Jonathan Taylor, Author at The Writer's Cookbook https://www.writerscookbook.com/author/jonathanptaylor/ Serving writers with all the ingredients they need to succeed Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:57:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.writerscookbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-writers-cookbook-logo-small-32x32.png Jonathan Taylor, Author at The Writer's Cookbook https://www.writerscookbook.com/author/jonathanptaylor/ 32 32 Books That Changed My Life https://www.writerscookbook.com/books-that-changed-my-life/ https://www.writerscookbook.com/books-that-changed-my-life/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:00:16 +0000 http://www.writerscookbook.com/?p=2178 Like so many writers, as a child, I loved books, especially old ‘important-looking’ books by ‘important-sounding’ people like Shakespeare and Dickens and someone called ‘Encyclopedia.’ I loved the look of them, the feel of them, the smell of them. I just couldn’t read them. They were mysterious, alien hieroglyphics to me, because---unlike my clever elder siblings---I couldn’t read until relatively late, and was seen as the ‘backward’ one (my father’s term, not mine). I was a slow learner (still am, in many ways) and couldn’t read or write till I was seven or eight. This made reading and writing seem all the more strange, desirable, fascinating, like a secret code.

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