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Collected Item: “Leaning Tower of Books”

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Leaning Tower of Books

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

It is a picture I took of all the books I was able to read over the course of the first few months of the pandemic.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

I was never really someone who enjoyed reading, or at least I didn’t by choice decide to pick up a book and read for fun. I would only pick up a book if school required me to. But since the start of the pandemic, I have had a lot more free time and I have had to find ways to fill that time. So I started picking books that seemed interesting, and once I started, I was fully engaged until the last page. And over the course of the summer which is roughly 3 months, I have been able to finish at least 6 books, breaking any record I might have had for summer reading.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#BookWorm, #nexgenacademy, #newtechnetwork

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Dillon Neely

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2020-08-20
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