[Poll] As a child... were you? - Page 5

Hamlet53 · 11-10-2014, 06:27 PM

I also read in classrooms in public school when I was not supposed to be doing so. Read during lunch break as well.

Apache · 11-10-2014, 07:15 PM

I would rush to my next class so I could read a few pages before the class started.
Apache

voracious71 · 11-10-2014, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Ravensknight

what about an option for parents who ENCOURAGED reading? My mother read to me every day after school and then when I discovered the library, my dad made sure to take us there on the weekends...

Yes, this. Although, they didn't like me reading without proper lighting because of eye strain. My parents are both avid readers as well.

Xanthe · 11-10-2014, 08:54 PM

I always had a paperback in my pocketbook, once I started to carry one, which was probably about age 12.

When I picked up the kidlets today, there was a sign by the school that their book fair starts tomorrow, and I wanted to be able to go and buy some books - lol.

crich70 · 11-11-2014, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Xanthe

I always had a paperback in my pocketbook, once I started to carry one, which was probably about age 12.

When I picked up the kidlets today, there was a sign by the school that their book fair starts tomorrow, and I wanted to be able to go and buy some books - lol.

I remember some book fairs. Couldn't usually buy anything back then.

Then there was the flyer that the teacher would pass out with a selection of books that the student could purchase. I still have my copy of "Hound of the Baskervilles" somewhere around here. I must have been somewhere around 9 yrs old when I got it because I read it during a week long visit with my paternal grandmother.

Xanthe · 11-11-2014, 04:13 AM

I remember there was this one book that I got through Scholastic about a family that moved to San Francisco right before the 1906 earthquake. I wish I could remember the title and the author. The main character was a young boy, and the book was fascinating, depicting the wonders of the city and its cultures through a child's eye. IIRC, he befriended a wealthy woman who lived in a mansion filled with valuable objets d'art and which had a grand library with thousands of books. I really enjoyed the book up until the point where to create a fire break, the fire department started blowing up the millionaires' mansions, and of course, that woman's mansion was one of those destroyed. Now I'm a person who will re-read favorite books over and over again, and I really liked that book, but the thought of that library being destroyed deliberately made me sick, and I could never bring myself to read that book again.

Sweetpea · 11-11-2014, 05:49 AM

I always read. Under the cover with a flashlight (till 03:00 or even later because I had to finish that book!), while the rest of the family was watching TV (that's when my parents said I read too much :P I never wanted to come down for the evening tea...), on holiday, in the car, in short, everywhere I could.

I went to the libraries every saturday, first in our own village, and later (somewhere after I turned 12 or so) to the big one in town (and I loved that library!, it was a 5-10km biking trip, but still I went every week, even if my brother didn't go, because it was huge, so many new books waiting for me...)

Ripplinger · 11-11-2014, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by crich70

I remember some book fairs. Couldn't usually buy anything back then.

Then there was the flyer that the teacher would pass out with a selection of books that the student could purchase. I still have my copy of "Hound of the Baskervilles" somewhere around here. I must have been somewhere around 9 yrs old when I got it because I read it during a week long visit with my paternal grandmother.

Our schools had yearly book fairs where I could buy a few books usually, money was usually tight for us. One year I wanted an Alfred Hitchcock book but we couldn't manage it. My older cousin and her boyfriend was with us and she said to go ask Marshall... being too sweet of a guy, he actually did buy it for me. I still have that book because I thought it was so incredibly nice of him.

eschwartz · 11-11-2014, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Xanthe

I remember there was this one book that I got through Scholastic about a family that moved to San Francisco right before the 1906 earthquake. I wish I could remember the title and the author. The main character was a young boy, and the book was fascinating, depicting the wonders of the city and its cultures through a child's eye. IIRC, he befriended a wealthy woman who lived in a mansion filled with valuable objets d'art and which had a grand library with thousands of books. I really enjoyed the book up until the point where to create a fire break, the fire department started blowing up the millionaires' mansions, and of course, that woman's mansion was one of those destroyed. Now I'm a person who will re-read favorite books over and over again, and I really liked that book, but the thought of that library being destroyed deliberately made me sick, and I could never bring myself to read that book again.

So the book fulfilled its purpose?

twowheels · 11-11-2014, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Katsunami

(Or even, are too lazy to go to the library and borrow books there, for the extreme sum of €0.2 a piece or so.)

