"When I was in either third or fourth grade, my mom gave me some of her old Nancy Drew books. I was hooked on reading from that day forward.
I made my way through the Baby-sitter’s Club, Christopher Pike, RL Stine, and Sweet Valley High as I made my way through school. I then got really into historical romances (Linda Lael Miller, Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux, etc.).
In college, I read ‘Outer Banks’ by Anne Rivers Siddons, as well as many of Pat Conroy’s books, and became a little obsessed with Low Country writers. Today, I have expanded that list to include Dorothea Benton Frank, Karen White, and Patti Callahan Henry.
After I graduated from college, I discovered Barbara Delinsky, who I think as more in the women’s fiction arena than in the true romance arena. I quickly followed her to find you (Susan Wiggs), Debbie Macomber, Luanne Rice, and Kristin Hannah.
I later spent some time reading a lot of chick lit (the Red Dress Ink books), but I have come around again and am reading everything I can get my hands on by you (Susan Wiggs), Sherryl Woods, Jodi Picoult, and Robyn Carr, as well as my traditional after-college favorites and the Low Country writers listed above.
And that is how I got to reading what I read today…perhaps a bit too long of a story for a comment on a blog!"
So what about you? Are you a big reader? And what made you that way?
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I was reading by age 3. I don't remember not knowing how to read. By five I was going to the library with my mom every week and checking out the maximum number of books allowed (7). I read them within 3 days. I read every piece of juvenile non-fiction in our entire library within one year. Then, I also went with my dad to the used book store by us every month. He would trade in his books, and I would buy more books as did he. I read every Ripley's believe it or not book I could find. By fifth grade I had finished every SE Hinton book. I was also reading everything that my brother had to read for school (he's 3.5 years older). Then I went on a big Steven King and Agatha Christie kick during freshman year. I basically would read anything I could get my hands on. Late high school saw me read everything Kurt Vonnegut wrote within about 6 months. Before I had my son, I was always reading multiple books at a time - usually music history or film history books. Of course, psychology books have always fit in there too.
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