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No really, Dolls-43!
I too read under the covers with a torch - much to the disapproval of my mother. So much so, I love to read in bed, even to this day.
posted by
Greenfields
on April 2, 2007 at 3:56 AM
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Greenfields
As a keen reader, I enjoyed reading this post. Adore the excuse to read Enid Blyton to my boys these days. Reading books that I read as a child also brings back many happy memories of my sister and I reading with our torches after lights out.
posted by
Dolls-43
on March 28, 2007 at 1:35 AM
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Thank you Justi
makes me feel soooo good. I am happy to share myself with bloggers, especially about things that give me pleasure. Also, that there are generous bloggers - like you - out there, receiving and responding. Cheers.
posted by
Greenfields
on March 25, 2007 at 11:23 PM
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Greenfields
I love your blogs. I can associate with your talk of reading. I have always read. Fiction until I was in business several years ago. Then I began to read Trade papers and business books. So boring. It is in the land of the mind that all super-reality takes place. Everything is prettier, brighter, softer, and kinder. Thank for sharing yourself with us.
posted by
Justi
on March 25, 2007 at 8:28 PM
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Malcolm
you are so right. Sometimes I think I would like to read the books I read in my childhood again. Most of them have messages for the child in us, still. My all time favourite is Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass. They are so profound.
posted by
Greenfields
on March 25, 2007 at 6:48 PM
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I think
that, as a writer, you can never read too much. Being taken right away from your world is what we're all trying to help others to do. What a dream that would be? I read Noddy to my daughter now and still love that little yellow car.
posted by
malcolm
on March 25, 2007 at 9:54 AM
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Thnak you Afzal
posted by
Greenfields
on March 25, 2007 at 5:01 AM
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rondon
so true. It would bemagical to see out development through the books we read, in the period we read them, and their effect on us.
posted by
Greenfields
on March 25, 2007 at 5:00 AM
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kingmi
You can't be serious? Imean if we didn't read waht we did growing up, where would we be? I like to think that my work and service are informed by my reading. No?
posted by
Greenfields
on March 25, 2007 at 4:59 AM
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Excellent post .
posted by
afzal50
on March 25, 2007 at 3:34 AM
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robdon, Quite beautifully put. I should think such an endeavor would be
profoundly rewarding, if applied to contemporary cultural experiences -- like now I mean -- on Blogit!
posted by
kingmi
on March 24, 2007 at 11:48 PM
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I sometimes suspect it would be interesting to write a life-line with references to the books that have been read through the course of life... like yourself there was the Enid Blyton childhood... then adventures in exotic locations... in my twenties there was quite a lot of Herman Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene .. in my thirties there have been a lot of writers' writers like Paul Auster, Ian McEwan...writing such a time-line would be like wandering the banks of the literary stream that has flowed through the years of life, sometimes consoling or providing still pools for reflection but at other times surging, provoking, pushing barely conscious buttons.
posted by
robdon67
on March 24, 2007 at 11:41 PM
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Greenfields, Thanks for stopping by. You know, I like to joke that I look forward to dimentia, so that I can re-read all the LeCarre portfolio. I enjoyed them all so. But seriously, I think retirement is for reading about, as well as enjoying the world. Today is for work and service.
posted by
kingmi
on March 24, 2007 at 9:41 PM
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