Writer's Block: Forbidden Reading
Oct. 20th, 2008 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I was remarkably lucky.
I started reading before I started walking and my parents encouraged and supported me in reading everything.
My grandmother was a reading teacher at my first elementary school and she would bring home books for me before I started school.
This made a setback though, by the time I started kindergarten I had read almost all of the books in the school library.
I was also reading on an 8th grade level by the time I was in the first grade.
My parents read too me and with me. Robert Asprin, Spider Robinson and Erma Bombeck were often our bed time stories. It was amazing.
I never had to hide anything. I truly feel sorry for kids that have to hide books of any kind from their parents.
I feel even worse for school, communities and nations that forbid books to their children.
I was remarkably lucky.
I started reading before I started walking and my parents encouraged and supported me in reading everything.
My grandmother was a reading teacher at my first elementary school and she would bring home books for me before I started school.
This made a setback though, by the time I started kindergarten I had read almost all of the books in the school library.
I was also reading on an 8th grade level by the time I was in the first grade.
My parents read too me and with me. Robert Asprin, Spider Robinson and Erma Bombeck were often our bed time stories. It was amazing.
I never had to hide anything. I truly feel sorry for kids that have to hide books of any kind from their parents.
I feel even worse for school, communities and nations that forbid books to their children.
