Nostalgia Reading |
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Jan 10 2009, 02:11 AM
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Sing to Me Group: Member Posts: 1,825 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 10,808 |
What books did you read in your childhood that you always can go back to and reread over and over again? Books that you remember borrowing from the library and running back home to read? Ones you wrote book reports on and made dioramas and board games for?
I just picked up Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine again. Still an amazing and wonderful book. The romance in that is completely more believable and better written than Bella/Edward in Twilight. I also can always get wrapped up by Roald Dahl's books. Harry Potter is kinda childhood considering I really did grow up with Harry as the books came out. |
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Jan 10 2009, 02:16 AM
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I'm Jc Group: Mentor Posts: 13,619 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,556 |
harry potter for sure. i read those from 6th grade to college
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Jan 10 2009, 03:40 AM
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<3<3<3<3 Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,177 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,779 |
Harry Potter
The notebook Blindness Catcher in the rye Chocolate war |
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Jan 10 2009, 04:17 AM
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Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,154 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 95,404 |
Patricia MacLachlan's Sarah, Plain and Tall and Skylark. Those were my favourite books back then.
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Jan 10 2009, 04:35 AM
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in a matter of time Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,151 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 191,357 |
Harry Potter, Gossip Girl (although they're not really childhood books but I read them a LONG time ago), Princess Diaries, those Postman pop-up books, Berenstain Bears, Archie comics (does that count?)...and more. I read a lot when I was a kid.
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Jan 10 2009, 11:15 AM
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Has a PhD in horribleness Group: Member Posts: 866 Joined: Sep 2008 Member No: 686,301 |
Hatchet >_>...
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Jan 10 2009, 04:51 PM
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in a matter of time Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,151 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 191,357 |
^ OMG you couldn't put a gun to my head and make me read Hatchet for a second time. I wanted to gouge my eyes out the entire time I was reading it. It didn't help that it was the FIFTH survival-themed book we had read that year.
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Jan 12 2009, 07:37 PM
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Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia series, Patricia C. Wrede's The Enchanted Forest Chronicles and other shit.
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Jan 12 2009, 07:39 PM
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I'm Jc Group: Mentor Posts: 13,619 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,556 |
you don't know what you're talkin about gigi. that was a badass book. i loved hatchet. i loved all gary paulsen's books actually.
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Jan 12 2009, 07:42 PM
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Tick tock, Bill Group: Administrator Posts: 8,764 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 333,948 |
Anything by Shel Silverstein, particularly The Giving Tree.
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Jan 12 2009, 08:56 PM
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Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,154 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 95,404 |
^ OMG you couldn't put a gun to my head and make me read Hatchet for a second time. I wanted to gouge my eyes out the entire time I was reading it. It didn't help that it was the FIFTH survival-themed book we had read that year. The only Gary Paulsen book I've ever read was Brian's Winter, and I pretty much wanted to shoot myself reading it. I cannot understand how this guy can write so many books about the same character surviving in the wilderness; there are only so many things you events you can write about without repeating yourself!!!!!! |
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Jan 12 2009, 09:12 PM
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Jooleeah <3 Group: Official Designer Posts: 687 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 662,481 |
Daughters Of The Moon series, I Was A Teenage Fairy, Junie B Jones, Harry Potter, This Lullaby, Berenstein Bears, The Rainbow Fish, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Archie Comics, All The Disney Stories...
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Jan 12 2009, 09:14 PM
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Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,154 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 95,404 |
Oh man, I just remembered another one: STARGIRL!!! People used to get to the library first to borrow that book. Good stuff.
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Jan 12 2009, 09:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 1,028 Joined: Sep 2007 Member No: 579,129 |
Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, ..Alex Rider series lol, I am the Messenger, Summer of the Swans
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Jan 13 2009, 12:01 AM
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in a matter of time Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,151 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 191,357 |
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Jun 14 2009, 04:34 PM
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isketchaholic Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,977 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 516,154 |
series of unfortunate events (lemony snicket/whatever his real name was = clever clever clever)
THE GOLDEN COMPASS. loved that series so much. yeah I cried when the rabbit and hot air balloon guy from texas died. I ended up purchasing the books years after I read the series. woots I remember stargirl and ella enchanted :O |
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Jun 14 2009, 05:22 PM
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♡♡♡♡♡ Group: Head Staff Posts: 18,173 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 108,478 |
THE GOLDEN COMPASS. loved that series so much. yeah I cried when the rabbit and hot air balloon guy from texas died. I ended up purchasing the books years after I read the series. woots I remember stargirl and ella enchanted :O This. I didn't cry when Lee (I think that's the aeronaut) and his daemon die, but I definitely thought it was sad. The members above me listed pretty much all the books I read as a kid that I can still reread and not tire of, aside from Gary Paulsen's books. I never had to read The Hatchet in elementary or middle school, and from the sound of it, I should be glad. Oh, Walk Two Moons and the Sisterhood the Traveling Pants books are also good. |
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Jun 14 2009, 05:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 1,036 Joined: May 2009 Member No: 727,246 |
the chronicles of narnia [more specifically, the magician's nephew], the dog who wouldn't be, peter pan, dr. seuss... there are too many to recount.
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Jun 14 2009, 06:10 PM
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the name's mario Group: Official Member Posts: 1,270 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 656,520 |
Harry Potter
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Jun 14 2009, 09:42 PM
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DDR \\ I'm Dee :) Group: Mentor Posts: 8,662 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 384,020 |
Dr. Seuss, Holes, Goosebumps...
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