what books got you in to reading?

[emily]

loved roald dahl, charlie and the chocolate factory especially (it was the book I chose to do my first school write up on)

I also really liked the secret garden, the railway children and a little later on I really got in to around the world in 80 days

[ravenna]

The first two books I remember reading are One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and The Monster at the End of This Book.  I read both to my daughter and the former is mostly unbearable nonsense to me now, but Monster is still fun.

We moved when I was 8 and my copy of Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great was pretty worn out by then.  The spine was held together with duct tape, lol.   

I barely remember a time when I didn't read.  

[trixie]

The one I remember most from grade school is Beverly Cleary's Ellen Tibbits. My second grade teacher thought I was such a good reader that when I was in 3rd grade, she asked if I could come back to her class once a week and read it to her new students.

[Pixie]

For me it was fairy tales I guess, my parents used to read me a different one every evening. They had bought me that big ass book that compiled abridged versions of tales from all over the world, and I think that was it, discovering that there were so many stories from so many places and I wanted to know them all

I don't know if it's an ADHD thing, but once I discovered an author I liked (still do that today) I binge EVERYTHING they ever wrote

[emily]

Jan 25, 2022 17:25:11 GMT ravenna said:

The first two books I remember reading are One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and The Monster at the End of This Book.  I read both to my daughter and the former is mostly unbearable nonsense to me now, but Monster is still fun.

We moved when I was 8 and my copy of Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great was pretty worn out by then.  The spine was held together with duct tape, lol.   

I barely remember a time when I didn't read.  

that reminds me of 2 bedtime stories my mom used to read to me.

the house that sneezed, and burglar bill

I was obsessed with those stories- and must have worn both books out in the end

I don't know why, looking back.. the house that sneezed especially seems like a pretty boring book

but it's funny what your kid mind does..    

[dawnm74]

My mom & grandparents were all readers so I always had books to read growing up. My mom loves science fiction, my grandfather loved nature books, my grandmother loved mysteries...I was exposed to all of those genres. My favorites include true crime, biography, as well as classic novels/authors like Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, etc. Some of my favorite books are "Pride & Prejudice", "The Great Gatsby", "Helter Skelter".....& tons more! I guess if I have to pick 1 book that got me started I would have to pick "The Great Gatsby". I saw the movie w/Mia Farrow as a kid & then read the novel. Of course, the book was way better.

[Cartermrc]

I honestly don't know. My mother was an avid reader and I still have my 1950's era hardcover editions of classics like Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, Charlotte's Web, The Secret Garden, Beatrix Potter and many more. I got cool books for Christmas-the hardcover ones with the original illustrations-and we went to the library every 2 weeks. 

I did all of that with my son and daughter too-it was fun. 

[tulip]

I loved being read to as a child, the books that launched me into loving to read myself were Socks and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankenweiler.

[inigomontoya]

Our mother used to read a chapter a day to us...just one, no matter how much we clamored for more. So I don’t know if it was any one book...but 50 some odd years later, we three and my parents are still at it...

[kittylady]

There's so many to choose from! My mum must have been able to recite 101 Dalmations to us without reading the book, along with Bertha The Racing Pigeon and we regularly cycled through every Asterix book that our local library had. The Little Grey Rabbit books were another series that I read again and again.

As I got older I started reading light detective fiction (Arthur Conan Doyle, John Creasey, Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie etc), got sent home from school with a very stern letter for being found in possession of a Jackie Collins and still read a little of anything and everything that takes my fancy.

[beeyotch]

LOL, caught with a Jackie Collins! They did seem so naughty then. But they taught 10-year-old me about life!

I can't remember my first books. Probably something from school. They shoved Shel Silverstein and Where the Wild Things Are down our throats at the library in elementary school, but I think the old school Nancy Drew mysteries first ignited that fire for reading. Then Judy Blume.