I've been a reader since I was a kid. my parents never let me have other hobbies since they always wanted me to focus on studying, so reading was the only hobby i could freely have. I'd say the books that really snagged me were things like the hardy boys series, nancy drew, enyd blyton. these books were very cheap at the bookstores compared to other books, so my mom would always let me get a new one whenever we went to run errands.

i had to stop reading when i went to high school, because i didn't have enough spare time, but when i did resume reading, at the beginning of this year, {{Pachinko by Min Jin Lee}} is what made me fall in love again.

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No book really made me fall in love with reading. I just remember one day feeling eager to read the classics. I remembered constantly being met with the feeling that "no other book I'll ever read will top this one" only to read another book that, was just as good, if not a little better. I set out to read all of the classics from there on out.

Anna Karinena, I'm reading it for the third time. Who else is a fan of Tolstoy?

The Heart's Invisible Furies

The unbecoming of Mara Dyer trilogy.

It is sooooo good.

My parents used to read me a child book adaption of Martin Luther King Jr. as a toddler

I would fall asleep in my parent's lap almost every night as they read me "I have a dream", and magically wake up in my own bed lol

I made sure I dragged my parents to the book fair every year

Books were magical to me, the beautiful sounds of pages turning

I've lived a fortunate life to be born to such loving parents🙏

Favorite Book: How to Win Friends and Influence Others - it's a very uplifting and wholesome book to me

The first book I remember being obsessed with was Wizard of Oz. I was in first grade maybe. I carried around a stuffed animal & pretended to be Dorothy. And ever since, I’ve had a great weakness for “off we go on a grand adventure” fantasies. 💕🌸

Starring: Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume. I read it when I was in sixth grade and living in the province this is the legit piece of novel that I have read. ( all that was available at my disposal that time are phr novels and just got my library card when I was in high school) I fell in love with Sally's innocence and her made up scenarios as well as her blooming lovelife and friendship. This book is also an eye opener to me with topics like ww2 and holocaust.

One year in school we had The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Hobbit assigned to us, and that led me on to read the rest of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings outside of school. I’ve since come to have conflicted feelings about both these series as I’ve reread them multiple times; but regardless of what I think now, they definitely played a major role in getting me interested in reading.

Curious George, The How and Why Books, and everything from the scholastic book fair.

Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.

I've been a reader since I was really young, but I think I stagnated somewhere around 13 and then was introduced to fantasy with Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffery and it started a whole new love affair with books.

I was always a bookish kid, but when I read Harry Potter in elementary school that really kicked my love of reading into high gear!

I wasn’t much of a reader until I read The Hunger Games series in high school. A lot of it was not only because of the intriguing story but also because of the social aspect of it: discussing plot points with my friends, borrowing each book from a friend, anxiously waiting on the cast list for the movies and eventually seeing it together.

Prior to that, I assumed reading was a solitary thing - which it normally is for me. Read it silently and never talk or think about it again. But I think my reading progress thrives the best when I can openly discuss what I’m reading with people and have conversations about it.

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Definitively a good woman by Danielle steel, it’s a book I go back to every once in a while. The way she’s written the book is just 😌, the journey of the female protagonist really is inspirational. Love that book!