How did you started reading?

[Aneeqah]

I've read ever since I was little, but when I really started reading was back in 2nd grade. I had this fantastic teacher who always pushed me to read. I was a fast reader, and she always praised me when I finished something quickly. So that lead me to read more, and more, and more, and here I am now :)

[Kevin]

I remember the first book I ever read, it was wow that was so long ago. I think I was 4 when I read that, and it was a huge accomnplishment. And when I realized I could tell myself stories when my parents couldn't I jumped at it and here I am! An avid reader!

[Bella]

I was in college and I had no friends due to my anti social behaviour and since most of the time I was broke I started to visit the local library.

[Connor]

I started to read when I was five. I loved it for a while. I continuously either love or hate reading. I will have periods where I don't want to stop, then several months later I don't ever want to read.

[[deleted user]]

As soon as my mom gave me a book I was reading or she was reading to me and loved reading the little kids books again and again until I could memorize the whole story. Then I started reading small learn-to-read chapter books and when I was finally reading the Harry Potter series I think that reading really took off for me and I realized all of the possibilities there really were when you ventured in to the story world!

[Book Elf]

I started reading when I was kinder~ my uncle bought me a poem book~ then, on my 3rd grade, I started reading story books at the back of our schoolroom. There were so many books stashed in the shelf there.

[Dreamhopelove888]

Four words: The Boy Who Lived

[Rachel]

I learned to read in the first grade and haven't stopped since. :)

[Thalia]

I started to teach myself to read in kindergarten with some help from my mom. Ever since then, I wondered why people DIDN'T read. It's so much more interesting than real life!

[♫♫☺Allie☺♫♫]

Thalia wrote: "I started to teach myself to read in kindergarten with some help from my mom. Ever since then, I wondered why people DIDN'T read. It's so much more interesting than real life!"

Ikr? People ask me why I read at all and I just ask why don't you read?

[Thalia]

One kid in my English class the other day said he never read outside of school. I was like, "Whyy?" Because 1) teachers never assign the best books and 2) you can actually enjoy books instead of do nothing but analyze. He just had this blank stare and said, "Well, what's the point?"

I was ready just to slam my head against my desk.

[Aimee]

Reading was one of my daily 'chores' as a kid. I was told to get a book (from the library, from my mom's shelf or wherever) and to read for 30 minutes every day.

As a little kid, this was find. Picture books were awesome.

By the time I hit my teens, I rebelled and refused to read anything because it seemed everything I was reading was literary fiction from 60 years ago and it didn't apply and I was hating this routine of 'forced' reading.

I got over that snit finally and found books that suited my age and have grown with them since, though now in my 30s, I love going backward and reading YA. :)

[[deleted user]]

i started reading after i learned in first grade, it was a late start as i had double vision and was unable to see. imagine reading the same line over and over, how boring is that

[Danielle]

I didn't really read much when I was little, aside from Dr. Seuss books :) But I didn't NOT like to read, I just didn't read. Then in 3rd grade, my teeacher got me into reading with Harry Potter and The Series of Unfortunate Events. Ever since then I always have a book with me no matter where I go. Doesn't matter if I won't have time to read it, I got to have one with me. Lol, I just wish I had more time to read b/c there's SOOOO many books I want to read :)

[Kris-10]

As far back as I can remember, I have also loved to read (as a child The Boxcar Children were my favorite)! I slowed down for a while until I picked up Twilight, and since then I have jumped on the paranormal bandwagon and read non-stop! And very much like Danielle, I always have to have a book with me. I am very proud to call myself a bookworm! :))

[[deleted user]]

I have always enjoyed books, and so it just became a hobby of mine that I do as often as I possibly can. I don't go ANYWHERE without my book.

[Jennifer, The Paranormal One]

I loved reading when I was young like I lived for the goosebump books! But as I got older school over took my time and I didn't get to choose what I read so I began hating reading. Once I finally graduated college my friend begged me to read Twilight. She NEVER reads so I was like I got to check this out. I read it and it was fantastic so I kept reading stuff that I actually got to choose and then I was like oh yeah I used to love reading! but when you are stuck reading text books all day every day you forget. Now that I am out of school and can choose what I read I am soo happy!

