Book Blogger Hop!

Hola, readers! I'm participating in this week's Book Blogger Hop (hosted by Jennifer at Crazy for Books) for a couple reasons:

• I haven't done one in a while and I liked this week's question.


• I'm about 300 pages into a 1200 page book... so it's probably going to be a couple more days before I get to post a review. Sorry about that. But after this book I'll be in the mood for some quicker reads!

Anyhoo, this week's topic is a good one. Here's the question:

“When did you realize reading was your passion and a truly important part of your life?”

And here's my answer: I don't know if I've ever actually had that realization - reading has been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember. My parents weren't bookish. Neither of them read for pleasure. Ever. But I did learn to read pretty quickly in school and it just took off from there. I also had not the best childhood (boo-hoo), and I remember being able to completely sink into books as a kid and everything else around me just vanished. I wouldn't even hear when someone called my name, I was in a completely other world. And people never really made fun of me for being such a reader as I grew up - I didn't really hang out with people like that in school. So it never seemed anything other than normal to me.

I guess the closest I can come to "realizing" that reading was a truly important part of my life was when I was discussing tattoo options with my boyfriend (who dislikes tattoos, btw). I was trying to express my frustration because I decided I wanted a bookish tattoo but couldn't find or think of one that would represent my love for reading accurately. And as I was talking about it, I realized how much I really do want a tattoo to represent my bookish ways, because reading has been the one great, constant love in my life. (Obviously I love my honeyman more, but reading has been a continuous presence in my life since the age of about 6.) As of yet, I haven't though of that perfect bookish tattoo, but I will dammit!

So I guess that's my answer. And I'd love for you guys to tell me when you had this epiphany about reading! (Or give me reader-themed tattoo suggests, I'd appreciate the ideas!) :-)

BTW, before you leave you should check out my Summer Mini-Readathon, on July 10th! It's going to be so fun, and I have recently had news of a BONUS challenge / giveaway... I'll announce more on that sometime in the beginning of next week.

Happy Hopping!