No time to change before this pic but I can’t miss life over an outfit 🙅🏽♀️Can technology make books obsolete? I sure hope not! Books played a big part in my development after my dad took my brother and I out of school when we were younger. It terrifies me to think that books could become lame one day! If I could, I’d have a library full of them just like this one at the Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Brazil!
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Backstory: For his own reasons, my dad took my brother and I out of school in the seventh grade and felt that it was better that we not go outside the house for anything. Me being the naturally curious person that I am, I had to keep learning somehow.
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In order to do this, I had a @seventeen magazine subscription that I paid for with money from chores I did for my grandma. I read it cover to cover usually in a day. After I finished it, I would read random things around the house like all the cereal boxes when I ate breakfast. The ones with trivia were my favorite! When I used the bathroom I’d read all the shampoo bottles, toothpaste boxes, denture creams, Tampons, enemas (I lived with old people lol) and I’d challenge myself to correctly pronounce every word on the medicine bottles. When I read all that, I would go get one of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s we had and dive into those. I just wanted to learn so everything was fair game!
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I went back to school after I got caught running away from home. It was the last nine weeks of the 9th grade. The last grade I’d completed was the 6th. The administration at the school decided I needed to be placed in all remedial classes because they were convinced that there was no way I would be able to read and write on a 9th grade level. To their surprise, I aced every class. All that reading on my own over the years came in handy! I also watched a lot of Conjunction Junction, Reading Rainbow and the California Raisons song about checking out books was one of my favs! When 10th grade started I was in all regular classes and a few advanced classes.
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So you can see why I value books so much and pray they never go out of style! Do you still read books?