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What started your love for reading and/or writing?
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May 05, 2011 05:51AM
Forgot about Biggles & Billy Bunter ( I was a little bit older when I read Billy Bunter - the font was smaller :-o)
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Amanda wrote: "Thanks guys! Feel less embarrased now ;o)"
Besides Amanda, Laura and I have been the only ones identified as book-snobs. So you have more then 1000 other member who will still chat to you. :D
Besides Amanda, Laura and I have been the only ones identified as book-snobs. So you have more then 1000 other member who will still chat to you. :D
I was sick every winter as a child and read Enid Blyton, Lewis Caroll and other authors to while away the days. The Magic Faraway Tree was a favorite. I feel sorry for people who don't enjoy reading. You are seldom bored with a good book to read. I take my kindle with me everywhere. I love a good historical romance. Love to write them too.
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OK!! I STARTED AND BEGAN LOVING READIN WHEN i came into my new skool last year, and when i made my friends on the first day! they influenced me to start readin!! AND NOW IM LIKE THE BIGGEST BOOKWORM!! *BIG OBSESSION WITH PARANORMAL ROMANCE YA!!*
J wrote: "Before I fall by Lauren Oliver. Beautiful writing and a story I grew to love as I read it. Additionally, she is a young talented writer who inspired me to start writing.:)"OH MY GOD!! I IS THAT BOOK GOOD? coz i wanna start readin it! AND I LOVE LAUREN OLIVER'S BOOK DELIRIUM!!!!!!!!! BEST BOOK LIKE EVER! but nothing beats THE VAMPIRE ACADEMY SERIES :)
I Loved the secret seven!
im pretty sure my brothers used to read it to me...didnt they make a tv show out of it?
@ deena great to hear your a newly converted bookworm..we gotta change the world lol
if you liked
have you read
i think it might be up your ally if you havnt
im pretty sure my brothers used to read it to me...didnt they make a tv show out of it?
@ deena great to hear your a newly converted bookworm..we gotta change the world lol
if you liked
have you read
i think it might be up your ally if you havnt
yes!! I READ MATCHED B4 DELIIRIUM!! BUT IT WASNT AS GOOD AS DELIRIUM! BUT I STILL LOVED IT! cant w8 for crossed!! :)
Deena, no need for the caps all the time ;)
lol, I LIKE caps! ahaha and yep! i am! :)
its 11 but i could go with some scotch to warm me up lol.
just putting my order in haha
just putting my order in haha
lol, im soo not shouting, i dnt like shouting or yellin @ people, coz then i feel guilty, BUT WHEN I GET HYPER, I WRITE IN CAPSS!!! :):) ahaha i guess i'll have around 100 orders 2DAY! LOL :)
Me me me! I live in South Australia :) Its a pretty nice place, though I plan on living in London one day.Deena_The Eminem Luver! wrote: "OH MY GOD!! I IS THAT BOOK GOOD? coz i wanna start readin it! AND I LOVE LAUREN OLIVER'S BOOK DELIRIUM!!!!!!!!! BEST BOOK LIKE EVER! but nothing beats THE VAMPIRE ACADEMY SERIES :)
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Deena_The Eminem Luver! wrote: "yes!! I READ MATCHED B4 DELIIRIUM!! BUT IT WASNT AS GOOD AS DELIRIUM! BUT I STILL LOVED IT! cant w8 for crossed!! :)"
*eyetwitch*
To. Many. Caps.
Ive got both Delirium & Before I Fall on my shelf at home, and am pretty excited about reading both :)
If you respond, please dont do so in caps. It may frustrate me even more ;)
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I got grounded a lot as a kid (a lot). The library was made available to me. Back then the TV only had 5 channels...with nothing on them. Became a life-long habit. Read most of my classics and a mess of contemporary novels in the U.S. Coast Guard (made me kind of weird). Then college - got work done just so I could read what I wanted. This led to creative writing courses.
:-) never thought about this question before. Kind of forced into it.
What makes you think I leave the naughty corner?
Leave and left both work, but imply different meanings
Carmel wrote: "Oh pardon me!!!"Haha I win ;)
Carmel wrote: "Ha you're dreamin!!!"I claim victory
I started reading early, like second or first grade early. Mom saw how I finished reading my school books as soon as I got them, and caught on to my love of reading so she got these fairytale books and a load of science books and encylopedias (so fictional books weren't enough LOL). I also had a lot of religious reading as I was growing up too. Then, in seventh grade, a friend of mine introduced me and several of my friends to Goosebumps. That was my first try at English books, up until then, my English was weak and hilarious. After growing out of Goosebumps, I tried other books and that got me starting.
So I've only switched the genre of interest; I've been reading my whole life.
I love Mom for supporting me all the way. Books helped my mental growth and they really helped me understand so many issues about life. Reading is like a silent meditation, you discover a lot about yourself through it.
Writing began as far as third grade. I wrote horrible, silly poetry that my Mom told me was beautiful back then. When she saw my poems written on random sheets of paper, she brought me two seperate notebooks; one for my poetry and one for my stories. I laugh every time I read both notebooks ;P Seriously, I appreciate how Mom said they were all lovely when they were plain disasters.
