What book got you reading?
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Re: What book got you reading?
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One of them was a book called "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer, it was a book about memory, and memory techniques. Which is a subject I really enjoy. That's what set it off for me.
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That's a great book. I read it in high school, and I remember not appreciating it as much as I should have. I want to read it again, now that I have a better grip on Achebe's genius.Florence Nalianya wrote: ↑18 Jul 2019, 12:20 The book that got me reading is "things fall apart "by Chinua Achebe.
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I was a volunteer in the Young People's Department at my local library for five years. One day, when I was, fifteen, I think, I was organizing the YA shelves and I saw that book. I pulled it out, I liked the cover (judge-y!), and I read the description, approving of its premise. I checked it out, read it, loved it, and read more Sarah Dessen. I eventually stopped reading Sarah Dessen as I realized her books all kind of followed the same theme. As my friend put it once, all her books kind of "blend together". Although, I do appreciate the cameos of her other characters in her various books.
It may seem like I was a late bloomer, but I did read before, just sporadically. I wasn't a Harry Potter person, and was so scolded for that. I read The Bell Jar and Of Mice and Men and Animal Farm and The Handmaid's Tale (sounds so lame, but I discovered The Handmaid's Tale before it was cool, ha ha, joking...it's been around since 1985, if I remember my Varsity Quiz question correctly). Then, it's funny, I ended up devouring Sarah Dessen and YA up until a few years ago.
But it was Dessen, as well as Megan McCafferty's Jessica Darling series (up until about the fourth book, never read the fifth one, tried to, but...nope), that really got me into reading.
YA gets a bad rap a lot of the time, and it's nice to know that there are really shining stars that stand out. Let's not forget Ned Vizzini, Libba Bray, Anna Godbersen.
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Sometime around sixth grade a friend told me I should read Harry Potter (by this time the fourth book had come out and it disgusted me how big it was), and I thought she was truly, absolutely, entirely insane. She kept bugging me about it though and I finally checked out the first book and humored her by reading the first chapter that night. Well, a little while later I was the furthest into a book I'd ever been in my life and I'll never forget that moment. I still remember that girl's name and what she looked like because of that, though I don't remember ever speaking to her beyond those brief periods in middle school.
So like for most kids, I guess the actual love of reading started with Harry Potter. I did really like books, but I hated the process of trying to struggle through them for school. My first favorite book was a giant red Mother Goose book filled with illustrations and nursery rhymes that I attribute to creating me as I am today.