I can personally tell you that books were a huge influence in my life. My love for reading began at a very young age, and I owe this first to my grandparents. My paternal grandmother, an elementary school teacher, taught me to read, literally by candlelight, because the town I spent my preschool years didn’t always have electricity. She read to us first, until my younger sister and I learned to read in both the English and our native language.
My maternal grandfather, the first engineer in his town, let me read his vast collection of well-guarded classics. We …read more