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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 446367, member: 29&quot;]My parents basically didn&#039;t care what I read as long as I read. We were thar family who ALL read at the dinner table. With the (unwatched) TV on. My grandmothers had both left school at 14, but read voraciously - from womens &quot;papers&quot;, as magazines were known, to Mrs Gaskell. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d read my way through the children&#039;s public library by the time I was about nine, so they let me join the adult section. I still remember the joy of finishing my O levels, hurtling round there and grabbing nine books to devour. We used to travel abroad by car and Ma and I would stuff every corner with readables. Pa once counted fify five books being unearthed when we got to Spain. And oh, the joy when we found the local town library would let us join as temporary readers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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