What or who made you love to read!!and when did it happen?

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For me and my siblings, it was our Dad. Every payday, he bought books for us, instead of candies or chocolates. And like little monsters that we were, we gobble them up fast. ^_^

[Felina]

My 5th & 6th grade teacher Mrs. Bond. I remember she used to have a time everyday where she would read to us and then we had to read a certain amount of books. She was the only teacher who ever counted the Babysitters Club books for the book criteria. To many teachers force you to read what they want you to read.

[Julie]

I'd say my Sophomore English teacher, When I was little I used to read alot but I stopped once I was in Middle School. He didn't necessarily teacher, but gave us life lessons and had a new book to recommend every day. He was a bit eccentric, he didn't own a tv or computer, and was always telling us to read more, but he really had an impact on me.

[Avigail]

Well I come from a family that everyone reads except my brother. The real bookworm in the family is my father and his sister. Well the tuth is that I remember my mother sitting with me and reading to me. At the age of 5.5 I went to first grade in Greece and in 1st garade you have this reading book with different stories. The first story of this book was about how books are the best friend of a person. They can keep you company, they can take you to places and you can travel with them the world. I also used to hide underneath my sheets with a flash light and read until my mother cought me one night.
The other significant thing that I remeber about my love of reading books is at my 8th or 9th birthday my aunt (my father's sister) bought me books for my birthday present. One of the books was "Little Women" by Luisa May Alcot.
Today you want find me without a book. And every city that I visit I will get inside a bookstore, that the best site seeing for me.

[Bhumi]

Avigail wrote: "Well I come from a family that everyone reads except my brother. The real bookworm in the family is my father and his sister. Well the tuth is that I remember my mother sitting with me and readin..."

Avigail, you went to Greece! I'm so jealous.

[Avigail]

My parents are Greek and I lieved in Greece for 10 years from the age 5.5 until the age 15.5 now we lieve in Israel

[Mary]

My Dad. He used to read aloud to us when we were kids---good stuff, not just childrens' books. Everyone in my family likes to read. My husband's kids hate and I mean HATE to read and it completely mystifies me. They are always whining about how bored they are!! I am NEVER bored as along as I have a book in my hands.

[Liz]

Growing up I spent a lot of time with my grandmother and aunt, both of whom were voracious readers, and had shelves of books to pick from. ;o)

[Wen]

I think I came by the love of reading naturally. Both parents are readers. Mom reads tons each year and dad has even written a few and is soon to have his second published.
I remember liking to read at a very early age. It just grew from there. I was one of those kids you could give a book and sit in the corner and forget about cause I was not going anywhere.
Later on from mom I got keeping my 'book book' which is a journal where I keep track of what I read. It is done by year and month. This way I can look back for favorite authors or to see how many books I read in a month or year.
I also got writing to fav authors from mom. I now have a large scrapbook with nothing in it but autographed bookmarks and coverflats and such.
I passed them on the reading one book at a time though. I tend to read several at once.

[Brandee]

My passion for reading started during a summer when I was in elementary school. A cousin of mine was a bookworm and read a lot and I looked up to her and wanted to be like her. While I was visiting her she would read all the time so to spend time with her I started reading and she read the series The Babysitters Club by Ann M. Martin. So I started reading and for at least a year after that I read The Babysitters Club all the time. The next series for me was the Fear Street collection by R.L. Stine. And from there my taste for books grew and changed tremedously.

[Christy]

The first time I learned that books aren't all horrible is one time in elementary school where I was ditching in the library and picked up Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell Tale Heart. I brought it to the librarian and asked if she had heard of it, because it was very good.

She laughed at me.

[Elena]

Fifth grade. They took us to the school library in groups of five to pick a book each to read. My friends and I all pick a different book from a detective serie. We then were playing detectives all year long! I haven't stopped reading since then.

[Ida Suyanto]

I can't remember when. But I used to see my mom read novel every night before she's going to sleep. I think I just mimicked her and then here I am, a bookaholic :)

[Anna]

This is a tale I tell often when people ask me why I'm such a bookworm.

I use to HATE reading (gasp! ban her from GR!). Totally and utterly loath the thought. But I use to love anything Sherlock Holmes after I watched Basil the Great Mouse Detective (Great movie by the way, still love it today, especially since I recognize all of the allusions).

So when I was in 4th grade and was in my school library I saw a comic book called Tin Tin. The name surprised me so I read the summery and it was about a DETECTIVE!!! finally a book with loads of pictures and a detective, how could I be so lucky?

I brought the book home and started reading it and fell in love. Not just because Tin Tin was a detective or because of the pictures but because of the storyline and humor. So I checked out all of the Tin Tin books from the library. After that I couldn't stop myself from reading.

It's funny because when you read a book that captures your heart, mind, or imagination, the words never really let you go, do they?