[Rogier]

sat on a american pre- school and my mom tells me was most of the time in the reading corner . lol dont if i was readin o r lookin at the pictures
so where was i . began lovin to read in the 3th grade mostly dutch . we live in a dutch speakin former colony
when i went on the dutch kindr garden spoke evrything with english word order.

and later on maybe age 12/13/ 14 began readin english books
more bout women and stuff in other countries
the narnia movies lured me in2 the fantasy, patanormal urban fantasy . Ya books
so love readin
done boring y'all with my life

[Broadway]

Well, I learned to read when I was five and in kindergarten. I guess I started reading for fun soon after that. We'd go to the library once a week and I'd always check out a book. I had fun reading, so I kept at it. :D I had my off periods, but I've been reading books pretty much since then.

[Jeanna-Has Probably Read It!]

Aside from the obvious school teachings my love from books came from my first Joanna Lindsey and Stephen King books. My step dad had to build me the biggest bookshelf because whenever I got my $20 allowance I bought a new book. So, I've been reading for a long time. I guess it's a wonder I don't like to cook. :( Any men that want to cook for me????lol

[Michelle]

I started reading around 4 and I haven't looked back. My mom always had tons of picture books and Golden books around for me to look through, and since I'm the younger sibling I use to try and read my brother's books. Plus you'd have a hard time not seeing a book in our house. So I've always been a reader, but I think what truly kick started the "obsession" was the show Wishbone. The fact that a cute little dog was reading these high level books and making it seem like so much fun gave me that push to truly start reading higher level stuff. So I was on to small chapter books before kindergarten. It's about the only thing I've really ever 'excelled' at.

[[deleted user]]

I read and memorized my first nursery rhyme book at age 2.

[LeAnn]

I liked to read but it was hard for me to find books with content I wanted to read about. I didn't find my first "favorite book" until 7th grade when we had to find a book to do a report on. I picked up a random book called "Scribbler of Dreams" by Mary Pearson and I fell in love! I can't tell you how many times I've read that book lol.

I didn't really find any other books I loved until high school. In 9th grade, I discovered Sarah Dessen's "This Lullaby" and loved it. I also read "The Notebook", which of course is great. I read some more of Sarah Dessen's books, which I liked.

I didn't care much for reading books (although I did read a lot of un-published stories online) until I read the Twilight series. That kind of opened up a whole new world for me. Suddenly I wanted to read about vampires, werewolves and other mythical beings. As they say, the rest is history :)

[Yasmeen]

i started reading in 7th grade..before that i thought reading was boring but then my friends told me to read The Sisters Grimm and thats when the omg-i-love-books-im-sooo-crazy phase of my life started..

[Hope]

I started with the picture books that they make you read in school when you're first learning to read. Back then, I wasn't interested in those books so my reading age was about average. I properly started reading when the first Harry Potter book came out and from then on, you'll never see me without a book. I could actually LIVE in Waterstones (UK's biggest book shop)

[Elly]

When I was little My mother read to me the books of narnia when I was very sick.. I had...let me think, I think you call it mono in English..
And after a while I started reading on my own and I just kept reading and reading and so that's my story

[Johnnybgoode]

I read since I was an infant baby, enid blyton and roald daul and then harry potter came out and blew my tiny mind, to readings possibiltys. i read even more more now cos I'm lonely and stuff, it's great.

[Jamie]

I learned to read when I was little but my love for reading was thanks to a teacher in 7th grade. She pushed me, challenged me and even shared her personal book collection with me.

[Shawn]

I started reading around 12. Harry Potter was new a very popular so that's where I started. After i finished that series I didn't read anything else for a few years until the Twilight movie came out (I was approx. 18). I watched to movie to see what all the hype was about then I had to get the book. I've been hooked on reading ever since.

[Laurin]

I started reading before I can remember. I wouldn't sleep at night, I would sit under the covers and read until I passed out. My parents would come to wake me up in the morning and find a HUGE pile of books next to my bed, I would read almost every book I had every night.

[Laurin]

I started reading before I can remember. I wouldn't sleep at night, I would sit under the covers and read until I passed out. My parents would come to wake me up in the morning and find a HUGE pile of books next to my bed, I would read almost every book I had every night.

[Shelby]

I liked reading when I was younger. My mom bought be huge (but thin) picture books of the Disney movies that I used to reread everyday. But soon after, I think I fell out of love with books. I know my school just made reading seem like a chore, and I didn't have any passion for it.

But in third grade, my sister gave me Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce. She'd read them before me, and she was older (the books were a little too old for me at the time, but I didn't care). I started reading and immediately fell in love with the story. From that point on, I started reading heavily (I have two full bookshelves in my room with more books on the floor around my bed), although Tamora Pierce is still my favorite author of all time.

[[deleted user]]

I really starting reading when I learned how. I'm 11 yrs old and already reading books my mom won't read (she doesn't really read big books).

