Were you always a reader?

[ChillAndRead]

I've always been the reading kind I'm afraid!
I was never so popular in school or so, and books were always a mean to travel to magical places!

[Life in Fiction]

Always a reader.

My mum reading a bedtime story to me used to be my favourite time of the day. She tells me that she enjoyed it when I started to read the stories to her <3

In primary school, I loved trying to see if I can get through more reading levels so that I could get to the thicker books I had always wanted to read.

When I reached the point in school where I could choose my any book from the library I was lost forever. Constantly drawn into the world of fiction.

[The Researcher]

I think i was a born reader. As long as my memory goes, i always remember myself reading something. My mother had to literally touch me and shake a little to bring me out of my reverie as i never heard her calling me when i was reading.I don't remember myself indulging in sports or any other activities. My brothers used to tell me that the books will not be banned from this planet and that i can postpone the reading for few minutes.

[cherryalakei]

Yes and no.
I grew up with a learning disability in math and advanced skills in reading and language arts. I read books as early as I could, since it was something that I enjoyed being an imaginative and creative kid, and I was an only child with very few friends. I had quite the collection of books for a kid my age. I regularly went to the public library to take books out, but read them so fast I'd be there the next day. I was a speed reader as well, and actually won a couple local school contests speed reading as a kid. I loved reading until one day I didn't. I pretty much stopped reading books when I became a teenager.
In place of books, I read fan fiction occasionally. Aside from school assignments there was no real reading for pleasure, until I went to college.

I moved away to college like a lot of kids do, but I didn't move until I was going for my bachelors, at the lovely age of 22. I bought Twilight, and my friends donated me some books, telling me I'd have time to read, and I should because up at dry campus in the middle of nowhere-I was going to be bored. Twilight brought me back into the world of books. I quickly fell back in love with reading, and have not stopped since, I just keep wanting to read more, and more and more.

[Insightsintobooks]

I've always been a reader. Ever since I was young I've had a book with me constantly.

[Cowgirl888]

As far back as I can remember I have always been a reader.

[dana012]

Yeah ever since I was a kid. My mother introduced me to reading and bought me a lot of books. As an introvert, I preferred reading to playing with my peers.

[Angandmae]

I have always loved reading, ever since I learned how. I would stay up most of the night reading and my parents would always catch me and tell me to go to sleep.

[Bunny_Redd]

I started reading in the 2nd grade, that's when it clicked for me, before that stories were boring and too simple, but when they started having stories and plots I was hooked ever since.

[Tommie H Odom]

Yes. As far back as I can remember. We started young. Our parents were avid readers and we are too. The books and literature were there and we read it.

[SurferGirl5304]

I was not a reader until high school. My friends introduced me to anime and manga and ever since then I have been able to read anything, whether there are pictures or not.

[tinmmm]

yes, since I was a little girl. I read even before learning how to read, Just turning the pages and pretending so.

same! Then when I learned how those words sound I would read them aloud and with intonation even though I don't understand what they mean (they were in English which is not my first language). My sisters never went through that phase, or at least not in that degree, so I think my parents already knew it's not just me learning how to read.

[BrandiLynnex3]

I would say I always have been, but I go through phases were I read 3 books a day then I switch to one a week. Lol.

[liniageline89]

My favorite quote from my dad is, "Readers make leaders." And he is a brawny, extroverted ex-Marine. He works in rescue and relief and runs a jungle survival training program. Here I was, a little girl with adoring eyes, thinking, 'If he can be all active and successful and be such a leader while saying readers make leaders...then maybe it is true.'
Ever since, whenever my friends would laugh at me and call me a nerd for reading all the time and try to convince me that reading was not cool, I would just point to my big scary dad and ignore them. Because I knew the truth. I have been reading since 4 and a half years old and never lost the love.

[Celticlady]

I have always loved reading since I learned with the books See Spot Run. I remember one year for Christmas I received Black Beauty as a Christmas gift. I read it and read it and read it..lol. I think I loved reading so much because I was an abused child and reading kind of took me away from that for a time at least temporarily. So currently I read 125-150 books a year. My house has so many books in bookcases all over except the bathroom.