Hello! Why are you here, and why do you love reading?

[Fiona]

Hey :) I'm Fiona. I'm 35 and I have always, always loved to read. Ange is my dear friend and honorary little sister - we made this group so that we could have intelligent discussion about what we have read and are reading - and hope that some other people might join us.
When I was 3, I was found to be profoundly deaf and in order to teach me to speak, people read to me. Books were taped and I listened to them as I read, too. I fell in love. I've never been without a book since, except for more recent years where cognitive problems stole a lot of my ability to read - a real shame. Trying to get it back!

[Angela]

Thank you so much Fi for your introduction :). It is great!
I hope that being part of this group is going to help in a little way at least towards getting your reading skills up to speed again, and help with enthusiasm too :). I think your story is amazing. xoxo
I have loved to read since i was about 6. Before that, i was struggling to read at school, and my teacher at that time picked up on it (lucky it was picked up early). She advised my Mum a simple task; read with Ange EVERY night at home. So that's what we did and once i discovered what books could offer, i never looked back, and have barely ever been without a book since. I will never forget reading my first chapter book...it was just a little one, a Babysitter's Club one actually...but because it had 'small writing' and 'chapters' in it and was over 30 pages, it was a 'real' book.

[Fiona]

Both of us were read to, and both of us gained our love of books through reading being prescribed as a 'cure' for something!
it truly is a gift. It's made my life magical, and given me a way to escape to another world.
BABYSITTERS CLUB!!! OMG. I could not get enough of them!!!

[Angela]

Yes, they were so much fun! My favourite bits were their club meetings when they'd all be sitting around in Claudia's room braiding Mary-anne's or Claudia's hair, with Kristy manning the appointment book, and they'd be eating Claudia's junk food like Oreos and Twinkies (I was always fascinated by exactly what those are!). And in every book you'd read about each of them, ie Dawn the Californian with long golden hair, Mary-Anne small dark-haired and pretty and shy, Kristy, sporty, brown-hair ponytail, sneakers-and-jeans kind of no-nonsense girl...Oh i got to know them.LOL