I have been a bookworm since I started reading. When I was a kid I would walk to the library every Saturday and get 13 to 14 books. (That was as many as they would let me check out). I would bring them back the next Saturday and get as many more as I could. I started out reading fairy tales, then moved on to folk tales, first from the U.S., then from any other countries I could find folk tales from. I then moved on to mythology. Finally I had read through all the books in the library of that type, so I asked the librarian for suggestions. She is how I got started out on science fiction. Of course, I also read many of the childhood classics. Books like Black Beauty, Little House on the Prairie, etc. In Junior High I was given a list of 100 books recommended reading and read The Iliad and The Odyssey. I was already familiar with the Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses from my mythology reading. Then fantasy with writers like Mercedes Lackey, Piers Anthony, then paranormal romance