8/9/2023 Question of the day

[petrea_mitchell]

Book Lovers Day: Do you love books? Have you always been a reader? Did your parents read to you when you were young? What were some of your favourite books or authors as a child? How has your taste in books evolved over time?

My parents initially taught me to read, but they also taught me how to use the pronunciation key in the dictionary, and I was really impatient, so I started using that rather than wait for the next reading session and really took off at that point.

I got into science fiction and fantasy very early with Space Cat, Narnia, and Doctor Who novelizations. But the first specific favorite author I remember having was Erma Bombeck. I found her because her column ran alongside the comics in my local paper. So the first book for adults I ever read, when I was nine, was The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank. Of course the life of a housewife with three kids was pretty alien to me at the time.