LAST EDITED ON Dec-10-15 AT 04:17 PM (EST)
 
>Y'see, I wandered through my father's shelf of WW2 history books, and
>found
>*snip* which I then picked up and spent the next...
>month or two? Reading.
>
>In first grade.
>

Yep, went through something similar. I was in the 'gifted' reading/literature programs all the way through my junior/senior high schooling. I think I read 'The Hobbit' the first time in 3rd grade. Sometime during my 4th grade, I'd picked up one of Mom's Anne McCaffrey dragon books (think it was the 'White Dragon'), and took it along to school for downtime.

My teacher tried to have me expelled for bringing porn into the classroom (would have been 1981). Mom found the teacher's opinion less than amusing.

Brian