Who inspires/inspired you to read? Who has been your biggest reading cheerleader? ?????
Who inspires/inspired you to read? Who has been your biggest reading cheerleader?
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Who inspires/inspired you to read? Who has been your biggest reading cheerleader?
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My parents <3
Definitely my grandmother.
My mom. She told me she used to read astronomy books to me when I was still in the womb. Lo and behold, I never pass up a chance to look up on a clear night…
Both my parents. They read to me from in the womb on. Lol I’ve always been a reader.
My mom first inspired me to read. When I got in high school, I was much more concerned with boys and things like that and I hated the required reading. My freshman English teacher helped to pull me out of that funk and see the importance and joy in some of those books.
My mom
My dad without a doubt
At the risk of sounding egotistical I was always self motivated in my reading since I was a kid. I come from a family of non readers so it became an alternative to bad 70’s TV and an escape from a dull middle class environment. As we advance into a culture aimed towards a certain demographic which I do not belong reading remains an escape from a culture that offers little in ways of substance or beauty.
My mom!
My daughter is my best cheerleader.
School teacher.
My dad, I miss him.
My Grams (moms mom). She always had a cheesy harlequin romance in her hand and when I hit about 12/13 she would hide them in my dresser before she left to go back home. She’s responsible for my love of romance. ❤️ from there it just kicked started my love of reading in most all genres! Didn’t have the best childhood and Reading was the perfect eacape?
My friend encouraged me, then later maybe my dad. My mum and sister are non readers. They are puzzled as to my habit. My dad has passed.
My mother is a retired reading teacher ? her approach worked best. She let us read things that peaked our interest, I was reading John Grisham in the 6th grade….if I didn’t understand a word, she would put it in the proper context for that particular book. That is how I learned the same word can have multiple meanings and spellings.
My dad ❤️
My grandma? !!! She was a big reader !! Later my mom !!
My mom taught me to read at about 5 and I fell in love immediately. My neighbor was an older Brown University professor, who noticed and he’d buy me books and write little encouraging notes inside. My dad put a small fortune into Waldons Books in Wakefield. I’d come home every Sunday to my mom with a stack of new books and would need a new stack again by the next Friday. I was a lucky kid. Read to your kids; they get to live a thousand lives, and it will stick with them forever. ?✌️?
My mom got me into reading …she introduced me to the world of Enid Blyton when I was 5 and then for the past decade and a half my hubby has made sure I am always surrounded by good books to read ❤
My arsewipe of an RE Teacher. Inspired me to read because he hated the idea of it. “People get ideas from books, don’t want that.”
My mum ? And dad, and sister. Everybody was always reading in our house ??
My aunt – she is a voracious reader, and the most intelligent person I’ve ever seen in my life. Despite reading fiction all the time, she graduated the uni with three gold medals and currently serving as a diplomat for the government. <3
LeVar Burton. Reading Rainbow was my favorite show when I was a kid.
My twin sister @Victoria we are both each other’s cheer leader! ❤
My Da, he always wanted to know what I was reading ?
No one; there were times even when being seen with a book was a source of ridicule. Yet, somehow, the written word won.
Whoever ridiculed you (I know that feeling) were ignorant, I’m sorry that happened Oscar?
I don’t remember, but my mom taught me how to read chapter books. I was the first 1st or second grader to read Harry Potter. Thanks to her, I was always reading passed a child’s own grade level (I think)
No one. Just back in 9th class some of my classmates encouraged me to read a certain book and I read it. And then I read another and another and so on…
What was the book?
Hex Hall
My dad!
My mom! I hated reading through high school until i found graphic novels. My mom would say ‘I don’t care what you read, as long as you are enjoying it.’ She always made sure I had something to read
My parents were not huge readers for themselves when I was little, but they made sure I had books of my own, even if it was just those Whitman or Rand McNally books from the grocery store..but as I got to be school age, they bought any book I picked up at garage sales. Then after my dad died when I was ten, mom did two things that really clinched the deal for me as a reader. She got a library card and joined the Doubleday Bargain Book Club. Some of those books from her sign up haul are still favorites. Then, I married a reader…he became my greatest support/enabler. His tastes and interests sometimes dovetail mine perfectly, so that we can share a book. A couple of our kids are huge readers too; I’ve gleaned a lot of good reads from them.
My grandparents house, didn’t see them read but there were huge bookshelves and so many books in them. They had black (What looked like leather) Harvard classics.
My dad
My momma
My two aunts. They would recommend books to each other and share books. They got me started on Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove series about 9 years ago and I’ve been reading ever since.
I saw the X-Mas movies and this got me interested in Debbie Mccombers stories
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I had two friends from grade school on, who also were readers. We swapped books and titles from 6th grade through 12th. Thanks to my friend Barbara, I learned that Heidi wasn’t a stand alone book at all…And my friend Vicky introduced me to Andre Norton..almost forgot, she also introduced me to my first used book store..
I grew up watching my mother read. I lived two doors down from my public library, and was my second home.
My father put an additional bookshelf in my room when I was 6 years old with all of his books in it. LOL! I started opening and reading what I could. He used to take my brother and I to his favorite bookstore every Sunday evening after dinner. The bookstore was named Wilkies and it was located downtown in Dayton, Ohio.
school
I had three elementary teachers who read aloud every day. Nobody reads A Wrinkle In Time better than Virginia Schoech..
My Aunt she bought me my first set of books by Enid Blyton
My Mommy Dearest?
Lol
My mom
My mom and school and other people who read
my best firend’s mom
I met this lady, my father’s aunt, and she had this big library with library ladder and all. She told me that only reading makes us free and if you read your are never alone. I asked her, did you read all of those books? She told me, no, but, there’s not such thing as too many books. I was 6 =) That lady was Mercedes Pintor Genaro, a Puerto Rican writer.
My sanity
My senior English teacher, Mr. Sweeley!!!
My school librarian when I was a kid.
My Dad.
My mum. She would read to me at night when I was little and encouraged me to read whenever I could. We would always go to the library to find new books to borrow ?
No one really. Maybe reading is in my genes though …my granny & uncle were prolific readers
My grandparents –
My children are my biggest fan! My daughter gave me a Stephen King book as a gift.. She is also my partner when buying books. She buys her own copy whenever we go to our fave bookshop.. My son is the one who encourages me to buy and follow my instincts whenever im in doubt about a particular book..
I use to read french Bible for my granny, but i read English novels during my spare time at very young age.
My aunt, who lent me her Stephen King books when I was a kid.
My Nan (mums mum)
My sister, she is a high school librarian.
My biggest inspiration were my parents.
My mother 🙂 <3
My mother ?
My very favorite 2nd grade teacher, Mrs, Conrad. I still miss her.
@Ruby this will actually be you.
My mom read Zane Grey Westerns and she really got into Haraquin romance books ?I was not interested in those but as I got older I enjoyed her Zane Grey stories!
I think it’s either in you or it’s not. Having said that, I do try to encourage my kids
At present moment I am reading Cussler,Frost!?????❤️?
4AM and it’s quite enough to hear my blood pressure make my ears ring and the ticking of a clock reminds me time will go on but my life will pass on with no no memory except the thoughts I wrote and have been published so as to mark my passing in time !
Fuck history!
Humans have been altering history from the beginning of time!???????❤️??And I read to remind my brain how to do what society and man made devices want us not to do?!??????????❤️?
Possibly a friendly competition with a friend in grade school. Who read the most books in the Nancy Drew series.