I thought it might be nice to have a thread about how we got into some of the books and our reading habits with them, be it Wicca/Sweep or Balefire :)

Heres mine about the Wicca books:

I first discovered the Wicca series (being from the UK) when i was at school. To kill time before the bus home from town some of my friends and i used to go to the local library (mainly to keep warm to be honest!) and i came across The Coven.
Every time we went to the library i searched for the first book but never found it ..so began reading the second one a little more each time, feeling guilty for missing out the first one.
I ended up reading most of the second book and having to go back on myself when i finally got the first book :)

During breaks from school i often read a book a day from the Wicca series so made myself deliberately slow down :)
I’m currently re-reading the entire series and am making sure i don’t go through them too fast!

Being from the US, I discovered it as Sweep. I came across it on the Internet– I was into the Circle of Three series (a more realistic series about three girls studying Wicca) that was coming out around the same time, and there was a lot of fandom crossover. So one day, in between Co3 releases, I decided to pick up the Book of Shadows and loved it. And since it ran longer than Co3, it quickly became my primary love at the time. I still love it and am eagerly awaiting the rest of the bind-ups (since most of my original copies are lost to the ages /o\)

I first found out about the Wicca series (I live in Europe, so my version is ‘Wicca’, not ‘Sweep’) when friends of mine got into Wicca when we were around 12-13 years old. At that time, Wicca was a bit of a fad (you know how at that age everyone wants to act special =P). They read the Wicca books, and slowly slowly I got into them too. Eventually, they abandoned them half-way through, and as a result, I did too. Peer pressure and all that. Years later, I came across them once again, and I slowly got back into them, and I realised just how truly amazing they were. Brilliant writing technique, awesome amounts of knowledge on Wicca, which I began respecting more for the religion it is, brilliant everything! I started buying all of the rest, because the first few had been given to me by friends as a birthday present. Then I found out that two of the books (Eclipse and Night’s Child, I believe) had gone out of print all throughout Malta, where I live, and I was having trouble finding it online, until I managed to purchase them from a second-hand site in very good condition. I am so happy to have the entire series now, and I’m currently looking for the second book in the Balefire series, which seems to be out of print. Fingers crossed! :D

I live in the Netherlands and I found out about ‘Wicca’ (the way they call Sweep here) when I was 13 Years old. I was interested in magick since I was very young and always searching for new books in this genre. So, one time I went to te library and just found the first book in Dutch. I read and had to read the second book immediately. Since then I read all the books twice in Dutch and once in English. I like them better in English so now I’m trying to find and order the English books (uk-version)and read all of them again :D
When I read the Sweep/Wicca seriefor the first time I discovered Balefire and got addicted to those books too. Now I’m waiting for Immortal Beloved.