How Long Have You Been A Book Fanatic?

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

I've loved reading my entire life, but it wasn't until a few years ago (when I discovered YA books) that I became a true Book Fanatic. Now I'm downright addicted.

SOOooo... Tell me about when you first became a legit Book Fanatic! What book/s first spurred your interest in reading?

[Parker]

For me its for as long as I can remember I don't remember a time where I didn't love books!!!

[Heather]

I was ten your old. Reading Dr. Seuss in school.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Parker wrote: "For me its for as long as I can remember I don't remember a time where I didn't love books!!!"

I know what you mean. I've always at least liked reading. I just blows my mind when people say they don't like to read.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Elizabeth wrote: "At first I didn't like books. Didn't want to be caught dead with one then I read Eragon and everything changed. I couldnt stop going into the library and at the end of Two week my local and school ..."

I loved The Inheritance cycle books!

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Ikr? And it was really sad about him and arya. And murtagh. Inheritance was a sad book. I almost cried at the end. Still loved it tho!:)

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Yeah that was so sad. I wonder if Arya ever really loved him....

We shoulda seen it coming though. There was the prophecy.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

But by the time of the last book it had to have been a couple years since the guy she loved died. She should've been over him by then and given Eragon a chance.

[coconutsnbutts (♫ נєѕѕι¢α ♪), The Wolf]

Heather wrote: "I was ten your old. Reading Dr. Seuss in school."

this made me smile.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Elizabeth wrote: "LOL she REALLY should have Eragon was awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How could she not love him..."

We may never know...

[Angelli]

oh I read Inheritance too and it was a luttle frustrating at the end but I still love the books. I think maybe if he could stay there maybe Arya could travel where he went, right? but it was so melodramatic really... i believe she did love him but still felt responsable first for the elves. Or maybe cuz they both can live a long time and it was not the time to be together.

Anyway, the first book I remember reading was little women (the happy version) when I was like seven but the one that kept me reading was HP 1 when I was 8... and my sister and I sort of competed to see who read it faster. Since then I always have a book with me :)

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Elizabeth wrote: "Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "LOL she REALLY should have Eragon was awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How could she not..."

Yeah and Insurgent:). Can't wait for the third book!!!!!

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Angelli wrote: "oh I read Inheritance too and it was a luttle frustrating at the end but I still love the books. I think maybe if he could stay there maybe Arya could travel where he went, right? but it was so mel..."

I read little women too (them happy version and the sad version lol) my sister really likes the movie, even tho I think it's SO LAME. But to each his own:).

Believe it or not, in all my years of reading, I have never read any Harry Potter books, even though everyone talks about how great they are. You sound like me and my sister, tho (always competing lol).

[Angelli]

Yeah I really didnt like the movie either...
Also a book that I loved and got me into reading was The neverending Story, I have read it at least 3 times and never gets old!

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Angelli wrote: "Yeah I really didnt like the movie either...
Also a book that I loved and got me into reading was The neverending Story, I have read it at least 3 times and never gets old!"

Wasn't that a movie too?

[Angelli]

yep but the book is way better!!

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Elizabeth wrote: "Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "LOL she REALLY should have Eragon was awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..."

Because divergence is a combination of what all of the factions were striving for:

Erudite: intelligence
Candor:honesty
Abnegation: selflessness
Dauntless: bravery
Amity: peacefulness

People who are divergent have a high tendency towards more than one of these things.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Elizabeth wrote: "I guess what I am saying is if they are the only ones who have these quality yet are about to go out into a world that has none of them how will that help why didnt they just bring everyone they co..."

I think it's because they only wanted the people with the highest chance of being better than the people before them. They don't want people who are going to the same as before.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Idk. I guess they didn't think the factions were gonna turnout that way, fighting and all.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Elizabeth wrote: "Yeap!!! I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me."

LOL!

[Tabreya]

"Four scores and seven years ago..." Lol I'm just joking. I think I have always loved to read but I turned into a reading addict in 5th grade.

[Alicia]

There is already quite a discussion, but I'll answer the topic question, if you all don't mind.
I started reading chapter books when I was in Kindergarten. I know, pretty strange for a girl that young to start reading, especially chapter books, but I've never been normal. Since then, I've always challenged myself with books and developed a love for them. Basically, books became my escape and I love them more than anything.

[Imari]

My mother basically used books as my babysitter ;). When I was small I had this thing about not going to bed when she wasn't there (she had to work and my grandmother had to watch me) and so she started buying me books. She would read the first chapter with me then head off to work. When she came home I would tell her about it. Picture books became annoying and I started to love reading Junie B. Jones and anything by Beverly Cleary. By the time second grade was over, I had an eighth grade reading level (sometimes I feel like that hasn't changed much score rise xD).

