What I'm Reading This Week #35
Howdy do and happy last Friday of August! I hope you had a good week and if your weather was like ours, it was FINALLY under 93 degrees. Don't get me wrong, I know sweater weather isn't here but it was nice to not have the AC working overtime (set to 76) starting at 11am every day! It was nice to not walk out to water the garden and walk into a wall of humidity so I will take what I can get. Speaking of which: With this 3" San Marzano , I shall be able to make enough sauce to cover 7.3 spaghetti noodles. 😒 Now let's get to: How to Stock Your Pantry for Quick & Easy Meals in Minutes (Ooh, I need to crockpot some black beans for some sweet potato black bean burritos.) What Happens to Your Body When You Start Lifting Weights After 50 (Stay strong, sharp, and independent—no matter when you start.) Ditching This Common Food Type Could Double Weight Loss, According To Scientists (It makes sense and I've started to cut back on them for ...
My brothers had a huge collection of Hardy Boys books but I just was not much of a reader when I was that age. It wasn't until 1989 when the Stephen King book Pet Sematary caught my eye in a store that I bought it, read it and loved it and this was just before the movie came out. Then I was hooked at least on Stephen King books. I read them all just about. Now I read all the time. I read more than just horror books too. Never in a million years would I have thought I would not only read, but thoroughly enjoy, a book about the Dalai Lama and his beliefs on how to be joyful but I just finished that recently and it was timely for ths pandemic. So I guess I was a late bloomer where reading is concerned but sure glad I eventually got into it.
ReplyDeleteI really liked RL Stine in my middle school years. When I was younger I liked when the teacher would read from The Chronicles of Narnia or Paddington Bear. I also remember getting mystery books from the scholastic sheet you could order from where you got to make certain choices in the book, which would have you go to a certain section of the book and you'd get a different ending. That was very cool for a young kid.
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ReplyDeleteI've always been a reader, and I've passed that on to my son too. I loved Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, there was another girl detective series that was similar but with a younger protagonist that I enjoyed. I read a lot of horse books and went through a Jack London phase and an unfortunate Sweet Valley High phase. I remember one year I went to the book fair at school right before Christmas and bought books for everyone - that was when I realized not everyone reads like I do.
I haven't been reading much lately, I don't know why, but I usually read almost a book a week and sometimes more. Like your Mr., I'm a big Stephen King fan. My first was "It" in 8th grade. I also read a wide variety of genres now but my favorites are urban fantasy and mysteries. I'm not much of a horror reader beyond King and his son Joe Hill.
I liked Babysitter's Club, Sweet Valley High, Nancy Drew, sometimes Goose Bumps, but really I'd read anything I could get my hands on. We didn't have tv until I was 17, and I read a ton to keep myself occupied. Now, I like mysteries. Joe Pickett, Jack Reacher, that sort of thing. I also liked the Walt Longmire series.
ReplyDeleteI was a voracious reader when I was a child, usually one of the top 5 readers in my elementary school as measured by the number of books read in a year. I read a lot of Babysitter's Club, Sweet Valley Junior High/High, Nancy Drew, RL Stine books, Christopher Pike books, the Anne of Green Gables series, Judy Bloom's books, and many, many more. Books were always a great gift for me. And if I was given money as a present more often than not it would be spent on books. Our local library would sell used books once per year at $0.10/soft cover and $0.50/hard cover and the local used book stores would hold annual inventory reduction sales where I would score a lot of my reading material for the next year.
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