“How to Read Like a Writer” is an essay by Mike Bunn. It’s to focus on looking deeper into the text for example the writing style, the layout, the wordings, etc. Just reading would be reading and enjoying a book rather than analyzing it.

There have been many times where I saw certain things in black and white. There have been many times where I then saw another persons opinions and their take on a book and it helped me see a bigger picture. Reading can be super broad and up to how the reader takes it. These times are when I really love seeing people’s annotation.

I heavily agree with this. Learning could be just behavior or perspective even from annotations. It helps me understand how other people could have read a certain event and how they felt about it. I love reading annotations because it gives off personality and perspective. I love when people are open minded to see other perspectives and willing to listen. Learned behaviors are a really big thing everyone goes through and being able to broaden your minds really opens you to understand others.

I have seen many annotations specifically in books. I love to read and many of my friends like to read as well. Most of the readers I’ve met have annotated their books. This means adding their reaction to a specific text with words. I like to use thin sticky notes and associate a certain emotion or theme via color and add them to the books to mark parts that really stood out to me. Recently, I bought a book that comes with annotations. It leaves a star after certain words and gives some context to the reader like “remember this name”. I really like that this book came with interactive like annotation on the bottom of the page. I like how annotating books gives readers a way to express themselves into the books they read.