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Essay / Overcoming anxiety related to reading and writing: a personal experience...
I started reading for fun. I went to the library more to pick up books that seemed interesting. I started the Hunger Games series and found I was hooked. This is the first series I've read in two weeks. A few weeks earlier, reading anything was a chore, taking me up to three weeks to just read one book. But with the help of my sister, I pushed myself based on what my sister was doing, I found it got easier and easier. I started to like reading. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would actually enjoy reading words in a book. Not only did reading help my grades increase significantly, but I found something I enjoyed doing, it even made reading textbooks or books assigned at school much easier to complete. My attitude towards reading was no longer bitter, I discovered that reading was my escape from