The second reviewers post of this week is coming from Pizzygirl π
When did you start loving books?
Probably not the question you expected from a reviewer to a group of readers. But I am very curious how readers and reviewers and author alile will answer this.
For me, I absolutely HATED reading until highschool when I was forced to read Jane Eyre as part of my summer reading requirements. I was that typical student who put off all the reading I could until the last minute or bought the movie or read the cliffβs/spark notes.
Until Jane Eyre and the Jane Austin books. Because those books were ROMANCES. And I found my passion. From that day on, it was all about the romance novels. I could not read them fast enough and would stay up all hours trying to finish as many as I could.
Since then, I have branched out to Paranormal, Science Fiction and Fantasy. I absolutely love when I can find these three combined with a romance.
So please share, when did you start enjoying reading?
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I always had my head in a book! When I was younger it was Heidi and The Famous Five! At school I even read ahead of our prescibed O Level books – Great Expecations and Day of the Triffids (probably my first paranormal type book!). I do like a good murder mystery – romance included of course!!!
I started reading in JR. High. I had a teacher that would give rewards for reading and it got me into reading not only for the reward but because I really enjoyed it. The one book that really got me reading on my own was Fahrenheit 451.
My mum says that when I was just four years old, she used to leave me in the living room surrounded by books, and that I could spend hours there without saying a word, just looking at the pictures… so for me, loving books has been part of my life since I remember it. I do not remember any time in my life where I was not reading something! π
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love books!
I have Always loved to read. From the moment i could read i loved it. When i was a kid i even helped in the local library π
An aunt sent Nancy Drew books to me for Christmas. I think this was 4th grade. That was the beginning.
I started reading in the 3rd or 4th grade when I discovered The Boxcar Children.Totally dating myself here.
From the very beginning. I learned how to read before I went to kindergarten and have never stopped.
I’ve always read. I really can’t remember a time when I wasn’t read to or wasn’t reading on my own. It was my main source of entertainment as a child.
I have always loved to read.
I always loved reading books. Just not the one’s we had to read in school. The reason for that is that we had to interpret the books and I made the experience that teachers hat a certain interpretation in mind and if you interpreted the book differently, they would tell you that you were “wrong”. That really discouraged me at that time.
When I went to university that changed, here I could chose my courses and I had quite a few cool lecturers who were pretty open-minded. I think the first book I really liked was Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Thanks for reviewing and the giveaway. I probably started loving to read even before I remember. My Mom would have known, but she’s recently passed, yet we found those treasures in things she kept, like the fairytale books from 60 years ago, and one I remember reading over & over: “The Boy Who Ate Flowers” by Nancy Sherman (lol).
ALWAYS! Since I could read. I still have my original version of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish – which I left out in the rain. When I was about 50 my mother actually bought me a new copy! π My sister ALWAYS complained that I was reading and wouldn’t play with her π