Books #35

[ordinaryjelly]

My mum is a huge reader, always has a book with her. As children we always saw her with a book and that has rubbed off on her children. We now carry books at all times.

That policy of mine has rubbed off on two of my three children, they are never far from a book.

 

[LydiaDeetzHat]

Take a rucksack and fill it with lots of lovely books I like that there is a crochet club too - 2 birds, 1 stone!

emptying out one of my Traders Joes totes especially. If only I could find the other

 

[LydiaDeetzHat]

My mum is a huge reader, always has a book with her. As children we always saw her with a book and that has rubbed off on her children. We now carry books at all times.

That policy of mine has rubbed off on two of my three children, they are never far from a book.

I must be the milkmans... neither of my parents read much

 

[SaintLeo]

My mum is a huge reader, always has a book with her. As children we always saw her with a book and that has rubbed off on her children. We now carry books at all times.

Same! My love of reading comes from my mum, and she definitely passed on some of her childhood favourites to me - Anne of Green Gables, Mallory Towers and later Agatha Christie & Georgette Heyer. She was a primary school teacher and always read Roald Dahl books with her classes and with us too. BFG words like chidlers and snozzcumbers are still used in our family!

 

[CommentBelow]

Thank you. I shall look into these. Though resist purchasing until I make my way through existing tbr reading projects I have going on.

I am definitely stealing ‘reading projects’.

‘I can’t load the dishwasher, I’m working on my reading project’
‘I would love to go to *insert name of place I don’t want to go to... but I’m busy with my reading project’

I am 1 book behind on my Booker Prize challenge - so may actually need to use this reading project excuse.

 

[wishiniwasskinny]

My sister, my mum and I are all big readers. I think they started getting more into it when I started reading more again (I’ve always been a book worm but as I got older it dropped off). My mum joined our local library again after I did a few years ago. We all use Goodreads now. The 3 of us tend to pass books back and forth between us.
My dad is also into reading and a member of the library since he retired. He prefers non-fiction or autobiographies I think.

 

[OwlHen]

I’m a child of 2 readers too! My parents like very different genres but I’m like the bit in the middle of the vent diagram who does all the recommendations.

 

[Thatsnotmyname123]

Neither of my parents read, my mum will on holiday but she would always read to me & my brother before bed. I know parents often do that now but not sure how common that was in the 90’s, but I wonder if that’s how I got into it.

 

[Blueblue123]

I've been into reading since the womb.

My mum and her friends joke that toddler Blueblue123 used to force them to read any book to me whenever they visited, even a French one we randomly had in the house (no one speaks French, me included).

I'm not that close to my dad and he never really spoke about reading specific books, but he's a smart man so I think I got it from him.

 

[ScoutFinch]

Neither of my parents read, my mum will on holiday but she would always read to me & my brother before bed. I know parents often do that now but not sure how common that was in the 90’s, but I wonder if that’s how I got into it.

I loved being read to as a child. I remember working my way through the Narnia books with my dad and begging him for another chapter when I needed to be sleeping

A family favourite was a kids book called ‘Dreadful David’ which is now out of print and cost me a fortune to order for my nephew when he was born

 

[HoGi]

My mum used to have a different book in every room

She would read at few pages on something while cooking, a different book in the lounge and another by her bed.

ETA mum also said she could refuse us toys/sweets etc. but she could never refuse us a book. So I quickly developed book dragon tendencies

 

[veronica71]

My mum used to have a different book in every room

She would read at few pages on something while cooking, a different book in the lounge and another by her bed.

ETA mum also said she could refuse us toys/sweets etc. but she could never refuse us a book. So I quickly developed book dragon tendencies

I say this to my kids!!! They were both started having bedtime stories from about 3 weeks old. They both have bookcases in their room - although my 14 year old son says he's read a book like it's one and done! But my daugther is now really starting to get into read - she struggles with concentration - but after 10 years of sitting with her to get her to sleep she now reads to herself before bed which is just amazing in all ways.

I was known as the book lady as a teen in my village for all the books I used to buy at village fetes

 

[Chocolategoggler]

Same! My love of reading comes from my mum, and she definitely passed on some of her childhood favourites to me - Anne of Green Gables, Mallory Towers and later Agatha Christie & Georgette Heyer. She was a primary school teacher and always read Roald Dahl books with her classes and with us too. BFG words like chidlers and snozzcumbers are still used in our family!

I used to worship at the feet of my teacher Miss Trazi, who read us the Moomin Troll series as a child.

 

[AllieBee]

I've always always loved reading. I can remember sitting on my grandads knee being read a story when I was about 2, and I can still picture that book even now. I went to the library every week, read all the time, I think as a young mum and when the kids were small it tailed off and I switched from books to those trashy magazines (don't judge) bit i guess it was still reading! I can't go to sleep without reading, even if it's a late night I will still read a page or two.

 

[ordinaryjelly]

I read to my children all the time when they were small. Some of my fondest memories are of the bringing me their well read, falling apart copies of their books and then all clambering to sit on my lap in prime position.

I also had the policy of never saying no to a book. If they asked for candy I used to say to them that candy bar will be gone in a few minutes but if you get a book instead you can can keep it forever. They chose a book 99.9% if the time. My little anomaly is my middle child who has his head in footballing clouds.

 

[Boogs]

I’m not really sure where I got my love of reading from as I’m the only reader in my family and I didn’t have bedtime stories. I could read before I started school and have memories of reading out the horses from the racing pages for my nan and her friends
Reading was my sanctuary in a childhood with lots of trauma. It was my escape and I used to get told off for reading too much.

 

[anniemouse]

I remember the book magazine thing we used to get home from school and I’d get to pick a book from it, then you filled in the wee form, paid and it came a while later.

 

[wishiniwasskinny]

I’m not really sure where I got my love of reading from as I’m the only reader in my family and I didn’t have bedtime stories. I could read before I started school and have memories of reading out the horses from the racing pages for my nan and her friends
Reading was my sanctuary in a childhood with lots of trauma. It was my escape and I used to get told off for reading too much.

I would stay up past bedtime reading under the covers and also read under the desk in primary school and get told off

I always remember my mum taking us to the library after school and loving picking out the books I wanted to read.

It’s such a shame now that children have the distraction of phones and the internet, when they should be learning to focus and read a book.

 

[wishiniwasskinny]

I remember the book magazine thing we used to get home from school and I’d get to pick a book from it, then you filled in the wee form, paid and it came a while later.

Did anyone have the mobile library? I remember it was always a big day in primary school when the mobile library would come to school and you’d get to go on board and read the books etc

 

[chickhicks86]

I remember the book magazine thing we used to get home from school and I’d get to pick a book from it, then you filled in the wee form, paid and it came a while later.

This was the best day ever when you got one of these home in your bag. Poring over the form was almost as good as an actual book!