I was very lucky, I was encouraged to read, but allowed to pick my own books. Once when I picked a book I subsequently found I didn't like I was told that I didn't have to read it if I didn't want to.
At primary school age reading was one of the things that I was genuinely very good at: I was awful at writing, good at maths and utterly hopeless at sport.
I did once try reading David Copperfield; it was awful! I tried really, really hard to read it; and on more than one ocasion. Luckily by that time I knew that I didn't have to finish a book.
When I was about fifteen I was getting whole armfuls of books from the mobile library that came round every two weeks and was devouring them at a rate of two or three a day. Most of them were inch-thick SF books.
Over my childhood I read several books more than once, one seventeen times. Others I went back to simply for the joy of reading them despite them being years too young for me.
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Date: 2008-01-22 01:07 pm (UTC)I was very lucky, I was encouraged to read, but allowed to pick my own books. Once when I picked a book I subsequently found I didn't like I was told that I didn't have to read it if I didn't want to.
At primary school age reading was one of the things that I was genuinely very good at: I was awful at writing, good at maths and utterly hopeless at sport.
I did once try reading David Copperfield; it was awful! I tried really, really hard to read it; and on more than one ocasion. Luckily by that time I knew that I didn't have to finish a book.
When I was about fifteen I was getting whole armfuls of books from the mobile library that came round every two weeks and was devouring them at a rate of two or three a day. Most of them were inch-thick SF books.
Over my childhood I read several books more than once, one seventeen times. Others I went back to simply for the joy of reading them despite them being years too young for me.