I know I already posted once today but I just couldn’t keep this in!
When I was growing up my mom and I used to read books together. I was into the Nancy Drew and the 3 Investigators books. My mom and I would swap them and keep getting more.
Then one day someone introduced me to the Mary Higgins Clark book ‘Pretend You Don’t See Her’ and I fell in love with the Novel. Before this point I would only read the smaller 150 page books. Now I read a 320 page novel! Wow. It only took me 2 days to read it and I was completly obsorbed into it. I loved that book, in fact I still have it and plan on always keeping it!
This book introduced me to a new world of stories, more mature and exciting stories! I still loved the mysteries, and I went thorugh all of Mary Higgins Clark books first and just kept going. I would start a book after dinner and be closing it up around 3am. I was reading 3-5 books a week and I loved it! Who cared that I had to get up in a couple hours! I just couldn’t put the thing down!
Then time passes and I started learning about responsibility. lol I started learning there were consequences with staying up past 1am reading a book! So I started cutting back my book reading then I stopped. I’m not sure why I stopped all together but I remember making the comment that I couldn’t read because I can’t stop myself!
I still kept a lot of my books but then I started getting the more refrence type books. About my gardening and photography and I still cherish those! I will gather them all together and pick up one book to read about a flower then grab the next book and see what that one says. But I forgot how great novels were.
I have a wonderful friend that loves reading and has gotten me back into the book world. She introduced me to some great websites as GoodReads.com and PaperBackSwap.com I’ve been going through these websites the past week or so and have fallen head over heels in love with books again. I have gotten a ‘to read’ list that is probably a mile long and I keep adding to it! I know now I need to put other things first before I can pick up a book but I also know that I can put it down and read it the next day.
I’m so excited to start reading again and I just wanted to tell everyone that!
Posted by lizaanne42 on June 15, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Reading your blog here brought back memories for me. My mom used to read aloud to my sister and me, even when we were old enough to read ourselves. She read all of the Anne books and the Little House books to us. I loved Nancy Drew & 3 Investigators books, too– then I worked my way to Agatha Christie and up through adult mystery genres. Would you believe that we actually read a Mary Higgins Clark book for my 8th grade Literature class?! I sympathize with losing the pleasures of books to the responsibilities of adulthood. I can’t say that I ever really stopped pleasure reading, but I certainly cut waaay back when I was in college. Also, since I’ve been teaching, I’ve got very little time for reading (well, for reading anything but what I’m grading) during the school year; this summer, I’ve made it my project to read as much as I can and then blog about them. Check it out, if you’d like.
–Lizaanne
http://lizaanne42.wordpress.com/
Posted by Deborah on June 15, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Good for you to make a project like that! I know I’ll be blogging about some of my books and I’ll definitely keep checking back on your blog and see what you’ve been reading.
Thanks for the comment!
Posted by Stormy on June 15, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Once you make reading part of your everyday activities, it’s easy to do it every day without doing it so much that it takes over your responsibilities. It’s still very possible that you’ll stay up WAY to late reading but if you have everything else done for the day…eh, why not?! Lol!
Posted by Deborah on June 16, 2009 at 2:17 pm
lol Yea except I’m REAL cranky when I wake up at 6am the next morning. :P