When My Love of Reading Started
Current Project: KomaHina Omegaverse
Current Progress: 400 pages (handwritten)
So I’ve been re-reading a lot of my old Goosebumps books, like I mentioned in my previous post. I was thinking back to when I read my very first one.
I was in fourth grade. My school had something called “Silent Sustained Reading”. Basically, you brought your own book to class and read it at a designated time. I had forgotten my book that day, and I thought I was going to get in trouble for not having a book to read.
The boy who sat next to me was absent that day. So I reached into his desk and pulled out whatever was in there. (I put the book back at the end, I promise!) Lo and behold, it was a Goosebumps! Specifically Beware the Snowman.
I was pretty intimidated. I was a big scared cat as a kid, and always thought Goosebumps would be too much for me. But in my little fourth grade mind, I had no choice. It was the scary book, or risk my perfect reputation as the teacher’s pet.
So I started to read. And realized it wasn’t all *that* scary. In fact, I really liked it! I wanted to know what happened, even after reading time was done!
I told my dad all about it, and he was ecstatic that I wanted to read! We went to all kinds of old bookstores, and he got me a ton of Goosebumps! Some of my fondest memories are of reading together with him on the couch in our old house. He even let me have a little spot for my books in his office library!
*sigh* I just love these books so much. I have so many memories attached to them.