a baaaby, but you know what I mean) to read The Fault In Our Stars.
I told her the movie can be as good as it wants, but it will never be better than actually reading the book. When she told me that she didn't want to go out and buy the book, I told her that there was no need to, I'd even let her borrow my BRAND NEW UNREAD COPY!
...if you know me, you know that I get paranoid about letting people borrow my books. The bent pages, the creases in the spine, just thinking about it gives me goose bumps. But in this case, I was desperate. Shawnee, my best friend, isn't very romance-y, and I needed someone to rave with!
I even caught her reading it, when I came over for dinner the next day, and couldn't help myself but to ask her thirty billion questions about what she thinks so far! It was almost like Christmas morning giddy-ness. I couldn't resist.
In the end, she loved it.
I know that's only two people, but it's my goal to get them to read more and more. And to turn non-readers, into bookworms! Have you ever gotten someone to a book that you ABSOLUTELY loved? How did it work out? Did they love it just as much as you did?!
Let me know!
I made half of my whole entire school read Divergent AND The Fault in Our Stars. They all loved it, even the boys. I felt so.... on top of the world. My best friend came to me holding Divergent one day and I started yelling at her to "Read, read, read!"
ReplyDeleteCarly
Haha, I know! I love the feeling of getting someone to read! I don't really know why, but I do! Good job!
DeleteLisa
I know what you mean!! (And I also call my sister my "baby sister", when she's like 16 and as tall as me and much, much smarter, but whatever. Got to keep the reality around them.) I get very paranoid about lending my books. My sister wanted to borrow Unhinged, and ohhh...I had doubts. >.< But I'm NICE and I let her! YAY for getting people to read! I've gotten several people to read with the weirdest books...one was Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. My friend never ever read, but then she read all 4 of them, sooo...score!
ReplyDeleteBaby sister to me, means that younger not a baby. And I KNOW! Getting someone to read, is just this weird good feeling! She read all for books? WOW that's crazy! I'm not on that level yet!
DeleteLisa
I haven't had that luck before. My brother and my husband, they just don't like to read. But my mom is a book lover and I give her my books to read when I think that she might love them. Also, my best friend loves to read too and she always wants reading recommendations from me since we have the same taste in books.
ReplyDeleteWell you're surrounded by people who read. No one around me really reads except one of my friends, who's books interests aren't exactly the same as mine. So I'm always looking for someone to talk books with, even if it is a stranger at the book store...
DeleteLisa
I have never been able to get a non-reader to read!!! Bravo. My husband reads so if I really really like a book I can sometimes get him to read the same book. But that's rare.
ReplyDeleteIt feels good to have someone who doesn't read, read. I don't know, I think I get WAY more excited about the whole thing than the person themselves. I've been trying to convince them each to continue reading the authors' other books! But have yet to be successful!
DeleteLisa