Do You Have Fond Memories of Reading Books?

Question

I do. Even though I don't read much anymore (I'm trying to read more though), I remember reading about teenage ghosts and the sky raining food. These I did on my couch when golden sunlight seeped through my windows as well as during reading class in school.

This was all during a time when computers weren't such a huge factor in my life. Books were the best way to gain information.

You can share some experiences if you'd like. Thanks.

Answer 1

I remember when I had just learned to read. I had such a joy and delight in reading books on my own, especially once I got to chapter books. I would cuddle up on my couch, and enjoy just reading about adventures. I remember my first book in which one of the characters died. I was so into the book, and was such friends with the characters, that when one of the good ones died, I could feel tears coming leaking out of my eyes and rolling down my cheeks. I loved to read!

Answer 2

Yes... loads. It's funny, when you try to think of good memories, you never can remember the really good ones.

I read The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova on a train while travelling nearly 3000 kilometres in India over a period of two days.. It's funny because everytime I open that morbid vampire novel, I think of those paddy and corn fields, bridges, lakes, the small village railway stations and the hot 'bondas' we ate for breakfast.

I am never allowed to read in bed later than 10 pm, and I remember flouting this rule frequently as a kid, letting my parents think I was asleep when I was actually burrowing into a novel. In fact, I was so deep into Phantoms by Dean Koontz last night, that I read on until 1 am, breaking the rule for the first time since I was twelve.

Other fond memories are random ones... reading a book simultaneously with my cousin and becoming exasperated at her slow reading pace, reading Harry Potter for the first time by the gentle light at dawn while sitting on the front doorstep and breathing in the fresh morning air and listening to the first chirping of the birds... Oh, bliss!

Answer 3

Reading to me is like comfort food. I have so many good memories from reading great stories. I love to curl up in a warm blanket and read for hours. It is like time does not exist and if I am not careful I will read straight through the night. I used to do that all the time as I am a mother now I don't do it as much as I would collapse from exhaustion the next day running after little people but I do read as much as I can. I find it sad that people don't read much anymore and sit potatoing in front of the couch. Not me. And not my kids if I have anything to do about it!

Answer 4

Growing up as an only child, made books special to me. They were my best. unconditional friends. I started reading when I was five and my mother gave me an international fairytale collection. I think that helped me form a cosmopolitan way of seeing the world and its inhabitants. Stories from Alaska to China, India to Norway, they were all so similar in the end.... and humans are too, no matter where we all come from. The same things move our emotions and stir our mind and can be found in Tolstoy and Dickens, in Garcia Marquez and Steinbeck.
I must confess, I don't read so much anymore as I used to. Life got in the way, family and work. And for me my laptop, also became a huge factor in my life.... but mostly because now I use it not to read... but to write. I am trying to finish two books, written in two different languages. One is a science fiction book and the other a thriller drama. So as you see... all those books I have read and that form a part of me, they have condensed themselves into something...and that cumulus of feelings and knowledge wants to be projected into a small fictional world that hopefully someday will be a temporary home for readers from all the world.

Answer 5

Yes, I certainly have. I've been reading ever since I was a kid. Actually, I grew up surrounded by books. I still recall the first time I read ''Anne Of Green Gabels'' or ''Little Women.'' A whole new world opened up for me. I remember curling up on the sofa and reading, then pausing to close my eyes and trying to picture myself in the beautiful scenery described.

Unfortunately when a war started in my country, I didn't get much chance to read. I was only 10 when it all began but trust me, I still recall the joy when I would come across a book on rare occasions. Reading helped me escape the reality and forget about the sound of bomb shelling. I would read for hours with candle-light only and even though it was dark and cold, those were the best times of my ruined childhood.

Damn, now you have me all mushy and teary here.

Answer 6

Roald Dahl have been given me reading on my very own. i grow to be presented to his works by skill of accepted college the place i first examine 'James and the super Peach', yet in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it quite is a great tale, it grow to be no longer my primary. In my humble opinion, i could say that 'Danny the Champion of the international' is his ultimate artwork. After this, I examine a e book called 'Z for Zacharia' by skill of Robert C. O'Brien. It grow to be very shifting, and as I remember had something to do with an atomic conflict or an atomic bomb. Coming suited as much as date nonetheless, i won't locate to any extent further effective examine than Terry Pratchett.

Answer 7

Yes, throughout my life, reading has been my principal form of entertainment. I particularly enjoy finding an author and reading everything I can lay my hands on. (I am presently reading the novels of Anthony Trollope) Or exploring a genre of fiction exhaustively. (As I have done with both science fiction and American dectective stories) For non-fiction I enjoy particularly social history and biography. (I am reading a new biography of Bette Davis, my favorite actress of American film's classic era).

I have particularly happy memories of reading something engaging whilst recovering from an accident or illness. Way back when it first came out, I read Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes while recouping from mono in my early college years.

Answer 8

As a child I was hospitalized ALOT, and didn't have many friends or the opportunity to socialize, so books became my friends. I lived in the book when I read, and still do. I still read at least 1 book a week, usually more-and encourage my daughter to do the same.

Answer 9

I used to have this big, overstuffed brown armchair in my room as a youngster. I think I was about 11 or 12 when my mom threw it out. I was devastated. I used to curl up in it and it felt like I was being hugged. That and any good book was terrific! The bean bag I had asked her for just wasn´t the same. :(

Answer 10

I've been reading adult level books since age 4 (I'm 54 now) and have a personal library of about 3,000+ books, so yes, I have many memories, and create more every time I read.