[Rebekah]

I think people always read, but for me it wasn't until about third grade that I began to really read for fun. Though I started big books (no magic tree house or Junie B Jones which I read for like, ever) in about fourth grade. And now.....BOOKS FOREVER :)

[Lina]

I've always been a reader, but when I was nine I discovered the great and beautiful Harry Potter. Since then I've read a lot of fantasy, demanding to find anything that is remotely as good as Harry Potter... I even got a HP-tattoo (just a couple of years ago today actually). After I admitted defeat, I read Twilight, and got full on hooked on YA. After that, I've read pretty much everything. So, I was about fifteen when I started reading everything I could stumble over? But nine when my passion for reading began.

[Kaitlyn]

I have hated to read most of my life but I was in love with the idea of having a lot of books in an in home library lol but I always got board within the first few pages and moved to doing something else. I had a reading issue as a young child I would take words out of a sentence and change the sentence around altering the meaning of words and the story itself. No one really set down and explained in detail what types of books there really where. I have gotten into fantasy books, fiction mostly and I am attracted to youth fiction. Sometimes I feel like for a 22 year old to still be interested in youth fiction isn't a good thing but I am addicted to it. I stated getting interested in reading when I started reading the twilight series. I am not a big fan of the movie characters I just enjoyed the deep love that someone can show to another and from there I was hooked my love life started in a book sort of. I moved on to The Fifty Shades of Grey and I haven't stopped reading since. I get the best updates on new books now that I work at a public library. Any books that anyone knows of that may spark my interested I welcome them to share them with me I am open to suggestions.

[Jennifer, The Jaguar]

Kaitlyn wrote: "I have hated to read most of my life but I was in love with the idea of having a lot of books in an in home library lol but I always got board within the first few pages and moved to doing somethin..."

I don't think it's at all weird for a 22-year-old to like YA books. I still read middle-grade books, after all.

I would recommend The Hunger Games for you:)

[Lina]

Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "Kaitlyn wrote: "I have hated to read most of my life but I was in love with the idea of having a lot of books in an in home library lol but I always got board within the first few pages and moved t..."

I don't think it's weird either. They're good entertainment, easy to get through, and one can read a shitload in just a few days. I love them as well!

[Kaitlyn]

Lina wrote: "Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "Kaitlyn wrote: "I have hated to read most of my life but I was in love with the idea of having a lot of books in an in home library lol but I always got..."

It seems to me that some of the best imaginative minds are writing YA now and its amazing to just take yourself out of reality and loose yourself in a book.

[Lina]

The shame about YA-novels, is that the writing in itself isn't exactly splendid. Yes, there are good ideas, but most YA books could need another round at the editor. And that's a shame, because as you said, very imaginative minds write YA.

[coconutsnbutts (♫ נєѕѕι¢α ♪), The Wolf]

Kaitlyn wrote: "Lina wrote: "Asch's Anti-Paradigm (JennTheAwesum) wrote: "Kaitlyn wrote: "I have hated to read most of my life but I was in love with the idea of having a lot of books in an in home library lol but..."

I completely agree! I think its because they know younger people are more receptive to imaginative concepts.

Lina wrote: "The shame about YA-novels, is that the writing in itself isn't exactly splendid. Yes, there are good ideas, but most YA books could need another round at the editor. And that's a shame, because as ..."

Haha, yeah. I've read some books and I've been like, how the HECK did this even get published?!?!? But then again, there's books like that of every genre.

[Kaitlyn]

I know but with my reading issues I have had I barley notice it. When I was little I would change words around in a story and it would mean something different than what actually written there so I sometimes correct the grammar and things like that automatically... I consider my reading issues to be a form of disability but its not severe by any means it just is enough to aggravate me... when I notice it that is

[Lina]

*coughing wildly* vampire books *coughs some more*. Not all of them, mind you, but a lot of them have a... flat language. Or a very exploding one... I just. Yes, vampires all the way, but please a little less badly published ones.

[Kaitlyn]

well I am trying to overcome it by setting goals for myself and asking others what books they like and see if we have the same interested and if we do then I pick their brain so to speak

[Ken]

I started becoming book obsessed when I was about 10, and the school did that library/book-order catalog thing. I picked up Lord of the Rings I think. It took me aeons to read it at that age. Been addicted to books ever since. More recently, perhaps 5 years ago, I started becoming serious about building a fine library.

18 years I guess.

Lina, you should read The Historian if you haven't yet.

[Lina]

Kenneth wrote: "I started becoming book obsessed when I was about 10, and the school did that library/book-order catalog thing. I picked up Lord of the Rings I think. It took me aeons to read it at that age. Been ..."

Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at it the next time I'm shopping for books.

[Aiman]

For as long as I can remember

[Aiman]

Lina wrote: "*coughing wildly* vampire books *coughs some more*. Not all of them, mind you, but a lot of them have a... flat language. Or a very exploding one... I just. Yes, vampires all the way, but please a ..."

ikr

[Jojobean]

Since I was little. My mom works at the library so she would bring me any books I wanted. I always loved reading

[Izzy]

Since I was 7 when I read HP and LOTR!!

[Maggie the Muskoka Library Mouse]

I have always been a book fanatic. I was reading "Lord of the Rings" in Grade Five. The first book I remember really being into was called "Little Blue Eyes," and it was a gift from my mother.