Only after I had half my answer wrote did I notice that it's an older entry, but I found the topic so interesting that I thought I just post anyway. You didn't confuse anything, so no problem at all! ;)
I was mostly going for crime and mystery books and stayed with these two categories for a very long time. By now I read almost everything as long as the book is appealing in some way, but that wasn't the case as a child. I do get to read some of these typical children's books now due to my study (part of it is specifically children's and Young Adult's books and I love this), but I haven't when I was younger simply because it didn't appeal to me. It bored me, most of the time, so I didn't touch them. My mother used to read fairytales to us too and I bought the complete collection of the Grimm fairytales just last year because I want to re-read them! In my family there wasn't that much reading when I was starting with books, my mum read something now and again, but I know what you mean. And my school back then was very supportive of reading. There was a library bus coming to our school once a week to offer us to read books, we had book nights where the whole class slept in the school in sleeping bags and torches to read together and quietly talking to about the books and switching/recommanding things to each other. I absolutely loved those nights. It was sometimes paired with a night walk (the school was right beside a forest) and the teacher reading a story to all of us before we went to do our own reading. It was highly encouraging to read. I don't want kids, but I would advice everyone wanting/having them to read to them!
I think, for me, it's a bit of both. I manage myself specifically to have time with a book or online reading because with my life now, sometimes I need this down time with just me and a good book. As a child I've been outside a lot with friends or playing Gameboy or something and those things have changed, so that might play into it as well.
Agreed on there being something about being surrounded by books. For me, a home has to have books, I'm highly confused to be in a place where there are no books. Seeing them, touching their spines, especially with old books smelling them makes me smile and happy. Get me to a bookstore or a library and you most certainly will have a happy companion. Holding a book, feeling the pages and the weight, it's precious to me. I love beautiful volumes and buy those if I have the money and I'm extremly careful with my books because they are just something important to me and I want to keep them for a long time. So reading on the tablet I own is only the last resort if I can't find a book any other way or if it's really so expensive I just can't afford it as a physical copy.
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I was mostly going for crime and mystery books and stayed with these two categories for a very long time. By now I read almost everything as long as the book is appealing in some way, but that wasn't the case as a child. I do get to read some of these typical children's books now due to my study (part of it is specifically children's and Young Adult's books and I love this), but I haven't when I was younger simply because it didn't appeal to me. It bored me, most of the time, so I didn't touch them.
My mother used to read fairytales to us too and I bought the complete collection of the Grimm fairytales just last year because I want to re-read them! In my family there wasn't that much reading when I was starting with books, my mum read something now and again, but I know what you mean. And my school back then was very supportive of reading. There was a library bus coming to our school once a week to offer us to read books, we had book nights where the whole class slept in the school in sleeping bags and torches to read together and quietly talking to about the books and switching/recommanding things to each other. I absolutely loved those nights. It was sometimes paired with a night walk (the school was right beside a forest) and the teacher reading a story to all of us before we went to do our own reading. It was highly encouraging to read. I don't want kids, but I would advice everyone wanting/having them to read to them!
I think, for me, it's a bit of both. I manage myself specifically to have time with a book or online reading because with my life now, sometimes I need this down time with just me and a good book. As a child I've been outside a lot with friends or playing Gameboy or something and those things have changed, so that might play into it as well.
Agreed on there being something about being surrounded by books. For me, a home has to have books, I'm highly confused to be in a place where there are no books. Seeing them, touching their spines, especially with old books smelling them makes me smile and happy. Get me to a bookstore or a library and you most certainly will have a happy companion. Holding a book, feeling the pages and the weight, it's precious to me. I love beautiful volumes and buy those if I have the money and I'm extremly careful with my books because they are just something important to me and I want to keep them for a long time. So reading on the tablet I own is only the last resort if I can't find a book any other way or if it's really so expensive I just can't afford it as a physical copy.