Wait... did I read that correctly? They charge you to check out books where you live? Even in <most of> America where people scream SOCIALISM!!!! every time you even hint at a public utility we don't pay for library checkouts at time of use.

Katsunami · 11-11-2014, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by twowheels

Wait... did I read that correctly? They charge you to check out books where you live? Even in <most of> America where people scream SOCIALISM!!!! every time you even hint at a public utility we don't pay for library checkouts at time of use.

Yes. After switching to English reading in 1998, I've not visited a library in the Netherlands, but I imagine it is still the same.

edit: I've looked it up for you. See the attachment. It got worse: now you don't only pay for borrowing the books, you'll need to have a subscription as well, costing at least €22.

Basically, there are three subscriptions: Basic, Comfort and Royal. With a higher subscription, you'll be able to loan more, for a longer time, and/or pay less (or sometimes nothing).

twowheels · 11-11-2014, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Yes. After switching to English reading in 1998, I've not visited a library in the Netherlands, but I imagine it is still the same.

edit: I've looked it up for you. See the attachment. It got worse: now you don't only pay for borrowing the books, you'll need to have a subscription as well, costing at least €22.

Basically, there are three subscriptions: Basic, Comfort and Royal. With a higher subscription, you'll be able to loan more, for a longer time, and/or pay less (or sometimes nothing).

Wow... interesting. I would have expected the Netherlands to be much more 'free' than that. I can understand charging for music and movies (assuming they're not educational), but to charge for checking out books is shocking to me, even if only 15 euro cents. At least the annual fee is waived for children! What's the difference between the three levels? The number of books you can check out? How long? The collections you can use?

You learn new stuff every day.

Red Falcon · 11-11-2014, 08:03 PM

My mom was not a reader at all.When my brother and I were kids we had to take a 2 hour round trip every other week for my medical treatments.My mom had to find a way to keep us occupied so she gave us books to read.I remember devouring the Encyclopedia Brown's and Hardy Boy's.When I discovered through the school librarian Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling and others I was hooked on reading for life.

Prestidigitweeze · 11-11-2014, 11:54 PM

Here's the missing option I'd have checked:

My parents approved of my crazy addiction to books.

Our family consisted entirely of bibliophagists and the evidence strained our bookshelves. An English and music teacher in public high schools, my mother favored the Canon from Chaucer to Robinson Jeffers. My father preferred experimental and contemporary fiction and often read crime and spy novels as well. I didn't appreciate his taste until the age of fourteen, when I realized he was responsible for our books by Genet, John Dos Passos, Faulkner, Blaise Cendrars, J. P. Donleavy, John Rechy and Raymond Chandler. My mother considered the noir novels he left in the bathroom to be trash. I believed her until the day I actually read one.

Since my brothers and sister were much older than I and had already left the house when I was young, it isn't clear which books on the shelves used to be theirs. Our textbook on clinical psychology had to have been my sister's; one or both of my brothers must have been responsible for the stack of vintage science fiction paperbacks in our den (one of which was an Ace double by Philip K. Dick). I used to enjoy reading interviews with schizophrenics in my sister's textbook because the interviewees seemed involuntarily creative.

It was only when I stayed up after midnight that my mother sometimes appeared in my doorway to insist that I switch off the gooseneck lamp attached to my headboard. But even then, she worried about my insomnia and not my reading.

crich70 · 11-12-2014, 03:13 AM

When I was in college I took a good number of paperbacks with me and the mother of the family I stayed with (family friends) for a time worried that I was spending too much time reading. I assured her I was fine but I don't think she believed me. What can I say, those who don't read a lot can't quite understand the attraction I don't think.

