I love to read. I started reading when I was four years old, and by the time I was in kindergarten I used to read my teacher's mysteries aloud to her. I still remember her calling me up to her desk during rest hour. She was fascinated.
This had its downside, of course, since most of my lower-grade teachers couldn't be interested. But...
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I love to read. I started reading when I was four years old, and by the time I was in kindergarten I used to read my teacher's mysteries aloud to her. I still remember her calling me up to her desk during rest hour. She was fascinated.
This had its downside, of course, since most of my lower-grade teachers couldn't be interested. But my fourth and my fifth grade teachers cam around, and my sixth grade, finally, when she realized that her favs were any smarter than me.
As I said, there were downsides--I used to read in junior high all through my classes, including the ones like science, where I neededf to pay attention. Finally I got a test from the teacher: Suggest you quit reading novels in my science class. Aaaargh! I was sure I had gotten rid of it but my mother found it, and there was all h--- to pay. No school library, no taking books to school, I guess it lasted till 10th grade. Friends asked me "Why don't you just leave them in your locker?" But I knew, by then, I couldn't. I was compulsive, that's all.
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