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Oh, I love this question! I reread many of my childhood faves to my kids when they were the right age for them. Top of mind: Anne of Green Gables, A Handful of Time, and all of the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary. I tried Little House on the Prairie on both kids but they both declared it “boring.”

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Sep 22, 2022·edited Sep 22, 2022Liked by ZM Spalter

So THAT'S why I haven't been receiving your recent posts properly. They're in the promotions folder! I visit Impervious many times anyway but still it would be nice to get a ring when you post something new. So I'll do the contacts add. I'm actually subscribed to myself. So I'll see what my post looks like when people receive it, I fall to the promotions folder as well!

Since I run a general store myself, I think I'll push one book for now and read Convenience Store Woman. But Silmarillion is firmly my before-sleep book. I get to imagine more about that world even after I close my eyes.

I love the concept of tsundoku! It can attack you sometimes, can't it? The fact that we can't know everything. But still we try.

Personally, I owe a lot of my reading to the Harry Potter series. Shame what's happening with the writer but I focus on the work far more than the maker. Like your Leo Comment, I wouldn't have cared if I met the author of my most favorite manga or novel!

I'm a late lover of books. Our parents never introduced literary books to us. But it's all well and good now. I have books on my phone, laptop, shelves, tablet! I literally have 4 libraries!

P.S. we're both loving the beige background at the moment! I do love my pink, black and purple backgrounds. But this beige one has become really popular. Kind of old school and neat-looking don't you think?

Lovely writing as always!

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Sep 14, 2022Liked by ZM Spalter

Ahhh books...among the best ideas that humans have had.📚📖❤️

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Sep 14, 2022Liked by ZM Spalter

You’ve always been my go-to person for book recommendations and this list does not disappoint!! I feel like my obsession with books was re-introduced after our visit to Herridge.

As a kid I remember loving anything by R.L. Stine, my favorite was The Secret Bedroom. I remember reading it over and over again. My next memory was finding Roots and IT at a garage sale. Oof, those were some heavy reads for being so young, I was around 10-12. I never finished Roots but IT I couldn’t put down. I remember hiding under a bridge at the pond to read it in secret and to be very afraid. 🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

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I completely understand this! Do you also have a specific attachment to specific copies of a book? The way that a certain copy that you've had for years is dog eared and flips easily to your favorite pages. Like you, I try to Marie Kondo my book collection regularly, but there are definitely books (an old college copy of The Sun Also Rises comes to mind) that I will not part with! I can buy another copy, but it will not be the same.

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So many interesting book rec's! I'll have to get some of these from the library (book buying is my weakness and I need to support my library more 😅). I think my favorite book from childhood I need to re-read is the Nancy Drew series! I devoured that series and wanted to be Nancy so bad in the 5th grade🤣.

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Loved all of this. I was recommended “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by one of the community members for The New Fatherhood and it went straight to the top of the list. And I also had no idea EB White was the “Elements of Style” White either!

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