What I'm Reading This Week #32
Howdy do y'all and how's it hanging this week? It feels weird to not have had people traipsing in and out of the house all week. I'll take it though. We haven't had any storms yet, of course so no sigh of relief just yet but fingers crossed. What I can happily update is in using the moisture meter against the wall yesterday, is the off the chart over 99 number we got before that set off alarms? It's now down to 24 and technically considered dry but those baseboards aren't going back up until we've had some storms. I can't tell you how relieving it is to have that meter so we know the moisture is going down in a place we couldn't see unless we cut out a huge piece of drywall. Tuesday I did some zinnia pruning as that task got ignored for two weeks because of the aforementioned traipsers (new word). It'll be interesting to see if rando zinnias start popping up due to the petals that have seeds attached falling off. I was working besid...
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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