Hi All,

How old were you when you started reading and why did you start/

below is my story.


I think I was about 17 when I started reading, I wouldn't read any books prior to that and got introuble at school for not having read my english book all the time lol. For some reason I just couldn't get into it until Grade 10 when I had a free class session on my own as my friends had a class. I had only just been to the movies with my family the day before and saw the first Harry potter movie. I mentioned to my friends at morning tea that and that i couldn't wait for the next one to come out. said friends told me that they were books. So I spent my free session in the library. It took me a couple of goes to get into it but I read the 2nd harry potter book that same week.

To this day I still havent read the first harry potter book, during the time until the final harry potter book came out that was the only series or novels I would read until 4 years ago when I was shown the PNR Vampire Academy series. Ever since you never see me without my ebook reader reading PNR series books

Cheers
B

I started reading like crazy when reached 15.
I don't remember the book.

Do you remember why you started reading?

As far as I know I'm already reading at a very young age. I started with fairy tales when I was a toddler move on to archies then sweet valley by francine pascal. In my primary six I've discovered sydney sheldon (nothing last forever) but I have to read it in secret as i was prohibited. Accdg to my mom it was not age appropriate. I just grew up loving books....

I look back now and wish I had grown up reading but for some reason I just couldn't get into it.

Your lucky to have grown up around books/reading.

The story goes that my mother read to/with me from infancy. Then, when i was about thirteen years old, my brother (nine years my senior) came home from college one summer and gave me The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy by Tolkien. I never looked back. It was on. I subsequently read just about everything I could get my hands on. I was reading like a madman, but had no real direction. Enter my tenth grade English Teacher, Miss Beck, who introduced me to many of the classics from the myths of ancient Greece and Rome to the Norse Sagas to Shakespeare to George Orwell and John Steinbeck and beyond.

So, in my case, books were always around the house and I was encouraged to read. My two greatest influences were my brother and my tenth grade English teacher, both of whom I am deeply indebted to. They lead me to a lifetime pursuit of reading and incredible adventure. I count myself as very fortunate indeed for having had both of them.


Enoch

I have always loved reading ever since I can remember, Enid Blyton as a young child was a favourite then CS Lewis and the Chronicles of narnia was abig hit with me around age 10. Loved Adrian Mole books from around age 12/13 - still do.

I read every day mainly crime/murder mysteries, can't stand hearts and flowers fiction.

I also love reading real life murder and mysteries before when I was a young adult specially profiles of serial killers. I also loved suspense and adventures and sci-fi I just cannot explain the shift to historical romances as I mature into adult. I thought it should be the other way around.

[mfgoviedo]

I started reading at 7. My mother has two books: The Iliad and The Odyssey for children. She gave them to me and I started reading them. Since then, I love mithology and all the new worlds that each book that I read opens to me. And I'm a very happy woman that I can read in two languages: spanish and english, so I've got twice the pleasure. Thrillers, Hot romances, Historical, biographies,.... And don't touch my e-reader if you want to live.

I started reading when I was 10. My mother bought the dvd of Harry Potter by accident so I watched it. I fell in love and immediately went to the nearest bookstore to purchase all the books. From then on I started reading other series like Madison Finn, A Series of Unfortunate Events, etc.

Hi All,

How old were you when you started reading and why did you start/

below is my story.


I think I was about 17 when I started reading, I wouldn't read any books prior to that and got introuble at school for not having read my english book all the time lol. For some reason I just couldn't get into it until Grade 10 when I had a free class session on my own as my friends had a class. I had only just been to the movies with my family the day before and saw the first Harry potter movie. I mentioned to my friends at morning tea that and that i couldn't wait for the next one to come out. said friends told me that they were books. So I spent my free session in the library. It took me a couple of goes to get into it but I read the 2nd harry potter book that same week.

To this day I still havent read the first harry potter book, during the time until the final harry potter book came out that was the only series or novels I would read until 4 years ago when I was shown the PNR Vampire Academy series. Ever since you never see me without my ebook reader reading PNR series books

Cheers
B

My story is so familiar it´s a little weird.. i went to the movies with a friend that wanted to watched the new Harry Potter movie, i didnt wanna go but she convinced me and when i saw it i loved it so much i kept going on and on about it, my friend took pitty on me and told that it was based on a book and many of them had already been published, she actualy lend it to me until i started buying my own... I was like 13 maybe 14.

I've been reading (thanks to my mother getting me interested in books) since I was about six, almost fifty years now. In my will I am to be cremated with half a dozen books (might update it to a dozen) so I won't be bored. Science Fiction (started reading it when I eleven) still makes up about 45% of my habit interspersed with any subject that takes my fancy. I don't read much Fantasy however.

It was too early for me to remember clearly so pre-five-year-old. I always remember being able to read from kindergarten on.

To hear my mother tell it, she would sit me in the little fold-out seat in the grocery shopping cart and pick up a Little Golden Book or similar from the magazine rack and hand it to me to keep me busy. If I was quiet and let her do her shopping, she would get it for me and read it to me when we got home. She was surprised when I began reading them out-loud to her while still in the cart, still in the store. Now she also complained that this same strategy did not work on either of younger two siblings. So its hard to tell if it was a developed love of reading or I just started out that way from birth.


On a side note, my daughter also loves reading and she also started her infatuation with books at a very early age. We read to her and she slowly began reading to us. Eventually she could read quite well on her own before actually entering school. Maybe its hereditary. A new species of evolved readers, or homo legentem if you will.

In my will I am to be cremated with half a dozen books (might update it to a dozen) so I won't be bored.

I had never considered this... I will note this and pick out some favorites for myself.

Thanks for the idea.

[firewing]

Not really sure when I became fully tuned into books, but my mother always read the Children's Classics to us as small children. There was NOTHING worse than to have been bad, and missing the story for the night!
I was really getting into reading probably by the 3rd grade....by the 6th grade, I think I'd read every Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys book in our library, and most of the famous Americans series. My Mom had Zane Grey, so all of those followed. Most of my adult life I've read a lot, and much of that was genealogy and the American Civil War. These days, mostly fantasy and mystery/detective novels.