My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.
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By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.
My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.
The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.
I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.