I recently wrote a piece for The Sapling about my childhood reading experiences. Here's the link if you'd like to read!
Were you a reader in childhood or did you find books when you got older? The first book you remember absolutely loving?
Were you a reader in childhood or did you find books when you got older? The first book you remember absolutely loving?
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I've been reading as long as I can remember. Longer, in fact. I learned to read before I could speak (which I only began to do under duress, and not until sometime when I was 3), and being hyperlexic, I devoured books! I've always done better with print than speech. (partly because of an auditory processing disorder) In fact, mom had to take my books away (about 30 borrowed from the library; her previously imposed limit, though I much later learned the library's limit was 100) when I was 12 and force me to interact with people. (suffice it to say, it did not have the desired effect, but we didn't know about any of my neurodivergencies, so she was doing what she thought was best, and with a neurotypical, it may have worked). That was when I finally started to watch tv for more than Saturday morning cartoons, and an occasional show. (we didn't have cable, and only three local channels at the time, so, no big loss).
Having started to read when I was 2, I have no idea what my first loved book was. I remember one kid's book though that I had the title of wrong (and I've long since forgotten) that had two mice and a hot air balloon on the cover though that I loved. I still have a few of my favourite books from childhood, but many of them, I've had to buy new copies of as the originals vanished over time. Mom did get me signed up for monthly book clubs for kids though. (A new book through the postal mail each month! Which now seems so archaic, but was the way it was done then... the two I remember are the Disney ones and the "I Want to Know About" series. Of the latter we even found a couple of the originals the other day!)
Always been a big library fan; introduced to them by mom, probably from the time I was born. It was free entertainment. Neither of my brothers took to it the way I did.
Bug in Rug read aloud by me at age 5 to my mother. My older neighbors would babysit me and play school, teaching me the alphabet and how to spell words that summer. I started kindergarten with a fairly advanced reading comprehension level for my year group. It also started a life long love affair with reading.
My mom loved to read and passed her love to me. I remember two children's books I couldn't get enough of her to read. One was called "ABCs" to teach children the alphabet. The other was "A Child's Book of Poems". The poems were age appropriate. The art work in both books were beautiful.
Reading was not the problem for me. It was the comprehension. I had that problem until I was a teenager. What worked? My dad telling me to read Shakespeare out loud. It worked very well because I could "see" what I was reading.
I was a young reader. When I got into elementary school, I was reading my history books. When I graduated from high school, I went into the Navy and my mom threw away my books. Now, I’m in my house with containers of books. 📖🥰🥰
I've reading as long as I can remember. I prefer read than speak. My mom loves to read and I suposse she passed than love to me.
I started reading romantic novels ten years ago, but since then I haven't stoped.
I don't remember not reading and loved going to the library.
I fell in love with Walter, Anne Shirley's son, and he broke my heart. I cried straight through the week and my teachers thought someone in my family died. I've been reading books addictively since I learned (since I was 4 or 5)...
I start reading books with audio books when I was in high school a substitute teacher recommend me reading an audiobooks of a series that I want to read the series was The hunger games and I loved it ever since and I still a different series that's how I fell in love with your series
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