What got you into reading?

[Blagica , Challenges]

Alice wrote: "My mom is a reader so we always had books at home. What really got me reading was probably my teacher. Everyday she would read from a child book which I still have at home (it's called the little D..."
Everyone is talking about booktube i will have to look into it. Also your teachers book my nephew is 8 he might like it.

[Jakob]

Blagica wrote: that is a great story and a great way to look at it soaking up information. although dark ages 17-25 thats funny so what are you calling 26-the present?

Oh, there's lots to choose frome, it could definitely be the reading renaissance or the age of enlightenment; since we're borrowing historical terms. Haha. I don't read as much as when I was a kid, but in all fairness I have more responsibilites now and am also reading longer books.

[Blagica , Challenges]

Jakob wrote: "Blagica wrote: that is a great story and a great way to look at it soaking up information. although dark ages 17-25 thats funny so what are you calling 26-the present?

Oh, there's lots to choose f..."

that funny. I hear you on having more responsibilities.

[Jessica]

I have always been a reader thanks to my parents and their love for reading. Grew up with a ridiculous amount of books in our house and I seem to have inherited the book gene. I have fond memories of going to book stores (cute little ones) and picking up about 5-10 books at a time. I'd always be part way done the first book by the time we got home.

Some of my favourite books I read as a kid were The Giver, The Golden Compass series, Redwall series, Mr. Men series, Winnie the Pooh, Paddington, Pippi Longstocking and Harry Potter (as a teenager) - along with many many more! I could probably go on forever.

I didn't read as much in high school or university but in the last few years I have really gotten back into books. Some of my favourites now are 1984, The Night Circus, Middlesex, The Help, My Enemy's Cradle and Still Alice. Yes - I'm all over the map with what I read when it comes to fiction.

[Abi]

We read a lot at school, and I really got into reading in first grade. I remember reading the Boxcar Children series that year. And when I was nine, I read two of my favorite series in the history of the universe (i.e. I still love them now, even if it's been a few years since I last read them), which were Percy Jackson and Harry Potter. I also moved that year, and I remember my mom buying the boxsets and my siblings and I being so excited when they came to our new house. My twin sister and younger sister and I read them all. We may or may not have read the Harry Potter books to the point where books 5, 6, and 7 broke into two or three parts...oops!

[Abi]

Nik wrote: "Stephanie, your story sounds so similar to my own. I also started reading at a really young age, and it was my uncle (to whom I was really close and who recently passed away) who introduced me to t..."

I remember the James Herriott books! :) They were great.

[Ketty]

My mother always read, granted she read erotica books mostly, but still...I was surrounded by books. In fact, my middle name is taken from The Clan of the Cave Bear, so there is that. I was destined to read.

Goosebumps is what really got me. Welcome to Dead House came out in like 1992, I picked it up when I was five and fell in love. I devoured books, more and more, I read through the entire children's section of my library the summer after I moved. I spent more time with the librarians than I did at home. I love books, books are whole other lives I have lived and I never get tired of them. I want more and more.

[William]

Being bored on an airplane got me to read, lol! I would never read, only sit around and solve math/engineering/physics problems. Bored at an airport I saw the book by Randy Pausch called "The Last Lecture", it was a short and inspiring read. This particular book got me into reading in my adult life. And I would say that The Alchemist got me into fiction. Whenever I try to get people into reading I always recommend these two books because they worked for me.

[Michelle]

Like many I've been reading for as long as I remember. Nancy Drew, Little house on the Prairie, Judy Blume.
But that all changed when I was 10 and discovered my moms books inside our coffee table. When she was working I read Thornbirds, Evergreen, Sidney Sheldon etc...thought I was in heaven, Then in grade 7 I discovered The Third Deadly Sin by Lawrence Saunders. I was hooked, My teacher was so shocked that I was reading about a female Jack the Ripper who had sex with men and mutilated them at the end. Thankfully he just shook his head and said don't read it out loud, As if!!
Then high school started and I discovered Steven King , Dean Koontz and Anne Rice. I was hooked!
So beware of middle age stay at home moms.LOL

[Nancy from NJ]

As an only child living in Manhattan and my father's massive Library, was it any wonder that I became a lifelong reader. I always say my books were my siblings and friends.

[Faye]

For me, it was a mixture of a couple things that really got me to love reading.

I'd say it started with Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. My mom hated Dr. Seuss books, so we didn't own any (they weren't banned per se...it's just she didn't buy them because she didn't like them), but as a kid, whenever I had to wait at the doctor's office, my dad would read Green Eggs and Ham to me (literally, every single time without fail, it was always Green Eggs and Ham).

Then, I always looked up to my older brother when I was growing up and he was always reading HUGE books (he's a big fan of fantasy). He had actually been reading Harry Potter when it first came out in the States (before it really took off and became super popular) and I remember thinking that if he liked it, then it couldn't be that bad. So, at 8 years old, I picked up my first Harry Potter book and I've been reading just about everything I can get my hands on since.

[Mayke ☕️]

I got into reading myself. My parents don't really read books. I bought the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella a lot of years ago. Dan Brown definitely got me into reading. Since then I've started to read more and more every year. Now it's a big part of my life and I have a bunch of library books at home at any time :).