I used to read a lot as a child. Back then, I feel like I had a greater drive to do it, which started to get lost during high school though. I used to love reading Jules Verne (consuming as many of his volumes as I could), then probably one of my greatest achievements in terms of reading was going through Lord of the Rings in just 2 weeks. As I got into high school though, the passion for literature started to fade out, as we were getting dug into unlikeable mandatory reads. At least i still had the specialized history stuff...
Getting into college, I pretty much ended up reading more material in a week than I read in years before. Might have still been mandatory readings, but they were more interesting. I started to slowly get back a little bit of my old interest for reading fictional literature, even if that started through visual novels. First, this little thing...
...then, as I got into Touhou, I ended up reading the first 4 volumes of Forbidden Scrollery (and intend to complete the collection until the end of this year). It just makes you feel as if you missed a lot of stuff by not having read until now.