I wish I could remember how and when I learned to read since it became such an important part of my life. ( )

These excerpts from literary autobiographies tell of realizing how to read (cracking the code) as well as of discovering personal reading preferences and of librarians good and bad. Often very endearing, the memoirists, excepting of course Yeats, Stein, and Cummings, tell their tales very beautifully. ( )