identifying as a reader, growing up

[belenen]

When I was a kid I identified as a 'reader.' I think above anything else that was my self-image. From the time I started reading, every word that came within sight was fascinating: I read the toothpaste tube, sounding out the ridiculous ingredients. I tore through the beginner reading books my school made my parents get with wild delight and

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[ineverycolor]

I was the same way with books. OMG I used to LOOOVe the babysitters club, the sweet valley series, the fear street, goosebumps and then I would tear through stephen king, john grisham, mary higgins clark.... it's funny i slowed down my voracious reading once i like got past the age of fifteen because then i thought i should be reading more mature stuff and i would try to tackle the classics but i just didn't devour them the same way with the same speed as a good 'story'.

This year I dedicated to 'allow' myself to spend all of 2014 reading only bestseller novels. And I just want to see how many I can read in a year if I just indulge in good stories. :-P

[beauty_forashes]

Books were my favorite companions as a kid (and not much has changed). I was fortunate the schools I went to all had school libraries, and the librarian arranged for me to have access to the "older kids'" section when I'd plowed through all the kiddie books.