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Did any of you have RIF days at school (Reading is Fundamental)? Apologies if it's already been mentioned. |
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My folks gave me a 'Lifetime Subscription' to Readers Digest when I was born. Maybe they knew something...
There were always book in the house, but my parents were occasional readers. I was the one who could be found reclined on the couch, reading (about 2nd grade). |
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Both my parents were English teachers. There have always been books around. I have read books for as long as I can remember. I certainly remember one instance of getting into trouble at school for reading a book when I should have been paying attention to a lesson. That would have been around age 8. (Good grief — 40 years ago!)
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01-11-2013, 10:54 AM | #100 | |
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Like others, I can never remember NOT being a reader; I must have read a very considerable proportion of the books in my local library during my teenage years. Certainly all the SF and pretty much all the mystery sections. I've been reading e-books since about 1986, starting with a Psion 2a "palmtop" for which I wrote my own reading app, and then a whole succession of PDAs. I remember my feeling of utter amazement and joy when I stumbled on PG in the early 1990s.
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I was a child in a war that found its only entertainment in reading books under the candle light.
Bosnia 1992-1995. |
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Sorry you had to experience that! Hope there are no lasting debilitating effects. War is deadly to children and other living things.
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Well, I "earned" my war wound but it was not debilitating. Just nice scares for memory sake. I did more damage to my continually worsening myopia and astigmatism during those candlelit days and during university. |
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