When did your addiction start?

[Kelsey]

Mine started in the sixth grade.

In first and second grade, I wasn't advanced in reading as I should of been, so I was put in a special class. I didn't really read much in 3rd and 4th grade, but had the same reading ability as everybody else, now. Then in fifth grade, I began reading. More then some people. But in sixth grade I became friends with a HUGE bookworm. Seriously, reading 1-3 books a day, everyday. Even on school days. Now that's nuts. So then, yes, I started getting competitive (yes, I have a bit of competitiveness in me). And I started reading A LOT! But then during the spring of sixth grade, I think, is when I discovered my addiction to YA books. It started with when my mom bought me the first few books in the Princess Diaries Series, then I read Keeping The Moon by Sarah Dessen, then more Meg Cabot, and then it led from there. I've been reading YA ever since.

Now, what's your story?

[thefoxreads]

oh man, i don't even know. i know that i didn't love reading when i was in first and second grade, but i did like it. as far as i remember, it also really started around 6th grade. i had like a really high reading level in 6th grade, but that was based on that stupid reading level test that everyone had to take. lol and then it all just kind of fell into place and my addiction began and still is. lol

[Just Listen]

I think that I read heaps before, but I really started reading after Twilight. I don't know why, I just did. :D

[Carol(ina)]

I started my addiction when I learned how to read ( I was 3). My addiction went away when I moved to Texas for about 1 year but then out of the blog it came back, stronger than ever.

[Liv]

Yeah, it really all started when I learned to read. I grew up on Nancy Drew, Paddington, Henry and Mudge, The Box Car Children, etc. I've always been a big reader which is good, right? I think the thing that really threw me into the world of YA was Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series. I'm not a huge fan of it or anything, but those were the books that really showed me that there was a whole genre of books out there that were written specifically for people my age.

[zoealea]

Well, I started reading Nancy Drew in third grade, and then went through the whole "I'm only going to read for school" stage. And towards the middle of sixth grade I started reading A LOT. And from then on I kind of gained two books shelves in nine months, and hit the reading and writing obsession hard. Now I kind of annoy people because I like books so much...but hey...its better than some other things I could be liking (that wasn't meant to sound perverted).

[Vanessa]

I didn't really read up until the 8th grade when I started reading the Georgia Nicolson series. However I was just reading that series and nothing more. Then I went to the bookstore for my dad and I got Just Listen, Haters, and The Boyfriend List and The Boy Book and read it the summer after 8th grade. From then on I became a total book junkie. In 9th grade I always read in class. Mostly in English class (where I had a pushover teacher), I read every day in that class. I finished some books in one sitting. I just couldn't stop reading. The summer was the same after 9th grade. It's much harder to read now that I am in the 10th grade, I don't have any classes for free time and we read a lot of books in English class, so I can't read MY stuff. Hopefully I can soon.

:)

[Neveen]

I remember it as it was yesterday; I was 4 and started to read and my dad bought me a graphic magazien and since then I can't stop reading.

[Reader Rabbit]

I think it was when I was in grade 1.
That was when we were FINALLY allowed to read novels at my school. (They were scared they'd be too advanced for us.)

Except they weren't.

As soon as I got my hands on a Pony Pals book...I was a goner.

And I still am ;)

I miss the good ol' days. When I actually had time to read every single book I wanted. I used to rack up 10 a day on weekends :(

And now...I'll be lucky if I have an hour or so a week and read 2 books.

[bunchesnbarrels]

hahaha!!! The Pony Pals!!! i totally forgot about them. wow. i think i read all of them.

Reader Rabbit said:

I think it was when I was in grade 1.
That was when we were FINALLY allowed to read novels at my school. (They were scared they'd be too advanced for us.)

Except they weren't.

As soon as I got my hands on a Pony Pals book...I was a goner.

And I still am ;)

I miss the good ol' days. When I actually had time to read every single book I wanted. I used to rack up 10 a day on weekends :(

And now...I'll be lucky if I have an hour or so a week and read 2 books.

[bunchesnbarrels]

Well I've loved reading my entire life. i remember when i was 3 and my dad taught me the the alphabet and small words... you know on those magnetic chalkboards that came with the magnetic letters that everyone has on their refridgerators now. When i was too young to read books myself I always wanted my parents to read to me. I was obssessed then. By kindergarten, I did go to a public school, I knew all the letters and could read better than most five year olds. My first grade teacher cinched it with Clifford books. LOL. I still think they are cute 12 years later. I was in the advanced reading group in second grade. I was excited to sit at the big round table. In third grade, my teacher was very strict. I didn't like her at all. And while I had to memorize my multiplication tables over the summer (i was great at multiplication through 11 by fourth grade) the one thing she said stuck with me, and to this day I still will not use the word "nice" as a descriptive word in my writing. *shudders at the thought* In second grade we took a field trip to the library down the street from the school and I got my first library card. Every summer after that was spent on the Summer Reading Program. I think books may have been glued to my hand ever since. I can't tell you how many books I've read. It has been hundreds. And I know this is the one thing I will never regret. I glare at people who don't know how to read... No I don't throw books at them!! That would hurt the books! And my habitual reading has given me quite an extensive vocabulary which is very helpful in a debate with a stupid person.