/lit/ - Literature

As a child I spent most of my waking hours reading, mostly children's classics of which I remember most fondly The Gruffalo, The Secret Garden, David, and Wilde's fairytales.

When I went to school, I got my first phone, and then a laptop a few years later. I started watching TV and by 17 my brain was mush. I pretty much didn't read at all during my adolescence.

Despite this, I was still above average at English, and one day I confessed to my teacher that I hadn't actually read regularly since I was a child. She actually gave me her copy of Huck Finn from when she was at school, and along with Under Milk Wood and Poe's poetry, it started me reading again. I now spend most of waking hours reading.