The Joy of Reading
I've always been a reader from around 6 years old, finding immersion in other times and lives and worlds such wonderful adventures out of my own reality and whatever its limitations and frustrations. I devoured Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House books,' and read 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND' and '...THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS' and all the Pooh books over and over again. Over the course of childhood I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories, and Nancy Drew, and authors like H. Ryder Haggard--'KING... Sign in to see full entry.