I didn’t read many books before 7th grade. Before that it was comic books and my parents magazines. Seventh grade really opened up a new world. We had these wonderful anthologies from adult books, plays and poems along with a record that would have a celebrity reading a work of poetry. Since I watched a lot of movies that my folks did I was familiar with some of the authors and actors on the record. This was back in the early 70s btw. So there were brief pieces of stories that would illustrate a point or some sort of literary devise. If I liked a story or author, I could look at the publisher notes and pick out who I wanted to pursue. This started my love of reading. I never went after ap courses because “circumstances” but never quit loving to read. Maybe not being in classes that had to pick apart books was better for me, idk. But that’s how it worked out.
I didn’t read many books before 7th grade. Before that it was comic books and my parents magazines. Seventh grade really opened up a new world. We had these wonderful anthologies from adult books, plays and poems along with a record that would have a celebrity reading a work of poetry. Since I watched a lot of movies that my folks did I was familiar with some of the authors and actors on the record. This was back in the early 70s btw. So there were brief pieces of stories that would illustrate a point or some sort of literary devise. If I liked a story or author, I could look at the publisher notes and pick out who I wanted to pursue. This started my love of reading. I never went after ap courses because “circumstances” but never quit loving to read. Maybe not being in classes that had to pick apart books was better for me, idk. But that’s how it worked out.