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Vee✨'s avatar

Reading the comprehension passages in English textbooks then was so sweet! I did so even up till SS3 😂. I used Lantern books in primary school and I can still remember "Tunde's birthday party and the citizen's parrot". Then, my mom used to buy me those Ben Akponine Samuel kinda books and I hated step-mothers and kings like die. Pacesetters' Forgive me, Maryam will always be in my head. I think that was the first serious book I read asides the "childish" ones. I love reading tooo and I'm slowly initiating my friends and when they ask me why I read a lot, I tell them they haven't met Riri 😂❤️.

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Ririwrites's avatar

Awwww🥹 I did it until SS3 too and Ben Akponine’s books were my closest companion back then😭 good old days»> I’ll give anything to go back

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ameena m.'s avatar

this feels like the a wrap of my own journey with reading too😄. I've always been a voracious reader, I read everything then, textbooks, magazines and newspapers, most of the books in my dad's library, fairytales, but I think the only thing different for me was that I didn't develop a deeper appreciation for Nigerian stories, until I left secondary school. Reading led me to writing and now these two things have become an important part of my life.

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Timi's avatar

Loveddd this

I also lovd reading the comprehension stories in English textbooks 😂😭

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Ririwrites's avatar

Thank you❤️

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Joke_themuse's avatar

You what I love the most about this post? It's the fact that I just read my life story.😭😂

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Ririwrites's avatar

Theifffff😒

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ameena m.'s avatar

samee😂😂, everything down to the dates

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Timi's avatar

Let me guess your next post will be about your journey as a writer?👀🤭

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Ririwrites's avatar

Let’s seee

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ujuritaellianna's avatar

idk... the first books I'll always remember reading are the victims and for mbatha and rabeka. i think i remember these books because they stood out sm for me and i re-read them countless times before jss3 or so... before then, aside from the winnie-de pooh and merlin and pinocchio stories...etc i had read, i was just borrowing my siblings phone to read stories in facebook. like actual fictional stories set in nigeria (they were mostly teen romance) then i knew what wattpad was, and from there... my reading culture was fully taking shape.

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Isiakamariam's avatar

❤️❤️

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♤ÈMI ÀṢÀKÉ♤'s avatar

This is sooo real, it is like my own journey of reading but written by another person, ohh i remember how i always look forward to visiting my cousin because she has a mini library 🥹,my dad was always buying me books from booksellers,i literally bonded with people because they read😂, I may not like you but if i see you with a book all the hate will vanish🌚🥹

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