In grade school, I read age-appropriate fare from whatever was in the library. Then in sixth grade, I got the Lord of the Rings boxed set from Scholastic. Came home, started reading the Hobbit, and read straight through the entire thing in one sitting. I remember my dad coming into the living room and turning on the lamp. So intensely was I reading, I didn't realize it had grown dark.
From there, I grabbed things like Dracula, Frankenstein, Call of the Wild, Outsiders, etc. Before the end of the year, I used paperboy money (ha! That was a thing before people flung them out of moving vans) to buy practically half the list from the little pamphlet they had so I'd have things to read over the summer.
Seriously never read so much in my life. I really wish I had that kind of time to read as an adult.
He said.
On literally his first day of summer vacation after finals.
Look, Reddit can be interesting, too! I know, I know. I can read at work as well. It's like 80% monitoring/downtime. But the last book I read there was Wicked, and . . . seriously, it features Tiger AIDS after a bestial sexual assault. WTF, Gregory McGuire?! People are giving that book to their kids after the movie came out. Do not recommend doing that.
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