WhatIf
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Post by WhatIf on Jun 24, 2011 12:57:37 GMT -5
I don't think that there was a point when I became an avid reader.
I've always been a reader. It's my mums fault. She read a lot.
I remember reading Dr. Seuss books a lot, as well as anything about horses. Margaret Henry was my favorite author when I was in Elementary school. After that I read and reread the Harry Potter books a lot.
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Alis
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Post by Alis on Jul 11, 2011 9:14:21 GMT -5
The American Girl diary books. Not to books about the dolls, but those hardcover ones with the little bookmark ribbons that were fake historical diaries. I devoured those.
Terry Brooks and Jules Verne were also partly responsible as I reread A Journey to the Center of the Earth about nine times a week when I was eight and I remember speed reading through all of my aunt's Terry Brooks books, that she had in a giant box in the basement, around the same time.
The Terry Brooks forum was actually my first forum way back in the day when I was an eleven year old on the internet. They were very nice people, even though they did convince an eleven year old to pick up George R. R. Martin books. I was never the same again.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jul 11, 2011 10:42:51 GMT -5
The American Girl diary books. Not to books about the dolls, but those hardcover ones with the little bookmark ribbons that were fake historical diaries. I devoured those. Oooh, I loved those. The Royal Diaries, too. They were good.... |
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Post by tosney on Jul 17, 2011 18:48:03 GMT -5
I loved books before I could read.
Apparently, I would just look at the pages of the book and turn them, even though I couldn't read them.
But yeah, I've always loved stories and reading. Probably the books that helped me jump from children's books to longer books and novels were Harry Potter though. I was so young when I read them, I didn't understand one or two things that were going on (actually just the romantic tensions... Or maybe that was just an omen of my current lack of romantic social skills) but reading something that was a little bit too advanced definitely made a jump in my reading skills. I was probably in first or second grade.
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Post by Gina on Jul 20, 2011 9:31:18 GMT -5
I don't remember a time when I didn't love reading, but I remember what I read. I loved Madeline, Harry Potter, and The Babysitters Club. I read A Series of Unfortunate Events, but looking back, I never liked the sad feeling I got while reading them. Whenever I would run out of books to read, I would read the encyclopedia. It never occurred to me that this wasn't normal; I just thought the encyclopedia was a book about everything. I knew stuff I really shouldn't have known at such a young age.  When everyone in my second grade class was afraid of monsters, I was afraid of flesh-eating bacteria. |
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 21, 2011 0:33:50 GMT -5
When I was in the 3rd grade I use to read a lot of Dr. Seuss and books like "The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight and Other Poems," and the Scary Stories as well. From there I sort of fell out of reading until the sixth grade when I became hooked on Nancy Drew. From there I continued onto the Goosebumps, but just when I had developed the courage to ask my mother to take me to get a library cared, we moved away from the states.
Here in Puerto Rico there are no public libraries and to make matters worse I couldn’t make friends because of the language barrier (the official language is Spanish). My only salvation was “The Book Shop”, which was of course the only bookstore I had seen since moving. Every trip to the mall I would go straight into the book store and read the first thing I found, but the store closed the year the first Harry Potter movie came out. I remember it clearly because I bought Chamber of Secrets because I couldn’t wait for the movies in order to know what happened next. After that Amazon.com kept me from going insane.
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Post by serpentheart on Jul 23, 2011 8:03:49 GMT -5
The first novel I ever read, with the help of my Dad, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Ahh beautiful and heartbreaking! From there: Narnia, Tamora Pierce and so on.
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Post by dtaymoore on Nov 20, 2011 6:32:07 GMT -5
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was the first book I read by myself. I was 7 when it first came out and my parents would each read a chapter a night to my brother me. But when they started trailing off after the tenth chapter, I picked up the book myself and read the rest of it. From their I began reading little stories, like the Royal Diaries and the other books that were made like journals. So Harry Potter started it all for me. Pretty good book to start off my reading career with too.  |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Nov 20, 2011 12:27:41 GMT -5
I wrote a blog post recently on the book I'm most grateful for, and it's pretty relevant to this thread: onlyaworkingtitle.tumblr.com/post/12272096419/grateful-for-good-booksBit of excerpt: I have a ton of fantastic books to be thankful for — Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness Quartet and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, which made me love fantasy; Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, which made me love language — but above them all is the book that made me love reading.
Doctor Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go. Anywho, if you're interested in reading the rest of it, like I said, it's pretty relevant to the thread. And it details a giveaway! Who doesn't love a good giveaway? |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Nov 29, 2011 16:41:33 GMT -5
Book I'm grateful for? Riding Freedom. You can read about it here: here. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's because it's based on the life of a real individual. Perhaps it's due to my love for horses. Perhaps it's because I can identify with the strong female lead. I don't know, but I love that book. |
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Kori
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Post by Kori on Dec 15, 2011 20:47:29 GMT -5
Tamora Peirce is one of those who really pulled me into fantasy as a kid, and the only one I could really remember reading when I was smaller. She's also who showed me that female characters could kick ass too. I'll always have a special place in my heart for her. <3
Later there was Lemony Snicket, Phillip Pullman, Garth Nix, and others of that vein.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Dec 16, 2011 13:00:14 GMT -5
Tamora Peirce is one of those who really pulled me into fantasy as a kid, and the only one I could really remember reading when I was smaller. She's also who showed me that female characters could kick ass too. I'll always have a special place in my heart for her. <3 Later there was Lemony Snicket, Phillip Pullman, Garth Nix, and others of that vein. Huzzah, good taste! (Also, huzzah, new blood!) |
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Post by Kori on Dec 21, 2011 13:28:03 GMT -5
Tamora Peirce is one of those who really pulled me into fantasy as a kid, and the only one I could really remember reading when I was smaller. She's also who showed me that female characters could kick ass too. I'll always have a special place in my heart for her. <3 Later there was Lemony Snicket, Phillip Pullman, Garth Nix, and others of that vein. Huzzah, good taste! (Also, huzzah, new blood!) Why thank you. ^^ |
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Post by mallory on Dec 23, 2011 23:24:49 GMT -5
The books that made me a reader were the Romona books by Beverly Cleary. My Kindergarten teacher recommended them and my mother and I would read them together every night. I have been reading ever since.
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Post by sara on Jan 4, 2012 23:09:33 GMT -5
Harry Potter, the Silverwing series by Kenneth Oppel, A Series of Unfortunate events, and other children's series like that. I also used to LOVE Gail Carson Levine books when I was in elementary school.
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When everyone in my second grade class was afraid of monsters, I was afraid of flesh-eating bacteria. 
