How did you started reading?

[Pamela]

Me too. I don't evem remember what I was like before.

[[deleted user]]

I started reading when my friend told me to read a really long book (forgot the name lol), when I was in 6th grade, I ended up really liking the book and then I kept reading more and more

[Pamela]

My life now is simply too different from before that I cannot imagine myself without books. :D

[Is]

People are amazed that I actually like reading -.-

[Georgiana]

its funny i was told the other day that i ws not like a person who would read but i do

[Andrea]

I started reading at 13 when I wanted to read the seventh harry potter book, but my cousin said I had to read the sixth. So I did, i read the sixth seventh and the fifth. I started loving books from that point on.

[Megan]

I've always sort of liked to read, but I really got into it in 6th grade when I read the twilight series. I slowed for a little while after that, then this past summer I went to the library after having nothing to do (I'm in 8th grade by the way) Now I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have books!!

[Sayshisweetie]

I've always read. :)

[[deleted user]]

I've seriously been reading since I was three years old. My mom taught me when I was Three. I'm not joking :P

[Miss Silvertongue]

I guess I've been reading ever since I could read. But I first started seriously reading novels around 6 years ago when I read Order of the Phoenix for a book review task. (Whooo go Harry Potter!)

Writing... since grade 2 (7 years ago). I wrote this 12 page story about Rapunzel and I was so proud of myself. It probably wasn't that good but it was the first time I realised that books didn't just fall down from the sky, people actually sat down and thought long and hard when writing them.

[Audrey]

Um well I went to vist my freind in Georgia (US) and she told me about Twilight so I started reading it, and then I started reading more often and I just love it now!

[Kayla]

I'm not sure why, but I was always a reader. My mom taught me how to read when I was in kindergarten, she would read to me every night and eventually I just continued to read by myself. And I always read a lot more than I was supposed to for those book contest things my school hosted where your prize was a pizza party for your class or something of that sort.

[Haley]

I was NEVER all that into reading, one day my parents went into barnes and noble though and i came across Evermore by Alyson Noel..I was hooked..I read all four books that were out that week! That was about 10 months ago, I now read a few books a week and i have a book blog. (:

[Sydney]

I never hated reading really....But last year I got grounded for two months and there was nothing else to do. So, I ended up reading 52 books in two months:) I've been going to library at least every two weeks since then:) (LATELY THOUGH SCHOOL HAS BEEN EXTREMELY BUSY AND I HAVE NO TIME TO READ:()

[Is]

Sydney wrote: "I never hated reading really....But last year I got grounded for two months and there was nothing else to do. So, I ended up reading 52 books in two months:) I've been going to library at least eve..."


One summer, that I was grounded. I did that too :D

[Déa]

I started reading when I was 4 and learned to. When I was 5 my mum brought me a chapter book from the library for the first time - I read it in an afternoon and then she took me to the library so I could borrow the other books in the series. Since then I've read between 200-500 pages everyday, and I love books almost more than anything else.
I live in Finland (with Swedish as my native language), and have read books in English for 4 years or something like that. When I started I'd only read English for a year (I was 11) and didn't understand half of the words, but when I'd read three books (the last books of The Princess Diaries series, couldn't stand waiting on the translations) it wasn't a problem anymore. Nowadays I definitely prefer to read in English, because I hate translations and because there are way more books to choose between.

[India]

I got into reading when I was about 11 I think. I used to listen to the audio books of the Narnia Chronicles and in 4th class our teacher set The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for us all to read. After that I went and read the first book then came across 'Danny the champian of the world' which I still love to this day. That's the first book that I ever read just because I thought it sounded good, and it was the most tattered thing I've ever seen.
My little sister HATED reading, refused to read anything that I'd recommend to her. Then she read Twilight and completely fell in love with it and now she reads more then I do.

Reading the first post I was like, wow! that takes commitment. I learn a whole other language just to be able to read a story is very admirable.

I plan to read through all these posts became they seem really interesting and I wish mine was more like them!

-India!

[Fareeha]

i started reading in elementary in the 5th grade when i started on the harry potter series which i love! im a sophmore in high school so since then i read! read! and read more! i actually read so much a punishment i get is that i cant read anymore... i hate that!

[Hristina]

I have ever loved reading.My parents do as well,so watching them read has just made me read too.
We always share book reccomnedations and buy books together.I have loved books ever since I was a kid and I can't live without a book near me.
Unfortunately my little sister doesn't like reading at all :D

[Pam]

My sister got tired of reading to me so she taught me to read when I was four (and I haven't slowed down since then!) Now I work in a middle school library and try to turn students on to reading. Twilight has been a big boon to non-readers (as has the Harry Potter series and The Hunger Games series.) I'm constantly on the lookout for the next new read that will catch my student's attention and turn the non-readers into readers!