Mom didn't really like reading, she read a book once a year and that's great for her. Dad enjoys reading political books about conspiracies and spies and I don't know what. At least one of my parents likes to read.
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I think my dad and my sister (who's 2 years older) got me into reading. I looked up to her heaps as a kid so when she was learning to read I was sitting beside her, memorising what she was reading Dr Seuss out loud (which I'd then trick my parents into doing the same, but I was just going from memory). She also taught me how to write my name. Then as a kid we had heaps of books around, the Golden Books, Willie the Wimp, Roald Dahl stories, Paul Jennings books, The Magic Pudding I got as a gift really young, from the drawings in that I started liking art and comic books. Then I got into dinosaurs and got this encylcopeadia which blew my little pre-adolescent mind. Then My sis and I got stuck into Goosebumps.
Basically I was a really quiet, odd kid who was happy to sit on my own and entertain myself.
As for writing, it's mostly really silly short stories that I rarely keep, but it's fun when I cant sleep or have too much time to kill at work
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I dont think I'm any either :(
My Grandfather was the beginning. He never finished school so he hardly ever wrote anything and when he did he spelled pheonetically (just like me!) but he told the most amazing stories always had fire engines and picnics. One of my earliest memories was his stories, so when I was old enough to read for myself I had been well primed.
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Wow Sonia, that's great! It sure was meant to be! I hope the bullying stopped...
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Hello Melanie,
My parents taught me to read and I can remember when I was able to read without following the line with my finger. My mother always read me bedtime stories and I loved Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner.
My desire to be a writer evolved from that. To the disgust of my parents and teachers, instead of concentrating on my schoolwork, I spent my final year at school writing a novel in the back of the class room.
My parents taught me to read and I can remember when I was able to read without following the line with my finger. My mother always read me bedtime stories and I loved Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner.
My desire to be a writer evolved from that. To the disgust of my parents and teachers, instead of concentrating on my schoolwork, I spent my final year at school writing a novel in the back of the class room.
I've always had a wild imagination and loved to read books from an early age.
Carmel wrote: "That's a great story Joanna, at least you were doing constructive things in the back row of the classroom which was a bit different when I was at school!"Everyone does non constructive things in every row at school :P
Ah, I swear ive got like 20 different short stories or poems in the back of my books.
Well that novel was never published. I wrote it with passion but not much skill.
I've now got 3 novels on Kindle. 2 are set in Australia and 1 in the UK.
I've now got 3 novels on Kindle. 2 are set in Australia and 1 in the UK.
wow at least you guys where imaginative I think the only thing I did in school was read in the back corner or fall alseep with my Ipod (thank god for a year 12 english teacher who understood)
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Haha!! Ipod at school!! Just goes to show the age difference....it wasn't even invented when I was a school..lol
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Ha Brenda, do you remember the discman, that was pretty high tec..."
I do Carmel, or the Walkman!!! I know you have an ipod now, birthday gift, and I'm jealous!!!! ;P
I had both a discman and a walk man.... but the ipod was like what when I was in yr 10 I think...lol
it scares me that im the generation that was there when both the cd, dvd, usb, ipod, and blu ray where all made in
it scares me that im the generation that was there when both the cd, dvd, usb, ipod, and blu ray where all made in
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it scares me that im the generation that was there when both the cd, dvd, usb, ipod, and blu ra..."
Ha! That's scary Melanie:D
lol I remember them all...sigh I miss tapes and waiting all day by the radio to record my fav songs so I could ask the bus driver to play it on the way to school
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And he did? Wow! Bit different to nowadays;D
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I do! I have heaps!!
I also have many :D i love vinyl!
and the bus I took to primary school was not a public one (living in the mountains that would have been hard) it was a private company the bus drivers usually lived on the mont too so yea he used to play our tapes im not sure about the other drivers but ours did
and the bus I took to primary school was not a public one (living in the mountains that would have been hard) it was a private company the bus drivers usually lived on the mont too so yea he used to play our tapes im not sure about the other drivers but ours did
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and the bus I took to primary school was not a public one (living in the mountains that would have been hard) it was a private company the bus drivers usually liv..."
Awesome! Nice memories:)
Melanie wrote: "wow at least you guys where imaginative I think the only thing I did in school was read in the back corner or fall alseep with my Ipod (thank god for a year 12 english teacher who understood)"
They weren't invented when I was at school. Hate to think of the mayhem if they had been. I think they would have been banned.
They weren't invented when I was at school. Hate to think of the mayhem if they had been. I think they would have been banned.
haha iPods all the way for me! Most teachers have them banned/confiscated, but there are a handful who dont mind and let us listen to them if we're doing individual work :)
★ Jess wrote: "haha iPods all the way for me! Most teachers have them banned/confiscated, but there are a handful who dont mind and let us listen to them if we're doing individual work :)"
If your doing something creative it probably helps. I always listen to music when I'm writing.
If your doing something creative it probably helps. I always listen to music when I'm writing.
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