Were you always a reader?
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Were you always a reader?
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Ditto!MsMartha wrote:I've been a reader for a long time. Before I learned to read, my parents would read to me--one way or the other, apparently I never want to stop!
I have started reading by myself when I was in the first grade, and never stop since.
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I do tend to go through phases where I'll read nonstop and then not at all. When I'm in a reading phase, I can have books read sometimes in a day if I don't have anything else to do.
The kindle app I have on my phone is my best friend. I have tons of books stored in my account. I have having access to millions of books at the touch of a finger. However, nothing beats holding an actual book, being able to smell the pages of the books, and all that jazz.
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My Dad or Mom would take me to the library every other Saturday where I'd check out the maximum of 5 books and be chomping at the bit to get back for new ones. When I was about 10, my folks signed a permission for me to have an adult level library card, so I could check out any book I wanted. They also placed no restrictions on my reading choices.
I was ecstatic when I discovered Hemingway and then Faulkner.
Always have been a voracious reader, still am at age 74.
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I loved astronomy as a kid and built a telescope to look at the Moon and planets, was thrilled to see the moons of Jupiter and so on. My pals thought I was goofy because a telescope was "silly".
And thus began the separation.