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sam (hiatus due to school)
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Mar 19, 2024 11:54PM
i'm sorry if this has been asked before but what book(s) got you to love reading? for me it was the famous five series by enid blyton. i read that when i was 6 or 7 years old and fell in love
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Blended by Sharon m Draper I read it when I was 7 or 8 and fell in love with reading
Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (read mid 1960's)
This is hard! My mom read to me from a young age so I don’t know for sure. Good Night Moon, the Very Hungry Caterpillar. I loved all Tommy dePaola, particularly Strega Nona. Also everything Cynthia Rylant such as Henry and Mudge and Mr. Putter and Tabby. Also the Little House books. My mom introduced us to these very early on.
The Magic Tree House series! I started reading the books in 3rd grade and it was the first time I felt so smart and independent steamrolling through book after book all by myself without my parents or my teachers help
Jessica by Kevin Henkes. I don’t remember if I created the imaginary friend of my youth before or after this book was a part of my life.
a good girls guide to murder trilogy !
Hush Hush by Rebecca Fitzpatrick started my fantasy obsession - I was around 13 years old! Now I’m 25 and finishing the ACOTSR series ✨
The miserables I was 12 when I started reading both of the books and I was really enthusiasted by them , Victor Hugo is a really good author and after that I started reading other classis novels.
I honestly couldn't tell you. My parents were avid readers so there were already hundreds of books on shelves all over our home before I was born. When I came along they put a bookshelf in the nursery that would go on to become my bedroom and started to fill it with books suitable for various age-groups. I was read to every night and learned to read/recognise the basic letters, my name and those of my family, about a month before I turned three. Then it became a nightly practice to have them read to me after I'd tried to read a few short words, then short phrases, getting gradually longer over time. I knew I loved being read to and remember having a whole shelf of classics that I was picking up and putting back until I was able to read for myself, but the very first book I can actually remember reading was Tom Sawyer. I can even remember having dreams where Tom was my friend and we would go down to the river in the town where I lived, and we'd have lots of adventures. (That I shared the same first name as the character of Becky Thatcher probably helped to cement this platonic, literary, meet-cute!) I can still remember one of those dreams quite vividly. Tom had swum out in the water and gotten caught in some kind of current and I had to run down the bank so I could hold out something (a tree branch I think) for him to grab and get to safety. I woke up in the middle of the night after having that one.Since then I've always been a reader, always had lots of books around me and in my formative years was a member of the local library where we (the children) were only supposed to be able to take out four books per fortnight, but I was allowed an extra one because the librarian knew how fast I read (and was probably sick of me constantly haranguing her about whether a new batch of books for the kids' section had come in yet). My friend who was also a member of the library and devoured books too, would come with me after school once a week, because we prided ourselves on not needing an entire fortnight to read a paltry five titles, lol. Good times.
There are lots of books I remember reading - probably because I've reread them over time, not just because they were awesome - and classics like Jane Eyre, Little Women (plus the sequels), Emily Of New Moon (and subsequent instalments in the trilogy) are still long-time favourites. But I know that I've read thousands over the years and I feel a little sad that I now find it hard to remember all the greats. I'm at that age where like Homer Simpson, every time I have to learn a new thing, and old thing has to exit my mind to make room for it. But if someone were to bring a book up, and it happened to be one that I'd read at some point in the past I would soon find the old cogs clunk into gear and memories I didn't know I had would spring almost fully formed into my consciousness.
Tl;dr - Tom Sawyer. I think. Maybe. Probably. Most likely.
The fault in our stars! I know most people read it in middle school, but i read it for the first time when i was 16, and it was the first book that made me cry and that i was actually exited to read.
as a kid i honestly dont remember bc i read so many but more recently would be a few, five summers by una lamarche (summer 2022), where the crawdads sing by delia owens(winter 2022/early2023) and maybe someday by colleen hoover, and ik (other than the first one) there are controversial things said about the authors but the book didnt do anything and i read them and fell in love with them before i even knew anything about the authors so no one come at me( even if you did i wouldn’t care everyone has opinions!)
Warrior cats and then the Inheritance Games. But also Harry Potter and the Inkheart trilogy
Grims Fairy Tale. My cousin has this beautiful and thick book, but as a child (5 years old I think), Im not allowed to touch it as they said my hands are dirty. HAHAHA
anyway i thought the book was beautiful and magical with its illustration and all. so i guess thats the time.
I always loved reading picture books, but I didn't get into reading by myself without the help of my parents when I got into Junie B. Jones when I was in kindergarten :)
I have always been a reader as far as I can remember, but I did stop reading books for a few years in my late childhood / tween years. I was obsessed with the Rainbow Fairies books. Notable things that got me back into reading as a teen were : Twilight, The Hunger Games, Divergent (the basics for a 2010s teen tbh).
