 debbyski says: I spent all my time growing up in the public library. I remember hiding "The Sterile Cuckoo" and "Catcher In The Rye" and "A Clockwork Orange" from my parents. It was my little secret, my corner of the world where people were different; like me  "One day, he tapped a wall of stone. A door appeared. Behind it was a different world, not better really, but brighter and less dull. I read for the same reason that he tapped: to look for doors, to push through walls." books are a safehaven I started learning to read at age 4. By the time I was 6, I had devoured Grimms's Fairy Tales. Early adolescence had my book shelf filled with Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton. In high school and college while everyone was reading "Cliff Notes", I was reading Gone With the Wind, A Brave new World...oh why bore you, I could go on and on. I leave you with a quote: "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!  The world would be so boring without books. With books I can travel, have an adventure, learn about the past and the present , cooking foods from different countries.... and so much more. I wa able to read newspapers by age three, which I attribute, in part, to my favorite aunt holding me on her lap while she did the newspaper crossword and explained what she was doing - that taught me my letters. I learned most of my vocabulary be reading, not hearing the words, so there were a ton of words I knew but couldn't pronounce. The neighborhood library imposed a borrowing limit of four books at a time during the school year (a rule intended to not have recreational reading interfere with homework). I used to take four books out and bring them back two or three days later. Eventually they gave up and let me have as many as I wanted. To this day, I carry a book everywhere I go, ... "We read to know we are not alone." C.S. Lewis there was a great bbc documentary about cs lewis and a man who wrote a brilliant book about all of the mystery entailed in the books of cs lewis and his life giving meaning to the created novel worlds you might get it on the iplayer We read to grow, improve, dream, learn, escape, be entertained. What a wonderful thing reading is...even when it's not limited to 140 characters  Me too Debbs! was an oracious reader in the long gone past: now needs to find time 2 read a newspaper...dont know how time changes? this site http://www.goodreads.com has turned me into a book glutton in a good way heres all the books I have read want to reading and am reading on the site http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/336620 come and join us fellow bibliophiles! |
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