The Book That Made Me a Reader
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Dina Nayeri on Behrangi, Golding and Ishiguro
Dina Nayeri
I’ve become a reader three times. The first time, I was barely six and lived in Iran, under the Islamic Republic.
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Jim Shepard on Two Very Different Writers
Jim Shepard
I was the first in my family to go to college, and my father’s not-so-secret plan for getting me there involved A) my getting good grades, and...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Christina Baker Kline on Laura Ingalls Wilder
Christina Baker Kline
I was six years old; we had recently moved to Maine from Tennessee, and my father read it aloud to my sister Cynthia and me, one chapter at a...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Bonnie Nadzam on a Biography of Helen Keller
Bonnie Nadzam
Maybe it’s instructive that I more or less recall the book but not the exact title or author of the book. It was a YA biography of Helen Keller...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Abol Tabol and the Bengali Language
Anuradha Roy
Before I could read, I was read to, and there was only one book that was read aloud in our house. I am four years old. Then five, then six, seven
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Louisa May Alcott and James Joyce
Sara Paretsky
I can’t remember the first books I read, although I do remember the first words I wasn’t able to sound out: “city” and “Penelope
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Nunez
I grew up in colonial Trinidad, my education similar to that of a British public school, excellent, but clearly intended to reinforce the superiority...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On John Lennon
Elizabeth McKenzie
Two of the first books that made me a reader were In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
The Phantom Tollbooth
James Hannaham
When I read The Phantom Tollbooth, at approximately age nine or so, it had some kind of bizarre cathartic effect on me
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On Fun With Dick and Jane and Mary Poppins
Francine Prose
The book that made me a reader was, to be honest, Fun with Dick and Jane. I can’t remember much about it. See Spot run, I guess