Do you remember what turned you into a reader?

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Re: Do you remember what turned you into a reader?

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We moved from a populated town to a middle of nowhere farm when I was a kid. That wasn't enough to turn me into a full blown reader, but blowing out my knee at 13 made me pretty sedentary... And that turned me into a reader. I've been a reader ever since, even though I do have slight lulls in my reading phases, due to job, life, what's going on, etc.
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I remember hating books till 7th grade, then I started reading twilight and have been hooked ever since.
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My English teacher. I asked how I could improve my English faster she suggested reading. I'm glad she convinced me to pick up a book.
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I remember myself, 5 years old, in a new country, with foreign faces, and completely unfamiliar with the language (English).
I knew just enough to understand when I was being made fun of by the other kids, for my accent and my pitiful grammar.
It was then that I met the Angel of my Life, my homeroom teacher. She gave me a book, one of the simplest ones she could find, and sat by me for the 30 minutes I took to read it out loud; only gently correcting my pronunciation and encouraging me every time I got a word correct. She spent hours with me, my angel, giving me book after book, and tirelessly sitting by me while I struggled through each and every one of them. After a couple months, my English had gotten a lot better, and the kids had stopped laughing, but every other day, she would pull me to the side, and give me a new book. I loved those days.
Reading became my source of comfort, the only thing that I felt safe doing. 13 years later, that hasn't changed. I owe everything I am to my homeroom teacher. She turned me into a reader.
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A certain series draw me in to reading. I do not recall the name but it was about bears.
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Only one thing- the Harry Potter series. When I watched those movies. I wanted to know the full story. So I started reading books. That is how my journey starts.
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Books existed in my life ever since I can remember. But when did I actually start reading? What made me start reading?

I have to say my mother is the reason why. She loved to read so she made sure that I was surrounded by books from the start. It started with the picture books when I was 4, then pop-up books when I was 5. When I was 8 I read my first Enid Blyton,The Secret of Moon Castle and after that I wouldn't read a book less than 200 pages. But until now my mother heavily influences my reading journey.

She gave me my first Virginia Andrews book, the iconic Flowers in the Attic at the age of 9 and my aunts looked at us like we were crazy. She introduced me to her favourite author, Stephen King with The Shining on a plane ride when I was 10, which made the passenger next to me raise his eyebrows. We found our love for Dean Koontz together at a book sale when I was 12, and she talked to me about Agatha Christie and James Hadley from her younger days even before I could find their books to read. Even when I was skeptical about the erotic themes in Fifty Shades trilogy by E.L James, my mother bought the books and told her 16 year old daughter that they are just books, and books are stories, so just read the story! :lol:

So what inspired me to start reading?
My bookworm mother, and I'm grateful for it everyday :cry:
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"You should read pocket books," my elementary batchmate once said to me when we met for probably the first time right after gradeschool graduation.

So I did, I tried browsing the store to look for something that will interest me. I saw "The Name of this Book is Secret," by Pseudonymous Bosch and upon reading the synopsis, I knew I had to get it. I was a sophomore that time, if I remember correctly. Then, everything is history. I went from that to Percy Jackson to The Hunger Games! Now, a hundred books later, I'm now resorting to classics. I'm glad that batchmate told me that I should read.
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