[Amanda]

I've been reading my whole life. I think I started reading words when I was around 2. I started kindergarten when I was 4 and I remember reading The Little House on the Prarie books when I was in first grade, making me 5 years old. I've been an avid reader to say the least.

[Amanda]

Oh, and I second the notion that just because you read a lot doesn't mean you'll be a good speller. Spelling is one of my worst subjects, I'm constantly googling words to make sure I'm spelling them correctly before I post a comment.

[Jordan*]

Books were never "cool" enough when I was younger. But once I realized reading a book was kinda like a tv in your head where you never had to miss an episode, and you could take it where ever you went, it turned out to be the best thing ever!

[Candy]

Jude wrote: "Problem: There aren't that many books is Spanish - at least for YA - and so I figured. Want to read? You learn English. and I did. "

Wow Jude! That's great!

My mom read to us every day when I was little. I learned to read when I was 5 I think and LOVED it- 'Little house on the Prairie,' 'Charlotte's Web,' 'Stuart Little,' 'The Little Princess,' and 'The Secret Garden' were my favorites, then romance like the Sweet Dreams and 'Seniors' series. I kept reading until I was about 20 or so then didn't read that often.
I got sick and after getting out of the hospital I made my brother get the Twilight series for me. After that I was HOOKED to young adult fiction. Now I can't stop!

[Kristina]

My parents and grandparents read to me all the time when I was little. Mostly my grandparents, especially my grandpa (r.i.p <3) I definitely have them to thank for my love of books and reading! I always asked for books for holidays and read CONSTANTLY. luckily my parents would let me bring books to restaurants when we went out to eat and allowed me to read at the dinner table, while taking a bath, and before bed for as long as i wanted. they also never censored what I read, thankfully! i know some parents do and I would have hated if they did that to me. I share books with my mom and grandma all the time now and I wouldn't change it for the world :)

[κίρστεν (Kirsten)]

It always annoyed the heck out of me when I looked at something and couldn't read it... =P So I started reading around 5-6. I've loved it ever since. I take a book with me just about everywhere. =) I also get randomly addicted to a certain series or genre. Right now I'm addicted to Historical fiction from the civil war era.

[Kerra]

When I was little I started reading The Baby Sitters Club :). Then I stopped reading around the time I was 10. I liked reading, but it was never a hobby or a must need thing to do. Then when I was 16 I read the book Misery by Stephen King and then I was hooked and I havn't put a book down since. I read everyday and for about 4 to 5 hours a day. I am currently reading 6 books and I am really enjoying all of them. I think I can belong to the Book Addicts club :D My parents are always telling me that I read too much and that I have too many books, but I guess that is normal for non-readers to say.

[Kara]

Jude wrote: "This may seem dumb. But I mean how did you started actually reading books. A lot of you started the moment you could and others - like me - when they where older.

Also, those of you who read in ..."

I can't actually remember when I startde to read, so I'm going to take a guess and say my whole life :D

[Kerra]

♥Kara Cross♥ wrote: "Jude wrote: "This may seem dumb. But I mean how did you started actually reading books. A lot of you started the moment you could and others - like me - when they where older.

Also, those of you..."

Lol, well at least no one can call you a non-experienced reader! I would have loved to have read for my whole life. Think of all the books I would have read by now! I have about 300 books in my room right now and sadly only probably 50 of them have actually been read. It feels like I have read a ton of books, but when I look at all the books in my room (because I keep all the ones I read) I have really only read less than 100. I am a slow reader though, even though I read 6 books at once.

[[deleted user]]

I started reading when I was 7 yrs old, my favorite book was green eggs and ham :D After i got older i stopped reading, then starting middle school i started obsessing over books again :D

[Charlotte]

I've been reading for as long as I can remember, when I was little I would read every little thing I could. I really slacked off, but then when I was about ten my best friend got me back into it and now I read all the time. It drives my mom crazy because I'll have twenty books at a time checked out at the library.

[Gwenn]

Geez, I can't remember ever not reading voraciously...It probably really reached addiction level when I was in 3rd grade. Two things happened at that point in my life. Happy coincidences. My mother got a job and that translated into me getting an allowance and a strip mall was built in what had been a field behind our house. In the strip mall was a bookstore. I spent many Friday and Saturday afternoons tucked into their little room devoted to YA. Mind you, this would have been 1988 or 1989 so I was spending my allowance on books like Stranger with My Face and all of Lois Duncan's other books, as well as Christopher Pike and the Vampire Diaries by LJ Smith (yea, those aren't new).

