#TBT | My Journey As A Reader
How I became a reader...
How I became a reader?
I can remember being a reader from a very young age. It was instilled into my blood. It runs in my veins. My mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-aunt were all readers. My aunt and mother still are. I can remember my father buying me the whole Dr. Suess series, the first book I ever read myself being Green Eggs & Ham. After that, I had to read it to my baby brother every night! Growing up in the same city Dr. Suess was born in, books were always at my finger tips.
My grandparents would take me for the weekends and we'd go shopping. I loved going with them because they'd let me go into Waldensbooks. I would go in there and get lost. I was in my world! The world of books. I knew when I saw and smelled books I was right where I needed to be. And the store wasn't that big, it wasn't like a Barnes and Noble.
Growing up, my bedroom was right across the hall from my parents. Every night my mother would sit up in bed and read. Years before the Kindle, she had a bed lamp that she kept on while she read. She would read authors from Stephen King, to Patricia Cornwell to V.C. Andrews to Lee Child. She gave me her copies of Little House On The Prairie, which I read and loved. I wish I still had those books for my maybe someday daughter. When I grew a little older I thought she was crazy to be reading Stephen King. To this day I haven't touched Stephen King, she is definitely more brave than me.
We went over to the library from time to time. I was bought most of my books but we were lucky because there was one the next street over from us. There is where I discovered the Sabrina The Teenage Witch books! I freaking LOVED that series and owned all the books!
My brother is also a reader. He, like I read Dr. Suess as a kid and a few other books. But what I remember most is when his love for Harry Potter hit. I was only in Fifth grade when the first Harry Potter released, making him in only third grade. So when he was old enough to begin the series, it was awesome! I finally got to share this amazing series with my brother. On summer vacations we would each take up a couch and read Harry Potter. The little shit spoiled the ending of Order of the Phoenix! I was sitting outside and he runs by me and yells what happens... because like my mother, he was a fast reader, he inherited that gene from her and I didn't. So he finished it before I did and spoiled me.
I was a Scholastic Reader for a few summers in a row while I was in elementary school. At the end of the school year I received a zipped bag of books to read over the summer. Baby-Sitters Club, Nancy Drew, I loved those series. Each book I read I received summer reading credit. So instead of having to read school chosen books, I got to read fun books and get credit for it! In middle school I read the Sisterhood of the Traveling pants and many other books like that. A few Sarah Dessen, which I loved as well.
I discovered Nicholas Sparks in high school. The first book I read by him was A Walk To Remember. I loved it and then had to read all his books. There is where I also discovered romance novelist Rachel Gibson. She was my first really sexy writer. She had serious sex scenes and I loved them. I have also read just about all of Sophie Kinsella's books, the Shopaholic Series! LOVED them! A few more authors, Nora Roberts, Susan Donovan and Ceceila Ahern, the author of P.S. I Love You. I was definitely a romance lover.
At the age of nineteen is when I discovered Twilight and read those books. I loved them, I'm not ashamed to say that. I was still young enough to enjoy that series and I did. After that is when I started the Sookie Stackhouse novels, before they became True Blood. I loved the books, didn't care for how it ended or how the TV series ended but I still appreciate the series.
In May of 2012 is when I came across the little book trilogy called Fifty Shades Of Grey. I downloaded the first book to my Kindle Keyboard, which I had bought for myself in July of 2011 because Waldenbooks in our mall closed and Barnes and Noble was thirty minutes away. Anyway, I read the first few chapters and was HOOKED. Then I found out friends of mine had read these books and were just as obsessed as I was. Fifty Shades lead me to The Crossfire Series by Sylvia Day! From there it what stemmed my love for erotica.
Now, I am twenty-eight years old, run my own book blog, read books for reviews, supporting both Indie-Authors and publishing houses and I have edited my fair share of books. Reading has been in my blood from past generations and I intend to keep it that way!
How I became a reader?
I can remember being a reader from a very young age. It was instilled into my blood. It runs in my veins. My mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-aunt were all readers. My aunt and mother still are. I can remember my father buying me the whole Dr. Suess series, the first book I ever read myself being Green Eggs & Ham. After that, I had to read it to my baby brother every night! Growing up in the same city Dr. Suess was born in, books were always at my finger tips.
I couldn't have been older than two!
My grandparents would take me for the weekends and we'd go shopping. I loved going with them because they'd let me go into Waldensbooks. I would go in there and get lost. I was in my world! The world of books. I knew when I saw and smelled books I was right where I needed to be. And the store wasn't that big, it wasn't like a Barnes and Noble.
Growing up, my bedroom was right across the hall from my parents. Every night my mother would sit up in bed and read. Years before the Kindle, she had a bed lamp that she kept on while she read. She would read authors from Stephen King, to Patricia Cornwell to V.C. Andrews to Lee Child. She gave me her copies of Little House On The Prairie, which I read and loved. I wish I still had those books for my maybe someday daughter. When I grew a little older I thought she was crazy to be reading Stephen King. To this day I haven't touched Stephen King, she is definitely more brave than me.
We went over to the library from time to time. I was bought most of my books but we were lucky because there was one the next street over from us. There is where I discovered the Sabrina The Teenage Witch books! I freaking LOVED that series and owned all the books!
My brother is also a reader. He, like I read Dr. Suess as a kid and a few other books. But what I remember most is when his love for Harry Potter hit. I was only in Fifth grade when the first Harry Potter released, making him in only third grade. So when he was old enough to begin the series, it was awesome! I finally got to share this amazing series with my brother. On summer vacations we would each take up a couch and read Harry Potter. The little shit spoiled the ending of Order of the Phoenix! I was sitting outside and he runs by me and yells what happens... because like my mother, he was a fast reader, he inherited that gene from her and I didn't. So he finished it before I did and spoiled me.
I was a Scholastic Reader for a few summers in a row while I was in elementary school. At the end of the school year I received a zipped bag of books to read over the summer. Baby-Sitters Club, Nancy Drew, I loved those series. Each book I read I received summer reading credit. So instead of having to read school chosen books, I got to read fun books and get credit for it! In middle school I read the Sisterhood of the Traveling pants and many other books like that. A few Sarah Dessen, which I loved as well.
I discovered Nicholas Sparks in high school. The first book I read by him was A Walk To Remember. I loved it and then had to read all his books. There is where I also discovered romance novelist Rachel Gibson. She was my first really sexy writer. She had serious sex scenes and I loved them. I have also read just about all of Sophie Kinsella's books, the Shopaholic Series! LOVED them! A few more authors, Nora Roberts, Susan Donovan and Ceceila Ahern, the author of P.S. I Love You. I was definitely a romance lover.
At the age of nineteen is when I discovered Twilight and read those books. I loved them, I'm not ashamed to say that. I was still young enough to enjoy that series and I did. After that is when I started the Sookie Stackhouse novels, before they became True Blood. I loved the books, didn't care for how it ended or how the TV series ended but I still appreciate the series.
In May of 2012 is when I came across the little book trilogy called Fifty Shades Of Grey. I downloaded the first book to my Kindle Keyboard, which I had bought for myself in July of 2011 because Waldenbooks in our mall closed and Barnes and Noble was thirty minutes away. Anyway, I read the first few chapters and was HOOKED. Then I found out friends of mine had read these books and were just as obsessed as I was. Fifty Shades lead me to The Crossfire Series by Sylvia Day! From there it what stemmed my love for erotica.
Now, I am twenty-eight years old, run my own book blog, read books for reviews, supporting both Indie-Authors and publishing houses and I have edited my fair share of books. Reading has been in my blood from past generations and I intend to keep it that way!
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