How did you become a reader?

[delphipsmith]

Recently over on GoodReads, someone started a discussion on "How Did You Become a Reader?" and kicked it off with the following three questions, to which I have added a fourth

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[nocturnus33]

I don’t remember stuff from my childhood as much as I would like too. But I do know that reading was an important thing in my life. I attend in an awful “pink-Floyd-like” school, and whan I was little I thought that I was a slow reader. In parallel to my schooling experience, I was a good reader. Never a good student. I read to avoid the awful shadows of dictatorship, I read to avoid my parents crumbling marriage and my Darwinian school system. My dad used to be a journalist and he travelled a lot. He always brought a book for me after his travels. He use to invite me to Valparaiso, we went in a train. He and I, both bought a book or a magazine, and read all the way to the beach. We went to have ice-cream and, guess what?, we each read our book. The bonus point was that my little sister was left behind (Awful, but at age 7 it was lovely). My grandmother had 28 grandchildren. I was number 20 but very close to her. She always thought of me as the scholarly one….even if I was a very poor student. She told me stories, read books and took

[kellychambliss]

Ah, Half Magic! Loved that.

I really enjoyed your reading history; I will reward myself with doing this meme once I finish my conference paper for next week (I'm actually ahead of the game -- starting drafting a whole week ahead of time /g/).

I so hear you about not going anywhere without a book. It's a habit I still have.

[shiv5468]

I probably was read to as a child, but I was such an early reader - 2 - that I don't remember it.

[lash_larue]

Books were a big item in my house when I was a kid. But then at first there was no television. I'm old. mother would read to me, and every Easter we (the kids) got a book along with candy and a new outfit for church. I remember getting "The Big Golden Book of Science" one year. I think it was that book that had the awesome Q&A - "What is the fastest growing tree in the world

[teddyradiator]

I loved Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle! I must have checked that book out about twenty times from the library!