[[deleted user]]

Charlotte wrote: "I've been reading for as long as I can remember, when I was little I would read every little thing I could. I really slacked off, but then when I was about ten my best friend got me back into it an..."

Oh My G!
Same here, my mom is like just get 2 and i come back with 20 and shes like :O and im like :):D ^_^

[[deleted user]]

Gwenn wrote: "Geez, I can't remember ever not reading voraciously...It probably really reached addiction level when I was in 3rd grade. Two things happened at that point in my life. Happy coincidences. My mother..."

I wish my mom worked some place near a book storee! I would be in there 24/7 :D

[Charlotte]

Jessie :) wrote: "Charlotte wrote: "I've been reading for as long as I can remember, when I was little I would read every little thing I could. I really slacked off, but then when I was about ten my best friend got ..."

Haha. Exactly. She tells me that every single time "You can only get two" I don't know why she even bothers anymore."

[[deleted user]]

Charlotte wrote: "Jessie :) wrote: "Charlotte wrote: "I've been reading for as long as I can remember, when I was little I would read every little thing I could. I really slacked off, but then when I was about ten m..."

haha same here!

[Gwenn]

Jessie :) wrote: "Gwenn wrote: "Geez, I can't remember ever not reading voraciously...It probably really reached addiction level when I was in 3rd grade. Two things happened at that point in my life. Happy coinciden..."

It was actually across the street from our house. It was pretty awesome. And then they moved us out to rural Missouri and the closest bookstore was 25 miles away. No bueno.

[[deleted user]]

Gwenn wrote: "Jessie :) wrote: "Gwenn wrote: "Geez, I can't remember ever not reading voraciously...It probably really reached addiction level when I was in 3rd grade. Two things happened at that point in my lif..."

wow O.o

[Sophie]

I feel strange when I read these comments, honestly. I started reading at the age of... um... 4 1/2 years or something like that and two years later I read Harry Potter! oO And now... now I'm insane I couldn't live without books. When I was 10 and in the 4th grade they were for a while my only and best friends because I moved from Munich to Würzburg and didn't know anyone. I was so shy that it cost a long time 'til I had friends :)) So I read and read and read and read... and read. And it's still like this. Yeah, I have many good friends now, but... the books are my friends still, too, you see? ;D

[michelle-belle]

I started reading in first grade. I had a really great teacher that year that inspired me to read and write poetry at such a young age, and I never stopped!

[Beatrix]

I think I've been reading books all my life, but I was never one of those "reader" readers, if you get my drift. I began reading a ton in elementary school, then stopped during the middle school stage because I thought I was too cool for books. You know what that's like. xD
I was pretty inconsistent throughout highschool. I would either read a lot of not at all.
Then I found goodreads and I read more than ever. I find all these books I would have never been able to find without the website, and now I can't stay off of it. I find myself on this site even late at night. I'm on this site more than facebook even, haha.

[Rachel]

well ever since i was twelve i have loved to read.. i dont exactly remember how i started then.. but then about a year later i got out of the habit of reading. Then, in the beginning of my 8th grade year, i picked up the book Adoration of Jenna Fox, and devoured it in two days. that was in september, and by december i read i think 7 new books? wellll then for christmas, i got the twilight books. and lets just say, that made my love for reading grow times ten. i finished the whole series in a week. and ever since then (a little more than a year later) i read about 70 books from Stargirl to To Kill a Mockingbird.

i love reading <3

[[deleted user]]

I sucked at reading for a long time... But when I was like nine I got better ad when I was like ten I started reading alot, just swedish books though. Then when I was 12 I got tired of boring swedish books that was like for 13-16 years old people so I started reading books in english... Now that I'm 14, I hate reading books in swedish.. ^^

[Jody]

I'm coming into this discussion a little late...

I was one of those geeky kids who loved reading from the get-go, probably because there were so many books in the house (I have an older sibling, so there were already lots of kids' books). I also loved, and still love, beautiful illustrations, so those probably helped too. Although I think what hooked me most is that my mom, who's Scottish, bought us so many great British books - Enid Blyton, Paddington, the Wombles... those books could take you all the way from your toddler years right through to mid-grade! By age 8 or 9 I was buying my own books and cycling to the library myself - I couldn't get enough.

Jude, I can't believe you're reading AND writing in another language! I had to read French and Spanish (at quite a high level, as I did them in University), and as I read I was aware of how much I was missing. I could get the basics but I'm sure I missed all the nuances. Do you watch a lot of English TV, does that help? One of my best friends is Mexican and when she and her mom watch American TV they turn on the subtitles, because they find it easier to read english than hear it. (although maybe that's cause so many actors are sloppy speakers!)

