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I love to read! If we all lived closer, what a great reading club we would be.
posted by
Annicita
on December 3, 2022 at 4:11 AM
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Re: adnohr
Wasn't reading those books wonderful. We were either reading or doing something outside active and competitive. Once in a while we did have to do a bit of work.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 20, 2022 at 8:34 PM
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My foster grandmother had a large cupboard in the spare room full of books -- Zane Grey stories, the Bobbsey Twins, Bra'er Rabbit, Nancy Drew, The Hardy boys, My friend Flicka, Black Beauty....and of course the Grimms Fairy Tales, among others. As soon as I learned to read I went through that cupboard - spent hours and hours and hours curled up with a book, my brother Bird did too. There was no electricity, so no TV. It was our story fountain.
posted by
adnohr
on November 20, 2022 at 6:14 PM
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What a wonderful mother you had! A blessing. And books are a treasure to enjoy! Good for you.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on November 20, 2022 at 4:15 PM
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Re: Ciel
I had a similar incident. My Czechoslovakian Grandma bought me the Bible (stories) from the whole Bible in comic book form before I ever went to school. I read that thing over and over and over.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 20, 2022 at 1:55 PM
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Re: Kabu
I sure understand Wiley feeling that way. That's how I felt when I first got it. I have worked my way throuh the parts I want to use most, but there are still lots and lots of things I could do with it if I wasn't intimidated by mine.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 20, 2022 at 1:51 PM
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Wiley sat with his laptop on his lap and saidas he closed the lid. "I won't us ethis again ever it has got too difficult." I put it down where it sat for a couple of years until he died. Ten my dear friend Trish took it and she and her husband ran over it with the car tires several times. No one else was going to get his words.
posted by
Kabu
on November 20, 2022 at 1:16 PM
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One of my earliest memories was the Christmas when I was 3, and was given a big hardcover book of kids' literature. I was so impressed I'd been given a 'grown-up book!'
posted by
Ciel
on November 20, 2022 at 11:40 AM
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My mother was a reader, too. For most of my school years the
only library we had access to was the one at school. Our town had none. This meant that books were gifts from our dear aunties at Christmas and birthdays, and we read them more than once.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 20, 2022 at 11:19 AM
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