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Wacky Wednesday Poll
1) Where did you grow up?
2) Have you always been a reader?
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from?
2) Have you always been a reader?
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from?
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookstores
Re: Wacky Wednesday Poll
2) Have you always been a reader?
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from?
2) Have you always been a reader? Yep!!
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My dad used to read to us. He read things like The Lord of the Rings instead of classic fairy tales. Pretty deep stuff for a 5 year old! And my grandmother was a brilliant teacher and she made sure that I was reading well before preschool began. It was a novelty to do be able to read when the other students could not.
eta: I just remembered that my mother was a librarian, so I think the love of reading thing just came naturally.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
2) Have you always been a reader? Yup, though I fell out of reading for a while after college. I still read a good amount, but nothing like I had when I was younger or do now.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My mom was a reader and always encouraged us to go to the library with her and pick out some books. She was always there with a recommendation when I was growing up and I can still count on her for a good recommendation if I'm stuck.
2) Have you always been a reader? I was a big reader as a kid. I used to take my bike to the library a lot. I had a period of 8 years or so where I didn't read, but I'm back in full force since around 2008.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? I'm not sure really. Both my parents read, but mostly casually. My dad more than my mom though.
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
2) Have you always been a reader? Yes! The school used to call my Mom and complain that I was reading at recess instead of playing. She was like, so what's the problem?
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My Mom! She always had books around for us and made us regulars at the library.
Kate's Recipe Box || Relatively Bookish
2) Have you always been a reader? Pretty much.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? Probably from my mom. We spent a ton of time at the library when we were kids. My mom was a young mom and we were pretty poor and seeing the library was free, we spent a LOT of time there.
1. Central Illinois
2. Yes! My sister tells this story of when I got in trouble for nobody remembers what and my mom got so mad at me she took the book I was reading and tore it apart. And I cried for DAYS. I think I was in 7th or 8th grade. I didn't read much for myself in late HS, college, or grad school. After that it felt so good to read just for fun again -- I didn't have to learn anything or take notes or be quizzed.
3. I don't know. My parents aren't readers. My sister reads a few books a year. I have 3 aunts who are teachers, and I remember them giving me books when I was in early grade school, but I remember my parents telling me that it was annoying that I always had my nose stuck in a book and not paying attention to the world around me.
2) Have you always been a reader? Yes, always. I started reading when I was three. I used to read in the dark after my mom turned out the lights for me to go to bed with a tiny flashlight.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? I'm not sure. Neither of my parents are readers but they both encouraged me and used books as rewards for good grades, etc. I feel like it's something I discovered on my own.
2) Have you always been a reader? Nope, I read a little growing up but not a huge reader. It wasn't until I was about 22 and realized I really disliked watching TV because it was all crap, so I decided to pick a Mary Higgins Clark book one night and that was that.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My mom was always a huge reader, so I remember always seeing her w/ a book.
2) Have you always been a reader? Yes, though there was about a year after college when I took a brief hiatus. We moved across country to Montana and I was still settling into living there and working full time. Twilight brought me back to reading in 2008.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My parents- we would go to the library once a weekend and that is pretty much what I do now.
2) Have you always been a reader? Yes. I didn't read much during college, but Twilight got me started again.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My mom and my grandmother. My mom used to read to my sisters and me every night before bed. We loved The Indian in the Cupboard and A Cricket in Times Square and I still have pretty vivid memories of her reading to us at night. Before I knew how to read, I used to lay in bed with my grandmother and pretend to read her books with her. She was always reading something.
my read shelf:
1) NEPA!
2) Yes but I did take a long hiatus after college. I was able to do some pleasure reading in college (mostly over the summer). My 1st job out of college was crazy so I didn't do much pleasure reading until I (finally) picked up HP in 2005. My pleasure reading really picked up again once I left that job & started at my current company.
3) My parents. Both read a lot (and still do) when I was a kid. Both are huge library users. My mom used to frequently take us in the summer months & we always did the summer reading program through the library. I always received books for Christmas/birthday.
2) Have you always been a reader? Yes
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My mom. She's a huge reader.
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31
I've always been a big reader.
My love of reading really started with my Grandmother. Every year for Christmas and my birthdays she would buy me any books I ever put on a list of her no matter what. I didn't understand it then the financial implications of it but I do now. I spoke to her about it before she passed and thanked her for spending so much money when a library would have been good too but she had told me that instilling that love of reading was priceless to her. Neither of my parents would really take me to the library - they would have rather just bought me a book. Eventually they gave me permission to ride my bike to the library because the book fund was getting super pricey with how fast I was reading.
2) Have you always been a reader? Yup. I started when I was 3. I came home from Montessori school and told my mom "I don't need you anymore." LOL.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My parents were both readers when I was a kid, and we spent a lot of time at the tiny little library in our neighborhood, either for story time or just to go. I can never remember a time when I didn't have a book with me all the time.
Sugar & Spice
2) Have you always been a reader? Oh yes!
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? At the beginning of kindergarten the teacher asked us which of us already knew how to read. One boy raised his hand, and I was incredibly jealous of him and it felt like a challenge. I vowed to be the best reader in the class, and I did it. I was reading on a 12th grade level long before I left elementary school, and I always tested off the charts on those Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, which made me so happy. I read everything. I was cast as the lead in the 5th grade play because they gave the best reader the biggest part. I won two spelling bees and I attribute that to my love of reading, too. Reading is my happy place.
2) Have you always been a reader? Yup!
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My mom. She's a teacher, so she started reading to us immediately. I learned to read very young. We would have bedtime stories up until.. middle school? She had a different chapter book that she'd read to each of us separately each night. We'd do the library summer reading programs and blow all of the other participants out of the water. A fun summer tradition was to try to go to all the different libraries in the state. I have a feeling B will love reading as much as I do. By the time he was only 3 months old, his huge (6'tall by 3'wide) bookcase was completely full, plus a couple baskets of books scattered around the house, and another smaller bookcase upstairs. And all of those are books that were just given to him.. they don't include all of my children's books!! And we've already started going to story times at the library. He loves it
2) Have you always been a reader?
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from?
2) Have you always been a reader? Yep!
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My mom. She read to us all the time, bought us awesome books and took us to the library frequently. She is the best at reading out loud; she does all the voices. I don't have a lot of great memories of my parents but her reading to us is one of the good ones.
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2) Have you always been a reader? Yes. When I was growing up I read every night until I fell asleep. My friends and I made our own "libraries" and would trade books as well.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? Honestly, I am not sure. My dad is not a reader and although my mom reads now I don't remember her being a big reader when I was growing up.
IVF w/ICSI - transferred 2; froze 3
Beta #1 150 Beta #2 320 - 7/16 124 bpm (6w5d) EDD 3/6/13
Our team green baby was a girl! Emma Lynn born 2/23/13
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IVF w/ICSI - transferred 2; froze 3
Beta #1 150 Beta #2 320 - 7/16 124 bpm (6w5d) EDD 3/6/13
Our team green baby was a girl! Emma Lynn born 2/23/13
my read shelf:
2) Have you always been a reader? Yes. My mom used to tell me to go outside and play and I would go outside and read. There was a break in my for fun reading habits in college.
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My parents, both of them are big readers, they always encouraged reading. The gifts to my parents for father's/mother's day and birthdays are often books.
Books read in 2011: 111
Books read in 2012: 100
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2) Have you always been a reader? Always always always
3) Where do you think your love of reading came from? My parents. They're both teachers and read to us every night (even long after we were reading tons on our own) and my dad would do all the voices. I remember him reading us The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books when I was maybe 9 and my sisters were 2-7.
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