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Thanksgiving greetings to my fellow Canadians!

I assume all of us are, or have been, voracious readers? Would anyone like to share the first book that really grabbed their attention and made them want to dive deeper into the world of literature?
When I was in high school, I read "Wuthering Heights" for the first time. That did it for me - I've lost track of how many times I've read it. It was a comfort book in my young adulthood, that's for sure.
 
Very sweet of you. Thank you and a Happy Thanksgiving to you too.

Just to take it down a notch or 2, as a small boy, I fell in love with reading a series of silly little books that was about a pig named Freddy and his farm friends.
It had titles like Freddy and the Rocket Ship or Freddy goes to Mars.
Curious to know how the fire started for others.
 
As a kid, I wanted to play sports. Unfortunately, coordination is not my strong suit, and my dreams of being a star athlete never came to fruition. Fortunately, I loved to read. Of course, I mostly read sports stories at first. However, reading White Fang was the first time I was totally engaged with a character. I rooted for him through every trial and tribulation. I can't say that book made me want to write (that was decades before I started writing), but it was a shining example of how a character can pull you into a story.
 
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As a kid, I wanted to play sports. Unfortunately, coordination is not my strong suit, and my dreams of being a star athlete never came to fruition. Fortunately, I loved to read. Of course, I mostly read sports stories at first. However, reading White Fang was the first time I was totally engaged with a character. I rooted for him through every trial and tribulation. I can't say that book made me want to write (that was decades before I started writing), but it was a shining example of how a character can pull you into a story.
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Ah! You should have read Juggling for the Complete Klutz! That helps so much with coordination (if you actually try to practice what the book teaches) but it is a ton of fun even if you don't care about juggling.

Believe it or not, I used to hate reading. It was just a bunch of boring, worthless nonsense in school of words mixed with pictures of apples and whatever to fill in the words you weren't smart enough to read.

Then came the summer after 2nd grade. I discovered non-school books that were actually interesting.

I started reading a series of old children's books that my Mom had from when she was a kid. Not sure what the collection is called. One of the first ones was called "This is the House Where Jack Lived". It starts off something like "This is the boy that walked the dog that lived in the house where Jack lived" "This the the pail that fell on the boy that walked the dog..." "This is the man that held the pail..." And so on all the way back to "And this is Jack!"

Long story short, it tells the story of how Jack's spill-over bath water led to a series of events throughout the whole house that ultimately resulted in a pail of water getting dropped on the other boy as he was walking his dog. It is quite silly and a bit annoy to read, but it does show how seemingly unimportant things can cause enormous chain reactions.

But probably my first major favorite was Narnia or the Rush Revere series. I had watched one or two of the Narnia movies when I was about 5 or so.
 
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