Hearing your story, I rather wish I'd been young enough to have Tolkien read to me by my mother. I discovered them on my own in high school, when the bootleg paperback trilogy went through my school, passed from person to person like porn.
My mother read to me. My fondness for Mark Twain, and for reading, comes from her reading Tom Sawyer aloud to me, up to the middle of the whitewashing the fence scene, then going away on some errand. I got impatient, and started reading it myself. I was hooked, at the age of 7 or 8.
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Date: 2003-12-24 12:50 pm (UTC)My mother read to me. My fondness for Mark Twain, and for reading, comes from her reading Tom Sawyer aloud to me, up to the middle of the whitewashing the fence scene, then going away on some errand. I got impatient, and started reading it myself. I was hooked, at the age of 7 or 8.
Your grandmother sounds like a marvelous woman.