What started your thirst for books ?

[Shawn]

Beverly Cleary books in third grade, next Judy Blume and Betsy Byars.

[Stefano]

The Lord of the Rings. It wasn't an easy task but, after that book, everything changed.

[Filipe]

My father word on a recycling paper factory. And used to bring home 50Kg of books at a time. Since me and my brother had a lot of time in our hands when we were kids - we started to have fun with books. A lot of them. And since they were free and plenty - we read them and gave to others.
Those were the times.
Then started working and started buying them (mine! mine!).... And right now have a kindle (and the ebooks do not have the same attachment as the paper ones)....

[Bobby]

Ömer wrote: "Crime and Punishment."

Crime and Punishment??? Holy smokes! Soooo...either you didn't find your thirst for books until you were older or you were one strange (and brilliant) little kid...

[Robert]

Call of the Wild. What a story. This was one of a handful of books I read as a boy that, when I turned the final page, I was sad to leave the world the writer had created for me. This was also one of those books that spurred my interest in writing.

[Donna]

Black Beauty. I loved horses when I was a girl. I think I read every book about horses from our school library.

I still browse horse books and have a few "coffee table" books about horses.

[Rachel]

When I was little my dad took me to the library. He picked up White Fang and said he liked it. I checked it out and that's when I started reading obsessively.

[MJ]

I couldn't tell you exactly which book created the reading bug in me, but I do remember reading "Charlotte's Web" over and over.