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Friday Five
Jul. 4th, 2003 11:35 am1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
I read a lot of Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary and similar. I really don't remember many stories from my pre-reading days. I seem to recall liking Casper. Then I got into Sweet Valley Twins and then Sweet Valley High, and also the Babysitter's Club. I stopped reading that kind of thing when I was about twelveish.
2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children? There was one, but I don't remember what it was called. There was one that I was fascinated by.. these island people were all getting ready to leave their island for some reason to move somewhere else, and one girl and her younger brother get left behind and they have to fend for themselves.. I believe that the younger brother eventually gets killed by wild dogs, or something. Anyone know what book I'm talking about?
3. Have you reread any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything? I reread Little Women as part of my women's literature type of class my last semester of college and was fascinated by how into it I was when I was young. It's not that I didn't enjoy it as a grown-up, but it was more old-fashioned in language and ideas than I remembered. That's not the type of thing I tend to enjoy now, so it surprised me how much I liked it then.
4. How old were you when you first learned to read? Four.
5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you? I read My Sweet Audrina, by V.C. Andrews, when I was seven. In retrospect, what the heck was my mother thinking to let me read that? I found it laying around.. it belonged to my aunt and I borrowed it. My granny was visiting us (we were living in Columbus GA at the time) and I was reading it and she refused to believe I was actually reading and understanding what I was reading. There was a rhyme near the beginning of the book about the colors coming through the stained glass window, and she thought I just wanted to read it because of that. She started questioning me and I started explaining about the story and stuff. However. I think that it had a stronger influence on me than a book at that age should. It's a somewhat disturbing story involving rape and lies and this little girl believing that her older sister was dead when in fact, she was the sister and everyone was pretending that she had died because of what had happened to her. I think I'd like to read it again, actually.. I read it for the last time in my pre-teen years.. I lost it, or something. I used to love V.C. Andrews, but I stopped reading them after I read the new stuff published after she died due to intense suckage.
I read a lot of Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary and similar. I really don't remember many stories from my pre-reading days. I seem to recall liking Casper. Then I got into Sweet Valley Twins and then Sweet Valley High, and also the Babysitter's Club. I stopped reading that kind of thing when I was about twelveish.
2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children? There was one, but I don't remember what it was called. There was one that I was fascinated by.. these island people were all getting ready to leave their island for some reason to move somewhere else, and one girl and her younger brother get left behind and they have to fend for themselves.. I believe that the younger brother eventually gets killed by wild dogs, or something. Anyone know what book I'm talking about?
3. Have you reread any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything? I reread Little Women as part of my women's literature type of class my last semester of college and was fascinated by how into it I was when I was young. It's not that I didn't enjoy it as a grown-up, but it was more old-fashioned in language and ideas than I remembered. That's not the type of thing I tend to enjoy now, so it surprised me how much I liked it then.
4. How old were you when you first learned to read? Four.
5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you? I read My Sweet Audrina, by V.C. Andrews, when I was seven. In retrospect, what the heck was my mother thinking to let me read that? I found it laying around.. it belonged to my aunt and I borrowed it. My granny was visiting us (we were living in Columbus GA at the time) and I was reading it and she refused to believe I was actually reading and understanding what I was reading. There was a rhyme near the beginning of the book about the colors coming through the stained glass window, and she thought I just wanted to read it because of that. She started questioning me and I started explaining about the story and stuff. However. I think that it had a stronger influence on me than a book at that age should. It's a somewhat disturbing story involving rape and lies and this little girl believing that her older sister was dead when in fact, she was the sister and everyone was pretending that she had died because of what had happened to her. I think I'd like to read it again, actually.. I read it for the last time in my pre-teen years.. I lost it, or something. I used to love V.C. Andrews, but I stopped reading them after I read the new stuff published after she died due to intense suckage.
