Who instilled a love of reading in you?
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Re: Who instilled a love of reading in you?
—Ernest Hemingway
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I feel really lucky because of all four kids (of which I am the third), I was the only one who enjoyed that privilege. Thanks, Dad. I love you. <3
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Mrs. Irene Mayer, my freshman and senior high school English teacher. One of the greatest regrets of my life is that I never told her how much her classes meant to me, and how much the quality of her teaching had changed my life. She was the greatest teacher I have ever known. If all of my teachers had been like her I could have achieved great things. I tried, I really did, to contact her many years after I had graduated and she had retired from teaching, but as would be expected the school system would not divulge any contact information and she was unlisted in the phone directory. I should have tried harder. I should have hired a detective. She died only recently - 2012. There was still time.
It pains me to remember the day that Mrs. Mayer read the short story Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield aloud to us and in the middle of it broke down sobbing. Why didn't I leave my desk and put my arm around her instead of sitting like the others with my mouth agape and stupefied? Why didn't I pick up her book and continue when she could no longer speak through the raking sobs? Perhaps, given the subject matter of the story, this was her own means of catharsis - her own confession, as I am confessing to you - of her regret that she did not express gratitude to her own mentor. Or perhaps it was an acknowledgement of her acceptance of the ungratefulness of students to whom she had dedicated her life.
And so I pen this belated tribute to the finest teacher it was ever my good fortune to know, dedicating any worthwhile contributions I have made to this forum as well as any of my modest writing achievements to her as well, and cast it out upon aether in the hope that Shelly's genii or Keat's nightengale might find it and bear it to her. Thank you Mrs. Mayer.
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Now that I have my own daughter, I'm trying to follow in my mother's footsteps. My husband and I have set a goal to read her 1000 books before she goes to Kindergarten.
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