And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.
When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.
As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.
I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.
I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.