I started enjoying books in primary school. I didn't do too well at school. I was sick for a while, we now suspect the abdominal issues back then came up again in 2010 and resulted in the sale of the business. But I was always behind after that. All them stupid coloured maths sticks I missed out on. But I became a library monitor as I had read almost everything in the library at school ( ok I did not read all the girls books and all the chemistry books). But I left school to get a job after year 10. A scholar I was not, a dreamer I was, so the teachers said. ( it was all those adventure books, you know the Gang of Five Save the World, and all that stuff)
But I read a lot and became a trainee technician with the PMG, and loved visiting the State Library after work. Fish and chips in Swanston st, then into the Library before night school for year 11 subjects.