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52. My house had lots of books

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 06:53 AM

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And my mother (and occasionally my father) read to me and encouraged me on reading the words for myself. I still remember about Cinnamon Bear...

By the time I went to kindergarten, I could read well beyond Dick, Jane and Spot.

I was SO bored after my eye operation...

But I made up for it in spades afterwards, and not just reading the libraries' kids' sports novels or the books with a rocket on the spine.

((Yes, I never really got into poetry, but just about everything else in the house was fair game, from excerpts from Chaucer and from Shakespeare's takes on history to my father's accounting workbooks to mythology to annual books on world statistics...))

The one thing it didn't teach me was how to write essays, so I had to take a basic English course when I went to college. At least there was a course covering science fiction...

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