View Poll Results: Did you have to hide your reading?
Set 1: My parents felt I read too much	65	38.69%
Set 1: My parents had to nag me to read	4	2.38%
Set 1: My parents didn't have an opinion about my reading	68	40.48%
Set 2: I hid under the covers with a flashlight	91	54.17%
Set 2: No way, I didn't read in bed!	9	5.36%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 168. You may not vote on this poll

11-11-2014, 11:54 PM	#74
Prestidigitweeze Fledgling Demagogue Posts: 2,384 Karma: 31132263 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: White Plains Device: Clara HD; Oasis 2; Aura HD; iPad Air; PRS-350; Galaxy S7.	Here's the missing option I'd have checked: My parents approved of my crazy addiction to books. Our family consisted entirely of bibliophagists and the evidence strained our bookshelves. An English and music teacher in public high schools, my mother favored the Canon from Chaucer to Robinson Jeffers. My father preferred experimental and contemporary fiction and often read crime and spy novels as well. I didn't appreciate his taste until the age of fourteen, when I realized he was responsible for our books by Genet, John Dos Passos, Faulkner, Blaise Cendrars, J. P. Donleavy, John Rechy and Raymond Chandler. My mother considered the noir novels he left in the bathroom to be trash. I believed her until the day I actually read one. Since my brothers and sister were much older than I and had already left the house when I was young, it isn't clear which books on the shelves used to be theirs. Our textbook on clinical psychology had to have been my sister's; one or both of my brothers must have been responsible for the stack of vintage science fiction paperbacks in our den (one of which was an Ace double by Philip K. Dick). I used to enjoy reading interviews with schizophrenics in my sister's textbook because the interviewees seemed involuntarily creative. It was only when I stayed up after midnight that my mother sometimes appeared in my doorway to insist that I switch off the gooseneck lamp attached to my headboard. But even then, she worried about my insomnia and not my reading. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 11-12-2014 at 01:11 AM.

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Hamlet53 Nameless Being	I also read in classrooms in public school when I was not supposed to be doing so. Read during lunch break as well.

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Xanthe Plan B Is Now In Force Posts: 1,894 Karma: 8086979 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Surebleak Device: Aluratek,Sony 350/T1,Pandigital,eBM 911,Nook HD/HD+,Fire HDX 7/8.9,PW2	I always had a paperback in my pocketbook, once I started to carry one, which was probably about age 12. When I picked up the kidlets today, there was a sign by the school that their book fair starts tomorrow, and I wanted to be able to go and buy some books - lol.

11-11-2014, 04:13 AM	#66
Xanthe Plan B Is Now In Force Posts: 1,894 Karma: 8086979 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Surebleak Device: Aluratek,Sony 350/T1,Pandigital,eBM 911,Nook HD/HD+,Fire HDX 7/8.9,PW2	I remember there was this one book that I got through Scholastic about a family that moved to San Francisco right before the 1906 earthquake. I wish I could remember the title and the author. The main character was a young boy, and the book was fascinating, depicting the wonders of the city and its cultures through a child's eye. IIRC, he befriended a wealthy woman who lived in a mansion filled with valuable objets d'art and which had a grand library with thousands of books. I really enjoyed the book up until the point where to create a fire break, the fire department started blowing up the millionaires' mansions, and of course, that woman's mansion was one of those destroyed. Now I'm a person who will re-read favorite books over and over again, and I really liked that book, but the thought of that library being destroyed deliberately made me sick, and I could never bring myself to read that book again.

11-11-2014, 05:49 AM	#67
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	I always read. Under the cover with a flashlight (till 03:00 or even later because I had to finish that book!), while the rest of the family was watching TV (that's when my parents said I read too much :P I never wanted to come down for the evening tea...), on holiday, in the car, in short, everywhere I could. I went to the libraries every saturday, first in our own village, and later (somewhere after I turned 12 or so) to the big one in town (and I loved that library!, it was a 5-10km biking trip, but still I went every week, even if my brother didn't go, because it was huge, so many new books waiting for me...)

11-11-2014, 08:03 PM	#73
Red Falcon Addict Posts: 281 Karma: 1593188 Join Date: May 2012 Device: Kindle Keyboard	My mom was not a reader at all.When my brother and I were kids we had to take a 2 hour round trip every other week for my medical treatments.My mom had to find a way to keep us occupied so she gave us books to read.I remember devouring the Encyclopedia Brown's and Hardy Boy's.When I discovered through the school librarian Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling and others I was hooked on reading for life.

11-12-2014, 03:13 AM	#75
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	When I was in college I took a good number of paperbacks with me and the mother of the family I stayed with (family friends) for a time worried that I was spending too much time reading. I assured her I was fine but I don't think she believed me. What can I say, those who don't read a lot can't quite understand the attraction I don't think.