[Kary]

I have been a bookworm for as long as I can remember. I taught myself to read when I was 4, and read all the time. My mom took me to the library at LEAST once a week where I would check out usually at least 10 books at a time. I started volunteering at the library when I was 12. I am now 33, with 3 kids of my own (2 are bookworms, the other I'm working on, lol!) and going back to school to get my masters in library science. I still go to the library every week, and get a big old stack every time!

[Tracy]

I don't remember learning how to read. I just remember getting excited in kindergarten when the teacher allowed us to pick books from her bookshelf to read. Then when I got my first library card at the 'real library' I discovered Dodie Smith's 101 Dalmatians - the novel not the picture books based on the movie. I lost count of how many times I re-read the book. It finally got to the point where my mom told me I had to take out a different book at least every other visit. I was so excited when my mom got me my own paperback copy.

[Rogier]

Tracy wrote: "I don't remember learning how to read. I just remember getting excited in kindergarten when the teacher allowed us to pick books from her bookshelf to read. Then when I got my first library card at..."

cool same story a bit

[Astrid]

I learned to read when i was 5, cause my babysitter taught me :)
when i started at school (6 years old) i was disappointed cause we don't read before 1st grade (we have a 0. grade in Denmark) so i started reading books at home myself at the age of 6 and it just kept on. Then in 4. grade i was bored with the books in danish so i went over to english books. I read books in both danish and english now, depending on the original language:)

[Alex]

I started reading when I taught myself at age four. I needed help, so my dad helped me. I can still remember the book. It was a DragonTale book. I think the book that got me into reading was a Babysitters little sister book. I'm not sure, but I think that's the one.

I started reading YA when I read the sisterhood of the traveling pants books. I've been reading since then. I'm the only one I know that uses her library book limit to her advantage.

[Angela]

My parents and older sister used to read to me when I was little. The earliest memory I have of reading was sitting with my dad and sounding out words. What was most helpful was when my dad explained how to read punctuation. I remember feeling like I was let in on a secret that only the smart kids and grown ups knew.

[Cassidy]

I've loved reading as far back as I can remember and I remember that i had like a 12th grade reading level in 6th grade. I loved books so much I would never be without one. And to this day I'm addicted :)

[Saturnus]

i didnt think much off reading books, but somethimes i read one. and then everybody was crazy about twilight so i thought i should read that book and since after that books are my drugs

[Terri ♥ (aka Mrs. Christian Grey)]

I've always loved to read. Growing up for a long time an only child, reading was my entertainment. Plus my parents were readers as well.

[David]

I actually started when I was just a child in school during reading time. Our school had a little bookstore and we had to select books to read during class. Goosebumps got me hooked as a kid....til a pastor next door made me toss them :(

[Cassidy]

David wrote: "I actually started when I was just a child in school during reading time. Our school had a little bookstore and we had to select books to read during class. Goosebumps got me hooked as a kid....til..."

Wow that's mean D: I would have been super PO'd :p
Why'd he do it?

[David]

Oh Believe me I was. I was actually selling them i=n my front porch when a kid came with his dad. He was saying how we shouldn't be reading books like that that contain such evil and bad stories, much less passing it on to others and give them nightmares. I told him i didnt even have nightmares and their not that scary. but my mom made me toss them. If I could see that guy agin boy would I give him an ear full now haha

[Cassidy]

Wow. Deprive kids of good reading! Jeez what an a**. :p

[David]

well I was a Christian and I see his point...but not enough to not read them as an adult hahaha I have over 20 Goosebumps right now, plan to read them all

[CαthεεBooks]

I actually started getting into books not more than a year and a half ago. My beloved English teacher recommended to me the The Twilight Saga since I was doing so well in English (I spoke French and a bit of English). At first, I thought the book was going to scare me since I'd only read some books from Geronimo Stilton and Jeff Smith, which were more light reading. But I still began reading the The Twilight Saga. I was impressed at how much I liked reading. I read The Twilight Saga again and again. Then I began reading the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set and totally fell in love with English books. I began searching for books more and more and began reading more and more.

[Husnaa]

Wow, I can't even remember. That's how long ago it was. Ever since I was a little kid I loved reading and I still do, more than anything..

[Erendira]

first i hated books!!! current even open one!!! then in my freshman year in high school one of my friend show me twilight talk about and how good it was, so i was ok i'll try it!! (ik but it was not famous back in those days)and i love it!! since them i start liking them!! i love YA books the most but them i'm a book freak!!! lol