Reflect on your own personal experience with books. Write about a book that impacted you in some way

For this response paper, I want you to reflect on your own personal experience with books. Write about a book that impacted you in some way. It can be a book you read when you were young, or even a book a parent, family member or teacher read to you. It can be fiction or non-fiction. It can be a book you’re reading now. What about the book resonated with you? Was it learning about something new? The feeling of being transported into a different world? Did you feel connected to the story, or the characters? Did it offer you a different way to view the world? 

Books are our first form of mass media. More than 550 years after the (re)invention of the printing press, new books are continuously being published — hundreds of thousands each year. Why do you think this form of mass media remains popular?