Oh, books were very important to me as a child, but mostly because they represented educational and knowledge. So anything in the household that represented education and knowledge was important to my parents, which was important to me. So, their whole thing was education will take you wherever you want to go, and allow you to call your own shots, and you know, do what you want to do. So if you want to read comic books, that’s fine. If you want to read magazines, that’s fine. If you want to, you know there were certain things they wanted me to read more than others.
One that stands out was Time magazine. My mom, as a kid, wanted me to really read Time magazine. She wanted me to be aware of the world, you know, I always got a kick out of looking at the images in National Geographic. You know, like I said, I always loved comic books. We actually had a very large dictionary in our house, one of those big, big monster dictionaries. We had one of those. So, whenever I asked her how to spell a word, she would just point to the dictionary.
That increased you know my love for language because you’d be looking up one word and inevitably you come across 50 to 100 other words. So when it came time to reading books, my vocabulary was a lot more expansive so I was able to go through books faster. I was able to read books, you know, a little higher level. And to me it was
I know a lot of authors talk about the magic and the wonder and things.
To me it wasn’t really about that per se, it was just, I just loved the storytelling, I just loved the everything about the book itself. And the education I was getting that was taking me beyond the place I currently was. And that was a really big important part to me.
