Comments on: Raised to Read

By: estellasrevenge

estellasrevenge — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:05:01 +0000

Yayyyy for your essay in Bibliobuffet!!! I loved it.

By: Jeanie

Jeanie — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:55:01 +0000

I’m much the same as you, with books taking an equal place in my childhood world as Barbie and the stuffies. To this day, I multitask, book in hand! I really loved the excerpt. That’s lovely. And now, off to check your essay!

By: Litlove

Litlove — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:41:25 +0000

I will go and read the whole article!

I do come from a family of readers. Apparently my grandmother used to earn extra money as a girl doing a little light cleaning and was to be found dusting in very desultory fashion as she read with a book in the other hand. I shudder to think what my son will say of me in years to come!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:32:45 +0000

I love that description – it sounds a bit like me! \

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:38:59 +0000

Oh, what a lovely article (and post)!

My mom tells me that her mother’s love of reading drove her crazy when she was a kid. There she’d be (my grandmother, that is) with her nose deep in a book, surrounded by unwashed dishes, dirty floors, wailing children, etc. But my mom is a big reader too, and my kids seem to be headed in the same direction. Must be genetic.

By: ravenous reader

ravenous reader — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:50:19 +0000

Joan – Thanks so much for the kind words! Reading and writing have always gone together for me -one feed on the other

Ann – you are so right to pay tribute to your mom. Instilling a love of reading in one’s own children is quite an accomplishment. Intsilling it in other children is even more spectacular. Good for her

By: Ann Darnton

Ann Darnton — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:18:35 +0000

I’m off to read your article in a moment, but I just want to take time to pay tribute to my mother who was a reader and raised a reader. Or perhaps it should be to the teacher of my mother’s small village school. There were just twelve pupils there between the ages of five and fourteen, all of whom would leave school at fourteen and either go onto the land or into service, but she didn’t see why they shouldn’t take a knowledge of English Literature with them. So, every afternoon she read the great Classics to them, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot. She instilled a life long love of books in my mother and she passed it on to me. That is a great teacher.

By: jzr

jzr — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:04:48 +0000

Becca, I just read your article and it is beautifully written. I know you are a bookaholic, but please keep on writing, too. I want to read your books!!!