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Jaybe, 3 months ago

I’m still growing up! I collect books, mainly children’s, and am a self-confessed bibliophile. When I was younger I used to get lost in Narnia, sit on the river with Huckleberry Finn, have wild adventures with Enid Blyton, go to Wonderland with Carroll, laugh at Lear and when I had nothing else I read cereal boxes! I still do all of the above to this very day and have pleasure in advising parents on books at book fairs. Sadly,
e-books seem to be taking over the world….you just can’t beat the feel of a book, new or old.

linaji, 3 months ago

Ohhh Jaybe.. this is wonderful you had me right there with you on the banks of the river…thank you!! splendid reading! I love Huck!

TeriLee, 3 months ago

OOOO!!! As far as the greats you named several….because I grew up with a Grandmother that was a literature professor I have to add a couple greats…
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bronson Alcott
Nathaniel Hawthorne
and of course one of my very mostest faves….Willy Shakespeare

But as a kid….nobody’s books made me giggle more than Judy Blume

linaji in reply to TeriLee’s comment, 3 months ago

Ohhh when Judy was bloomin I was well on my way,...xoxox you whipper snapper you!! I know this sounds weird.. but I forgot to mention ...
Mary Renault… The Persian Boy and the King must die…
I could not put these down… thank you TeriLeeoxoxo

TeriLee, 3 months ago

ooooo!!! I didn’t mention Melville’s Moby Dick….oh my gosh, I fell offa my chair in the library …trluy an enriching experience…

TeriLee, 3 months ago

Not to mention…..there isn’t very many Stephen King novels I have not read…...the freaky stuff is cool :)

Jaybe, 3 months ago

Judy Blume! I forgot her in my list. Oh, and S.E.Hinton – the whole series, but Rumblefish was my favourite. I work with homeles teens and that book got them into reading and going to the library. Wonderful!

RLHall, 3 months ago

I loved Little Women (Jo was my fav), Tolkien, Longfellow (book handed down from my Great Grandfather), The Bible, C.S. Lewis, Dickens, Dr. Suess! I’ve always loved fairy tales, Jaberwocky?, and so many of the above named, I have a room lined with book shelves, and have now run out of room on the shelves! Books are precious!

Jan Landers, 3 months ago

growing up…..let’s see…..as jaybe says…..that process continues…. :) my faves were emerson, thoreau, hemmingway….shel silverstein…...i still adore children’s books.. :) i cannot think of more at the moment…..

Jaybe, 3 months ago

Feast you eyes on this
We have a children’s book store in the area which is called ‘Seven Stories’. It would be my dream job. Anyone else have anything quite like this?

Jaybe, 3 months ago

Sorry – typo – feast YOUR eyes on it! LOL

linaji in reply to TeriLee’s comment, 3 months ago

I was waiting for Stephen King from you girl!!!

linaji in reply to Jaybe’s comment, 3 months ago

LOVED SUESS!! and how wonderful Jaybe… how you have found elements that attract the kids to read!! Bless YOU

linaji in reply to RLHall’s comment, 3 months ago

I also have ONLYone collection thing I do.. POP UP BOOKS!!

linaji in reply to Jan Landers’s comment, 3 months ago

LOVE YOU JAN.. how bout that book by Jan Bear.. the one where you find your heart amonst all the animals..which reminds me…Jungle Book!!

linaji in reply to Jaybe’s comment, 3 months ago

YOU ARE AN ANGEL!! love the link.. thank you.. i will spend some time…appreciation to Jaybeeeee!!

Jaybe, 3 months ago

This is such a wicked thread! I guess my all time favourite is The Little Prince by Antoine St Exupery. I have it in 10 different languages and also the DVD. That is the ultimate ‘no age’ book and simply reminds us that we were all young once…and can continue to be….

linaji in reply to Jaybe’s comment, 3 months ago

Ohhh Jaybe.. I must pick that back up again…thanks!

