Reply #16: Congrats! I have nurtured a reading friendly household, too! [View All]

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My 12 year old stepdaugher HATED reading when I came into her life. She was just turning 7, and would cry if she had to read for school. I took her to get her very first library card, and found a book series to get her hooked on reading.. and she hasn't looked back since. It's an enormous sense of pride to see the library ladies smile at her when she brings up a stack of books to check out on her card... Sometimes I have to force her to go outside and be active, otherwise she'd be in the house with her nose in a book all day!

My other stepdaughter is a voracious reader, when she has time. She works at Barnes & Noble. I do hope they will pass on our love of reading and books to their children, when the time comes.

I spent every extra moment at school in the school library as a volunteer worker.. I even donated several books from my own collection when I was in elementary school, to the library, so other kids could enjoy them, too. I can't imagine life without my books, or magazines, or newspapers... TV? I can take it or leave it.