[Rachel Lee]

I honestly can't remember a time when I didn't love to read. My mom and grandma (my baby-sitter) were ALWAYS reading as were my two older cousins. When I was 3.5-4, my cousin, who was 8, and I sat behind my couch and he patiently taught be how to sound out words using GO, Dog, GO. I think he taught me becuase he was tired of me begging him and his older brother to read to me all the time!

[Ed]

I read to escape the bad environment I was raised in.

Thank goodness for libraries.

[Gracee]

I read at the typical 5 year old age, but then zoomed into reading into higher and higher grade levels. My teachers had a hard time putting me into a reading group/level, (in elementary school) everything was "too easy". I recall a teacher discussing my sorry math scores with me in 5th grade. She said my reading/language scores were at a 12th+ grade level, and didn't understand why my math scores reflect it as well. (She wasn't the ONLY one lol). Reading was really the only way I could impress my mother (she was pretty stern and difficult). I even achieved a Library/Reading badge in Girl Scouts. I was allowed to read everything. Well, except for the "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex *but was afraid to ask" That was on the top shelf of my parents closet. Yeah, I found that too. lol

[Queen]

I was influenced by my mom to read. We had toys and books growing up. I couldn't understand how a book could be interesting without pictures until my mom told me about using your imagination (funny how you remember things from childhood). I read a book for show-and-tell in the second grade. I was trying to find the book now but to no avail. I cannot remember the title. Just know it was a Sesame Street, Little Brown Book. Anyway, reading shows how much you really want to be bothered with other people. Now I know why she read so much :0.

[Marti]

My mom and dad would buy us books and read them to us. They made sure that the books were on a low shelf and their was a chair near by. My father read the newspaper cover to cover every day and would read westerns. I don't remember seeing my mother read, although I know she did. Both my sister and I are avid readers today. Mrs. Daroska in fifth grade and Mrs Van Horne at the library were huge influences.

[Tracey]

My gran taught me to read basic words and write my name before I went to school. I have been hooked since then.

[[deleted user]]

i love michael jackson and wanted to know everything about him so i started to read and the fact that i got to meet him face to face what a wonderful experience he truly was a legend and so sweet.

[Christy]

Denise wrote: "i love michael jackson and wanted to know everything about him so i started to read and the fact that i got to meet him face to face what a wonderful experience he truly was a legend and so sweet."

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[Lindz]

I was about 7 or 8. I loved books, already, but Mum bought me a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I still remember the first time I read it, and world it opened up. I mean who does not love Umpa Lumpas.

[Stephen light]

I remember when i was about 5. i was in a fight about summer reading. the book was charlottes web. she said reading was essential to the mind of a child.it took her a month to get me to read it. shed make me sit down and read it to her out loud. as i got into it i got more INTO it. now i didnt actually like the book to much but i also remember that about a year later when i was 6 i was in my attic looking at some books when i saw Lord of the Rings. i had never heard of it so i took it and started to read. Man my mind exploded with the adventure. im now hooked on Fantasy and i thank mr J.R.R. Tolkien for it. Also to my mom who helped me through my first steps of reading for myself.

[jessi]

My parents taught me to read as a young child, and they would read to me. We went to the library regularly and I've loved books for as long as I can remember. I don't remember anyone specifically influencing me in that area, except my parents I guess since they made a point to make it so important in my life, and my brother's life.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I think it was my older brother that turned me onto reading. We are about 2 years apart in age, and when he started school, I remember being jealous about it, so I would sit and do his homework with him. Thus I started reading. Then, when I was in school, I would go to the library with my Dad. At that time, our local library was in an old house, with all of the rooms lined with shelves. I remember getting books off the shelves, sitting on the floor, and starting them before we ever left the library. I have been an avid reader ever since.

[Stephen light]

Its amazing how our parents even if they arent avid readers have so influenced us or siblings or what have you. man i love books.

[Mounica]

I don't think I loved to read until I was in 4th grade. I give credit to the THE SERIES OF THE UNFORTUNATE EVENTS books. I remember going to my school library regularly to see if they had the latest book yet. I would still enjoy these books even if I read them today.

[Stephen light]

i never could get into those i read first two and got bored tried again leter and was still bored. no offense or anything.

[Avigail]

Well I finished yesterday The Reader by Schlink, Bernhard. I started To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks. I am also reading the Greek translation of The Name of the Rose byUmberto Eco.

[Angela]

I always hated reading until my mom discovered R.L. Stine's Goosebump series. She bought one or two books, brought them home & then I was hooked! I then went on to read Stine's Fear Street books. I've been a bookworm ever since!

[Adrienne]

When I was in kindergarten, my teacher had boxes of books that represented different levels of reading. The easiest was on the far right, and the most difficult on the far right. My friend and I competed with eachother to see who could read through those books the fastest. I've loved reading ever since, thanks to my competitive nature. I never go anywhere without a book now.

[Beck]

i only began liking books in third grade. one of my friends told me about The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner and so i went to the library to sign out the first book. that was the book that got me hooked and now i can't stop reading! my mom also used to be a bookworm but now she's too busy to even open a book.