I started reading at the age of 6, but my interest in literature started before I could read. My grandmother had a storage room full of all sorts of antiques. She collected various items from old lamps and sofas to toys and clothes. But my interest seemed to lie in the books. She would take one from the room and read me a book from her youth and I would sit and listen attentively. Sometimes I would even sneak into the forbidden room to take a book for myself, but I couldn't actually read it. I would sit and glance over the pages of endless words, and I would make up my own stories. I started school about a year and a half later, and I was quickly able to correlate letters with letters. It didn't take long until I began correlating letters with words and words with sound, and sounds with the words on a page. And so, by the age of 6 I had been able to read simple sentences.
