Boring Weekend Recap
source Monday, we meet again. You come on like lightning you saucy wench. I hope you all had a great weekend and managed to keep cool. We got up to 96 at different times so that's...fun. I have to start with these two cards I got in the mail Thursday night. The big paper one is from the friends we gifted our old grill to. The Mr and I cracked up at the hot dog 'thanks' on what is an exact image of the grill along with a lovely note from the Mrs of the couple thanking us profusely as they didn't have money to replace their grill that was falling apart. The other is from my friend I've known since 1988 and he doesn't send out cards much so this was a surprise. It was him telling us how lucky he is to have us a friends and how much we mean to him and he thought we should know. It made me cry for sure (and then of course check in to make sure he was okay. He is.) Obviously any kind of communication is appreciated but t...
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.
ReplyDeleteChoose Your Own Adventure books were so much fun!
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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