[Jude, The First One :)]

Jody wrote: "I'm coming into this discussion a little late...

I was one of those geeky kids who loved reading from the get-go, probably because there were so many books in the house (I have an older sibling, s..."

LOL! all my life I've seen only English TV - I don't have cable, I do not get Spanish channels xD - so I knew how to SPEAK English and understood it fairly enough, it took me two weeks to learn to read in English. reading out loud each twilight book. Spanish-English dictionary beside me, along with the books in Spanish. Since then I have not stopped :D!! I'm still amazed that I did it actually xD seems surreal that I got so determined

[Shellby]

My mom use to always read to me as a child. I always wanted to do it on my own so when I was finally able to read by myself I just naturally started picking up books on my own. If it wasn't for her reading to me I don't think I would have formed a love for reading as I have.

[[deleted user]]

I was pretty much born reading. Every since I was little, I loved to read. In first grade, my teacher got me my first "big girl chapter book" - it was a Junie B. Jones book. At first it looked intimidating. Then I read it, and I read more and more. Now, I could read that Junie B. Jones book in an hour. :) I have read every children's book in the library, and have now started on YA books.

[trixie]

i didnt start reading till 5th grade. that was the time i picked up my first harry potter book and since then i cant stop reading! i was literally forced to read the book and thinking back now im very glad i kept reading and didnt put the book down! - not that i could of, it being harry potter and all :)

[Kira]

Books were one of the major constants during the time I was growing up, so in that sense I really don't remember a time when I wasn't reading (though, of course I had to have learned somewhere). The first strong memory I have involving books was from when I was 3 (probably because it was somewhat traumatic). I was a weird kid. I had two older (though not much older, eldest was by 3.5yrs) brothers in school, so I wanted to go to school. the particular school I went to til second grade also held two levels of preschool, one for ages 3-4, the others for thos who were 4-5, but missed the kindergarten cut-off. I, naturally at 3 was placed with the younger group.

I remember we used to do a lot show-and-tell/bring something in for the class to share with you type deals. One day I remember bringing in two books (though I couldn't, for the life of me, tell what they were called. One of these books I liked quite well, the other (which I believe was about bunnies, and was one of those that had a hole cut out on the cover that you could feel the fake fur glues to the picture on the next page through) was my absolute favorite. I (as show-and-tells go) introduced them to the class, and I believe the teacher allowed one to be read, so I of course chose my favorite (I don't recall if I could and did read/quoted from memory to the class, or the teacher read it, but yeah). After the book was finished, as was custom, the teacher permitted me to leave the circle to return the books to my backpack in my cubbyhole, which was located right outside the classroom in the preschool-wing hallway, where toys shared by both groups were kept.

Here's where the traumatic part comes. I put the books away, and returned to the circle. Later that day, after I'd gotten home, I'd opened my backpack to take my two books out, and only one was inside. it wasn't my favorite little bunny book. I never found out what had happened to it, if it was stolen (who would do that to a three year old?), or if it had just fallen out, but I had been devastated, even if I didn't know what the word meant.

After that, again, I can't remember not liking books. There were the typical children's books: Dr. Seuss (Hop on Pop was the fave there, because, honestly, what kid doesn't like the idea?), Where the Wild Things Are, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, etc.

The first chapter book/book series I had read (or, rather, could remember reading) had been in either kindergarten or first grade, and it had been my eldest brother's The Boxcar Children books. I'd actually kind have stolen them from him because I wanted something more grown up to read, and they were there. that certainly wouldn't be the last time i'd use my brother's books as my own personal library (though I did start to accumulate my own, and frequent actual libraries) in the years to come. I don't think he ever knew, except the very rare occasions I did ask if I could borrow a book (usually because he was reading it at the time, so I was putting it "on reserve")

[Eirian]

Back in 5th grade xD
Technically when I was very very young, but it wasn't in English, but I used to have favorite stories from when I was little.
I would say what they were but I lack translation skills lol

Anyways, my friend had gotten me addicted to anime at the time. [Before then I only wrote and posted 5th grade crap on fanfiction (Note: At the time I was so proud of myself lol, now when I read it, it's more like 'Oh Dear God, that's horrible!') I liked my storylines but the writing was errm unreadable. But then again I barely spoke English then. (All this was before I ever heard of anime]
So, I came to love this Manga Hikaru no Go, and read basically all the fanfics available.
So I've been reading fanfiction ever since (For practically everything, Harry Potter etc Note: I liked a lot of the HP Fanfics way better than the books), which slowly turned into fictionpress in 07, then slowly turned into books xD

P.S I actually found Goodreads when I looked up a Fiction Press story I enjoyed a lot on yahoo. (That was March 24th) :p