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 Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:50 am
It occurred to me today that no one else in my family reads. My mother however, has always encouraged my love of books, and I have a considerable home library now because of her. But I noticed that she doesn't push my little brother to read (he's much more involved in American football and video games), and also teases me about being the smart one with my nose always in a book.
Do your families/friends support your love of reading? Are you the target of for being a "bookworm"? And what is it that got you reading in the first place and keeps you reading now?
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:29 pm
My friends are always reading something, and sometimes we exchange ideas on what to read next. My family, though, doesn't read in the sense of sitting down with a book because they simply don't have the time. They do support my love, though. My mom even said I remind her of Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast, which was the greatest compliment I'd received in awhile. xD
What got me reading in the first place... I would have to say just all of the people who would read to me. I wanted to be like them and read on my own, so I started trying to make sense of my books. One day, all that I had learned made sense, making me so excited that I sprinted with my little Berenstain Bears book right to my mom so I could read to her.
I think it was that excitement at being able to read that made me start loving it. Everything since then has been looked upon as a discovery. The guild really says it all for me: I read, therefore I am.
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Supernatural Manifestation
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:50 pm
My entire family reads. My mother, father, and sister are all bookworms. So obviously they support me. But they never really pushed reading onto me. When I was little I did not care for reading and they were just like, "Whatever. You don't have to read if you don't want to." Which, I'm actually glad they did. If they had tried to push it onto me I probably would have never fallen in love with it. It's much better that I 'found the light' on my own.
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:49 pm
My mother made the statement that I was married to books. I receive a reasonable amount of support from the family for my consuming addiction.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:47 pm
My friends don't; they claim that books steal my soul.
It's become a running joke between us, but they're not thrilled that I ignore them in favour of books.
My mother is neutral about the situation, but my father encourages it.
Although both of them don't approve of some of my book choices.
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:38 pm
Both my parents were big readers, back before one had an eight-to-six job and the other had to care for four daughters. Now that we're all grown up, though, and Dad is looking for another job (not by choice--the business of some sixty-odd years got closed down), I've seen both of them reading more often of late.
As for me and my sisters...we're all big readers. Mom once described us as our "own little bookclub." She also swears that ours was the only house where you could hear a parent screaming at the children to put the books up and go outside and play. 3nodding
And my friends are just as bookworm-ish.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:28 am
I have no idea why I became such a reader--though like Tiggermyk, I do remember being yelled at to get outside and do something (and told pointedly to leave the book in the house).
I'm hoping to encourage my own little book club--the oldest is reading, the middle is learning, and the youngest still likes to look at pictures (and keeps wanting the same truck book over and over and over and over). They do see me reading quite often, and I have books all over the house (though I've had to be careful not to leave the more mature titles where the oldest will pick it up and glance through).
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