05-05-2008, 09:47 AM
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Hi There!
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Good Morning! Awww shucks .... this was a heartwarming thread to start the week with.
I have a very clear memory of my first "real" book. Mom bought me a beautifully bound copy of "Black Beauty" before I could read, so it stayed next to my bed until I could read it. I would go to sleep looking at the beautiful horse running through falling autumn leaves, and wake up to see if I could read it. I was awfully proud when one morning, the letters just clicked, and suddenly I could read. After that, they couldn't stop me from reading!
My short list:
- Black Beauty
- The Aristocats
- Nancy Drew (of course)
And then it got weird:
- All of my Granny's Reader's Digests going back to the 1930's
- Same for her big stack of ancient National Geographics
- Grimm's Fairy Tales (the "real" stories which scared me and they didn't match up to the cartoons anyway)
- Comic books - Little Lulu, Casper, etc
And then I met my first scifi book: Nova
And it's been a wonderful journey through books ever since.
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