Joanne Bradley, 3 months ago

Oh my! You have really started something Lina! I breathe books and have overflowing shelves everywhere. My favs: Ayn Rand ( so glad to hear someone else dores her) C. S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott for sure, and Rhonda, Jo was my favourite too! I read anything and almost anything :-) but I am also a big fan of the top 3 sci-fi guys Asimov, Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. I am lucky to have a husband who shares my passion for books and are all time favouite togheter besides Ayn Rand, is Pat Conroy who wrote Prince of Tides! Okay better stop here for now…Oh my gawd and I can’t forget Thoreau!!!

linaji in reply to Joanne Bradley’s comment, 3 months ago

JOANNE,,I just got chills reading your entry… I loved Jo too forgot to tell Rhonda… yes.. and I loved the Dune Series by Frank Herbert ..My dream man has to be like your husband!! He simply must READ!! OXOXO

Joanne Bradley, 3 months ago

Lina, you have such a wonderful way of engaging us in community sharing! Thank you !

Judi Taylor, 3 months ago

“The Call of the Wild” ... Jack London and I had a love of horses … “Saddles for Breakfast” ... that one may be too obsure. The Nancy Drew series was also a fav. Hey ,I grew up on a little house on the prairie … lol

I loved the classics too … From Moby Dick to Poems by Robert Frost. Little Women, the Scarlet Letter and many many more….

There is one story that haunts me still … “I never promised you a rose garden” ... and Sherlock Holmes was my hero!!!!

A very old and hard to find story, “The Moonstone” is an exciting mystery. Stephen King use to scare the heck out of me!!! But I still read them! lol

TeriLee, 3 months ago

OH MY GOSH…I can’t believe I forgot Jack London….Judi Rocks!!!

linaji in reply to Judi Taylor’s comment, 3 months ago

JUDI!! you reminded me sooooo much…I never promised you a rose garden!! what about Sybil!!

linaji in reply to TeriLee’s comment, 3 months ago

TeriLee… did you read the first..her best Anne Rice..of course I was soooo wanting to be a vampire!!

butchart, 3 months ago

had to do a similar list in the boredom group forum…..... my list is or was there…... i’ll see if i can link it…........i’ll warn you.. i got quite loquacious…........b

linaji in reply to butchart’s comment, 3 months ago

THIS IS EXCITING…GO GET THAT LINK!!!!!!!!!!

butchart, 3 months ago

here

Jaybe, 3 months ago

Wow Butchart that’s a wonderful list. Have read quite a few of them but there are some I’ll now look out for. Oh to find a First Edition pristine copy of Dune – I could retire….LOL.

Judi Taylor, 3 months ago

Memnock the Devil … That was very deep, in my opinion. The fallen angel confesses his love of God …

linaji in reply to butchart’s comment, 3 months ago

OK you had mee reeeling at STARFUCKS!!! LOLO I ADORE U ..LOLOL

Joanne Bradley, 3 months ago

Okay! I had to come back because I forgot a few series: Jean Auel”s Earth’s Children series (Clan of the Cave Bear), Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series and of course Anne Rice and the Vampire Chronicles! All great!

Jason Laderoute, 3 months ago

To be honest I did not learn how to read until 1997 sometime in July,
I wrote Riddles and Rhymes and spoke in circles until shortly there after, the reading came through my desire to combat false Biblical Teachings, and so it was the Bible I learned, first, how to read. After this I poured through History and Biographical works, and then went to war, throughout my city LOL it didn’t go very well. Since then I have grown found of C.S. Lewis, John Bunyan, John Calvin, Johnathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, and The Bible more and More,
I find I have been in a bit of slump over the past couple of years as I have had a yearning to do more writing but I have not done very much follow through on this, I’m sorry if I sound closed minded, in my selection, may even have opened a Pandora’s box here I have mentioned the Authors rather then the Books Because I cannot sperate the works into favorites, except to say that my Favorite is By far inexpressibly the Bible

linaji in reply to Joanne Bradley’s comment, 3 months ago

OHHHH Joanne.. I loved loved this series.. it was my home for so long… I could not put the series down.. both really but the Clan and the Cave Bear….amazing..xoxox

linaji in reply to Jason Laderoute’s comment, 3 months ago

You are amazing !! what pain and triumph!! It is wonderful that we read and love it… your choices sound fantastic and one can never loose reading what inspires our heart!! thanks for sharing

N Kumar Bellani, 3 months ago

did you forget ernest hemingway, scott fitzgerald, ford maddox ford (the devil’s disciple) ezra pound and on the other side of the coin…erich segal, harold robbins (lol)...not to forget alistair mclean!!!...i’m glad your back…welcome!!!!!