The Old Folks Home

[Beer can]

I know Maddy's school has a good library. She's in advance reading so she's required to read so many books every month. We read a lot. We're making our way through the Little House books right now. It's our bedtime ritual. SIL even sent us a Little House cookbook. Next series is the Boxcar Children. Other SIL sent Maddy the box set for Christmas.

Loved the Little House books, I'd probably read them again today.
I still want to read the new one Pioneer Girl.
I remember reading the Boxcar Children books also, loved them. Man there's a lot of them.
I bet Maddy would like the Miss Piggle-Wiggle's magic series, lots of them too, I loved them as a kid.
My aunt worked at Peterson publishing? In PA when we were kids and gave us tons of books. One time for Christmas I got the complete set of Hardy Boys and my sister Nancy Drew.

 

[maddysmamaw]

We've read the first two Harry Potter books but we're holding off on the others until she's older. That's a lot of death for an eight year old.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I read since I was child would sit and read a book a day.. Now with my vision I buy the verbal ones
as reading words gives me massive eye strain...
We had many that where required when we were in school

 

[microchick]

I absorbed books like my brain was a sponge and they were water when I was a kid. I still love to read. I was one of these youngsters who even read over the summer months and when I got tried of reading books, I turned my attention to comics. I even won a contest over summer break for who could read the most books at the local library. I was just a voracious reader.

I remember those Boxcar Children books! I haven't thought about those in years. There was also a series about a young student nurse that I read and then there were the classics, Black Beauty, Treasure Island, Journey to the Center of the Earth. I remember impressing the heck out of a High School English Teacher by reading Michner's Hawaii and doing a report on it. And I have to admit I became hopelessly hooked on the Harry Potter series along with the Mockingjay series.

A couple of years ago I caved and got a Nextbook so I could down load books to read while we were moving/retiring, but I still love the feel of a real book. Rereading one is like visiting an old friend.

 

[maddysmamaw]

I read a lot of old sci fi when I was young. All my mom read were harlequin romances. I hated most people then, so romance was the furthest thing from my mind. I wanted to escape. Sci fi let me do that. Have space, will travel.

 

[microchick]

I read a lot of old sci fi when I was young. All my mom read were harlequin romances. I hated most people then, so romance was the furthest thing from my mind. I wanted to escape. Sci fi let me do that. Have space, will travel.

Star Trek, any of the series and the Dragonriders of Pern, were my favorites when I got into my teens and adulthood. I also Loved Stephen King books, and other horror books. Now I'm into reading TEOWAWKI and disaster books.

I was always a pretty lonely kid and adolescent. We lived rural and all my friends lived in the city. Books were my friends.

 

[pennyJo1960]

see I read that and his Alaska.. all of John Grishim's and most of James Patterson's
novels in school to Kill a Mockingbird and there was one we had to read to graduate
cannot even say the name anymore close to 500 pages in the darn thing

 

[maddysmamaw]

Star Trek, any of the series and the Dragonriders of Pern, were my favorites when I got into my teens and adulthood. I also Loved Stephen King books, and other horror books. Now I'm into reading TEOWAWKI and disaster books. 

I was always a pretty lonely kid and adolescent. We lived rural and all my friends lived in the city. Books were my friends.

Jr high was rural Selma. I was goofy looking and a nerd so I was tormented.

 

[Beer can]

I read a lot of old sci fi when I was young. All my mom read were harlequin romances. I hated most people then, so romance was the furthest thing from my mind. I wanted to escape. Sci fi let me do that. Have space, will travel.

Isaac Asimov, loved his books.

 

[Beer can]

Star Trek, any of the series and the Dragonriders of Pern, were my favorites when I got into my teens and adulthood. I also Loved Stephen King books, and other horror books. Now I'm into reading TEOWAWKI and disaster books. 

I was always a pretty lonely kid and adolescent. We lived rural and all my friends lived in the city. Books were my friends.

You like Stephen King, I read everything he wrote besides anything he wrote in the past 15yrs or more....Maybe one, read Buick 8 not sure when he wrote it.
I would like to get read back up on his Dark Tower series, think I was at the third book, wrote more. Heard there is a movie coming out, I'd have to re-read the few I already read before the one's I haven't before I would watch the movie.
If you haven't read it, 'Haunted Mesa' by Louis L'Amour, I've read every Louis L'Amour book ever wrote, that one, westerns mostly, that one is more like a Stephen King novel, wow...wish the old guy lived to write a few more.