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Your favorite memory in your reading life??

Realizing I finished all the Nancy Drew books in my school library :P

when i said goodbye to the harry potter series after 7 books..i was 14

The look on people's faces when I tell them how much I read

Ruchi wrote: "Your favorite memory in your reading life??"
Do not know the how far time travel take place while reading book , not able completely understand the point of view . But still have confidence of reading the complete book . :)

Multiple Lives, Multiple Timelines, You can't leave only once because books.

Recommending The River Wife to a complete stranger at my local library, and seeing them later in the month. Upon recognizing me, she told me she had adored the book, and wanted me to give her another one to read!

A comforting stack of books around me, transporting to the worlds unknown-favourite memory as well as everyday reality...

Only one word - "Tinkle"
Guess that pretty much sums it up.

Reading Snape's story in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. "Always" - The word found new meaning for me!

Fluffy pink welly socks, howling wind and rain outside, hot water bottle, hot chocolate and Wuthering Heights...I was about 12 but can still picture it vividly (coughs)33 years later..

Introducing books to fellow readers through Good Reads and Facebook

A memory which I like to share about books is the time when I read Emily's Runaway Imagination...It is not a great book or something like that...but I completely savoured the moment I read that book...It was a second-hand book...I was around 14 years...The old book smell...the character Emily...the illustration on the cover...the farm.. In short I longed to be Emily.. It was truly a magical experience..:):D

Waking up on a Saturday morning with the sunlight streaming through my window after falling asleep reading a book.

I like to write down whatever books I have read. I started doing this senior year of high school. I wrote down every book starting in Aug 08 so once I got to Aug 09 & realized I read 60 books in a year, I was proud. Sadly, I've had random years since then where I'd be in some reading funk and just stop. I'm only at 160 now.

Also, when I finally bought most of VC Andrews books :)

When I was in junior high, my best friend and I had a "Pendragon Party"... and it was magical.
I don't know if you're familiar with the Pendragon series - it's a middle-grade/YA fantasy series; before the Hunger Games, before Twilight hit it big, before all that -

We literally pooled the Pendragon books we owned to make up the complete series (I think there are 8 books in all), and sat up in my room, and read together for HOURS...stopping only when we finished a book, to then pick up the next in the series.

So much intensive reading energy concentrated in one room!

Reading the entire Harry Potter series outloud when my daughter was a newborn. I wanted her to hear my voice and to hear me reading.

Finishing Les Miserables before the movie came out.

The first day I picked up Harry Potter.

Reading (and crying) over a George Herriot book..I have such a soft side for animals...

Reading Sophie's World as a teen and then sending it to my first boyfriend who loved it just as much as I did.

Saying goodbye to Harry Potter.

When I went away for college I lived close by to a Barnes and Noble and every Wednesday, Friday and on the weekend I would spend up to 6 hours in there just reading. I miss that!!! And I miss working at my library

The first time I cried after finishing a really good book series. I can't remember the series but I remember the tears.

This is really sad but its my favorite memory.

My dad died 4 years ago from lung cancer. When he was sick and at home he liked to have someone sittings next to him in his bed when he was laying down even if he was sleeping. Sometimes his head hurt or his legs hurt and he would ask whoever was with him to massage them. One day I was home and he asked me to stay with him. I sat in the bed next to him for 5 hours, reading the book that would become my favorite books while he slept or while I rubbed his head. Its my best memory because I was able to spend time with my dad before he was gone. The book is Nevermore by Kelly Creagh and everytime I see it, it reminds me of my dad and the time we spent together. Its also helped that it is an all around great book and its my favorite because of its content and the memory it gives me.

I live in the characters while reading a book..

The most fantastic moments are the moments when small explanations by authors about small things..

Whenever I am feeling down nothing cheers me up better then a trip to the bookstore, even if I don't buy anything just looking at shelf after shelf of books puts a smile on my face

I honestly don't know if my mother read a lot to me when I wasn't able to read myself. but I do remember a story about a bookworm who ate some letters from fairytale titles and I remember laughing a lot when my mother was reading it to me with the missing letters.
My childhood wasn't easy so, this might be also one of my favorite childhood memories overall.

Does that count?

My favourite memory is just finishing a book that takes you to different places. Its not a specific memory. Its just the feeling you get when you are overwhelmed with so many different emotions after reading a spectacular book :)

Reading The Unseen by Richie Tankersley Cusick. I'm pretty sure I cried twice, none of my predictions were correct, and to this day I still can't tell you what the hell happened. It was just one of those books that goes back and forth so many times you get lost in it and when it's over you have more questions than when you started. But it stays with me always.

Walking into Barnes & Noble Jr. for the first time. The experience was totally different than walking into a library because there was so much more to choose from.

finally finding A Girl of the Limberlost after a long search. Ended up having to order it in a bookstore in Michigan..

When my sister and I were little my mother used to get into bed with us and read Grimms Bros. Fairy tales at bed time. I get my love of reading from Mom.

When I found my love for the Harry Potter books, I was 14 years old. Good time, good times.

When I was feeling really down and depressed, I made friends with my local librarians and visited the library practically every day! They and the books really helped me make it through.

Sitting in the backseat of the car with one of my parents and learning to read through street signs!