Was there a book you remember reading that made you the bookworm that you are now? I have loved reading for as long as I can remember. But I remember that reading The Magic Faraway Tree was what cemented my love for reading. I read that book so many times that I can still remember parts of the book and the illustrations even though I haven’t looked at the book in years.
I remember my parents taking all 5 of us sisters to the library every Saturday morning and me basically just spending hours there reading and finding new books to fall in love with. I found so many of my favourite childhood books in the library. From The Secret Seven, Artemis Fowl, Alex Rider, Cirque Du Freak and so much more. All 5 of us sisters are readers now because of how much time we spent around books.
Our parents are also readers so that I also helped us to become readers as books were always part of our life. Our parents books filled our house and my parents house has bookcases upon bookcases in every room and we still moved our parents older books in the attic as they don’t read as much now as they used to so we could make space for our books.
As all 5 of us were readers and have similar tastes in books we would discuss books together and especially us 3 older ones as teens would all fight over who would get to read the single copy our dad bought us first. I won because I am the oldest (it’s one of the few privileges the eldest has and I took full advantage). We fangirled about Harry Potter in our teens and discussed theories and had heated debates about our favourite characters.
Even now as we all read similar books we will still stay up late discussing and arguing about books and have all the bookish discussions. It’s like having our own book club. We also recommend (read: force) each other to read our favourite books so we can discuss it with them and we go to book events together and YALC too.
I know that for me being surrounded by books and growing up having my sisters to discuss books with has made me the reader that I am.
The Tsundoku Chronicles 
The library also inspired my love of reading and actually was the driving force behind me starting my blog!
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The Magic Faraway Tree was one of the first books that made me love reading too! Also Roald Dahl. I wish I was the eldest so I could force my sisters to read the books I love 😂 we did all debate Harry Potter late into the night many times though. So fun!
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Weirdly I wasn’t into roald dahl 🙈 but my sisters also force me to read books they love too. That’s how i read the shadowhunter books lol
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yess!! i wrote about cirque du freak yesterday too ❤
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It’s such an under appreciated series
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This is such a lovely post Neelam! I love you moving your parents books to make room for your own! ❤
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Thank you! Lol we have so many books in our house honestly there’s no where to put them all now 😂
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This is so lovely! I wish my sisters were readers too but alas, they aren’t. Instead I get mocked for my reading and my bookcases but hey ho, it asn’t stopped me yet! haha
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Ah I’m so sorry. But I’m glad it didn’t put you off reading ❤️
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I wish my sisters were bigger readers, I don’t really get to talk about books with them. Luckily we didn’t have to fight over Potter, I always saved up go buy my own copy.
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My dad would buy one copy of HP and we would have to share so we would fight every single time who gets to read it first 😂
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Lovely post. My Mum always read to me and my sister, and the library was a huge part of our lives. x
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