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There seems to be a bit of a theme going around the bookish blogopshere this past little while. Have you noticed many posts and lists and ponderings about books from our past? To go along with this trend, for this Weekly Geek installment, I'm asking you to think back to the moment when you realized "I am a reader!" The moment you felt that desire to read everything! The moment you knew you were
different than most of those around you and that this reading thing was for real.

I've enjoyed reading for as long as I can remember. I don't have an exact moment I realized I was a reader for life, but I do recall the books I read over time.
When I was around 12, I signed myself up for a book club without my moms permission...I forged her signature and books began arriving at our house. When my mom got the bill I had alot of explaining to do...lol. She of course let me keep the books and paid for them, my mom knew I was a hopeless bookworm. I still have a few of these books. There were titles like Karen Kepplewhite is the World's Best Kisser and The Trouble With Thirteen. These books are so old, they are published in the early to mid 80's and i've had them since then.

When I went out, the sky was pink. Everything smelled springy and fresh. I walked along trying to squelch down my worried feelings, but I couldn't get them out of my mind.

The late high school bus went past just before I reached my corner. It stopped, and Peter James got off. He saw me and waved, so of course I had to walk up to him.
-The Trouble With Thirteen

I remember being very into these YA books. Cutesy, teeny bopper type reads that had me sitting on my front porch on summer afternoons reading. There was no Twilight type YA back then.



Then I remember reading a few books in H.S. that I really enjoyed, English being my favorite class. I'd read Maya Angelou, I really liked her books and her poems moved me. I liked Catcher in the Rye as required reading for school. I was really into reading about Greek Myths like Narcissus and Echo in high school. And I remember being fascinated by Homer's The Odyssey when we read it in class. I also liked Shakespeare, especially Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.

Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then

'tis time to do't.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and

afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our

pow'r to accompt?—Yet who would have thought the old man to

have had so much blood in him?

I became a mom by nineteen, so I didn't have much reading time for a while after that. But once my son was a bit older and on a set schedule, I discovered Stephen King and would read while the baby napped.



I read Nightmares and Dreamscapes then went on to read Salem's Lot and was good and hooked, he's still my favorite author. I read him for a while then started to pick up other authors and genres and began to build my own little library at home.


How about you? How did you get started reading?

Thanks for stopping by everyone, I always enjoy reading your comments. I'll be catching up on my blog visits this weekend and i'm going to a library sale today so hopefully i'll find some good books to bring home :)