Nothing ventured nothing gained
Years ago when I was in the first year of secondary school I had a teacher that taught us literature; she always made us read a book every two months that at the beginning only had between eighty to a hundred pages. For me to read books was boring- I hated to read- I always thought "How can people spend their time reading? . Normally, I just read the summaries of each book. But despite that I always got good grades. Unsurprisingly when I was in the third year of secondary school, I follow reading summaries, but I listened to my friends that told that the book 'Él cazaba halcones' was a great book, so I had curiosity and when I came to my house and rode the summaries, this caught my attention. Stupidly I told my parents that I wanted them to buy me that book, they were surprised because I had never asked for one , they know that I hated read. But they accepted and we were to Crisol and when I saw the book I loved the picture of the book,I took the risk and I bought it. Eventually I thought it was going to take me two weeks because the book had two hundred pages, but for me surprise i rode the book in three days, I loved the book! Naturally I followed thinking that I lost a lot of time in read this book, and I got the highest grade. Finally, I started to buy books about history, literature, biography of litterateurs, magazines, comics, and more ... Now I loved read books, I learn a lot of things.. Like my mother told me...Nothing ventured nothing gained
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Here is the earlier answer from bosque about your first paragraph.
Unsurprisingly when I was in the third year of secondary school, I follow continued reading summaries, but I listened to my friends [that] who told me that the book 'Él cazaba halcones' was a great book, so I [had curiosity] was curious and when I [came to my house]reached home and [rode] read the summaries, this/it caught my attention. Stupidly I told my parents that I wanted them to buy me that/the book, they were surprised because I had never asked for one , they know that I hated reading. But they accepted [agreed sounds better] and we [were] went to Crisol and when I saw the book I loved the picture of ?the book,I took the risk and I bought it.
[Eventually] At first I thought it was going to take me two weeks because the book [had] was two hundred pages long, but [for] to my [me] surprise I [rode] read the book in three days, I loved the book! Naturally I followed thinking ? that I lost a lot of time [in read] reading this book, and I got the highest grade. Finally, I started to buy books about history, literature, biography of litterateurs? [do you mean authors/writers], magazines, comics, and more ... Now I love[d] reading books, I learn a lot of things.. Like my mother told me,.'.Nothing ventured nothing gained'
I have put a question mark by some things I did not understand. If you add the Spanish we learners can learn good Spanish and give you better corrections
I have replaced follow which is wrong with continued, or carried on is good too. What Spanish word were you using?
In English you do not 'have curiosity/ tener curiosidad you are curious about something.
Came to my house sounds odd - reached or arrived and here home, sounds better than house.
Rode is the past tense of to ride [montar/manejar/tomar etc] The past tense of read is read but when it is the past tense it is pronounced 'red'
were - here it is went past tense of to go. In English the past tense of to be [were] and to go [went] are different whereas in Spanish they are both fuimos.
Here is a site you may find helpful
It was a good effort with some nice phrases. Please ask if you do not understand my corrections. [en inglés o español]
PS for those interested I have looked up the book - the author is Peruvian and here is the front cover picture!
Years ago when I was in the first year of secondary school I had a teacher that taught us literature; she always made us read a book every two months that at the beginning only had between eighty to a hundred pages. For me to read books was boring- I hated to read- I always thought "How can people spend their time reading? Normally, I just read the summaries of each book. But despite that I always got good grades.
For this I would use my more refined second version that I provided in the last answer:
Years ago when I was in the first year of secondary school I had a teacher that taught us literature; she made us read a book every two months that at the beginning had only between eighty and a hundred pages. For me reading books was boring- I hated to read- I always thought "How can people spend their time reading?” Normally, I just read the summaries of each book. But despite that I always got good grades.
Unsurprisingly when I was in the third year of secondary school, I follow reading summaries, but I listened to my friends that told that the book 'Él cazaba halcones' was a great book, so I had curiosity and when I came to my house and rode the summaries, this caught my attention. Stupidly I told my parents that I wanted them to buy me that book, they were surprised because I had never asked for one , they know that I hated read. But they accepted and we were to Crisol and when I saw the book I loved the picture of the book,I took the risk and I bought it. Eventually I thought it was going to take me two weeks because the book had two hundred pages, but for me surprise i rode the book in three days, I loved the book! Naturally I followed thinking that I lost a lot of time in read this book, and I got the highest grade. Finally, I started to buy books about history, literature, biography of litterateurs, magazines, comics, and more ... Now I loved read books, I learn a lot of things.. Like my mother told me...Nothing ventured nothing gained.
I will give you just one version this time, it still has some run-on sentences, but that is how I write as well.
Unsurprisingly when I was in the third year of secondary school, I continued reading summaries, but I listened to my friends who told me that the book 'Él Cazaba Halcones' was a great book, so I was curious and when I got home and read the summary, this caught my attention. Stupidly I told my parents that I wanted them to buy me that book; they were surprised because I had never asked for one, they knew that I hated to read. But they accepted it and we went to Crisol and when I saw the book I loved the picture on the cover of the book. I took the risk and I bought it. I thought it was going to take me two weeks because the book had two hundred pages, but to my surprise I read the book in three days- I loved the book! Naturally I continued thinking that I had lost a lot of time in reading this book, but I got the highest grade. Finally, I started to buy books about history, literature, biographies of writers, magazines, comics, and more ... Now I love reading books, and I learn a lot of things.. Like my mother told me...Nothing ventured nothing gained.
