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.”
Gosh I loved all those Ramona books when I was a kid, same with The Little House on the Prairie Books. I am unfamiliar with A Handful of Time, will look it up - and I tried to get into Anne of Green Gables series and just couldn't but always feel bad about that because so many people cite those books as ones that really resonated for them in their childhood. My daughter loved "A little Princess" which is one I liked very much when I was her age too.
It's funny I remember reading a little bit of "Little House in the Big Woods" aloud together with my daughter - I hadn't read it since I was a kid - and as an adult I was struck by how truly, truly isolated they were and also all the labour - OMG I was exhausted just reading about chopping wood; hunting, butchering, skinning, salting and storing animals for food, planting vegetables, doing laundry on rocks, all stuff I totally breezed over as a kid.
Same! I can’t think about Little House on the Prairie without also picturing the opening credits of the tv series, which I also loved. Maybe I should have tried that on my kids instead!
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?
Your last line about the beige made me laugh out loud. Yes you're right, I'm suddenly feeling the beige. Maybe the appeal is that it's a little reminiscent of old paper.
I read HP book by book as it came out over the course of however many years. I remember waiting in line at a bookstore (I think it was McNally Jackson - a great one to visit when you get to NY one day https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/) for hours in the dead of night, waiting for it to open at midnight so that I could buy the last book in the series. My husband and I both got our own copies because neither of us could wait till the other finished so that we could begin. That's the only time in memory I recall seeing people, dozens and dozens of adults and children alike, walking around with big old tomes of a book on the subway or tucked beneath their arms. You and I share the same opinion of JKR.
Do tell, if you don't mind sharing, what your fave manga and novel are...TBH I'm not even sure I could answer that myself. It's hard to narrow down. I haven't read enough manga series to have a favorite - the only one I completed was The Promised Neverland - which I thoroughly enjoyed.
You're right about narrowing down your favorite book to a single one. That's why my response is going to be long HAHAHAHA. BUT! I define a favorite book by how many times I reread it, how many times I go back to it and still, to this day, gives the same magical effect as when I first read it. There's really just one: East of Eden by John Stenbeick. I think I read it four times now and I'm eager for the next time the urge hits me again. STILL! Being avid readers that we are, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the others that are not on second place, but even higher than 2, so very close to 1. They are Black Boy by Richard Wright, a collection of poems called Crush by Richard Siken, LOTR The Two Towers by Tolkien and a Nonfiction, Kilometer Zero by Wilfredo Pascual.
As for manga, I prefer anime and only ever go to manga for "emergencies." like when I cannot wait for the next episode of One Piece. I do however have 2 favorites! Favorite manga (and anime) is Mushishi and another is a manga called Omoide Emanon! Check them out if you can!
I have not read East of Eden though it's for sure on my TBR list because I loved The Grapes of Wrath - though I've only read it twice. I need to give my favorite book list a revisit as many I haven't read in years. Lately I think of favorite authors more so than their specific books in which case James Baldwin (he and Wright's work and relationship are worthy of examination - also I need to reread Black Boy), Toni Morrison, and David Sedaris immediately come to mind.
East of Eden is one of Oprah's Book Club selection. Her book club was also part of the reason I was introduced to so many good reads! Let me read Grapes of Wrath (because I haven't read that one) and you can read East of Eden. We'll compare! But please do give me time. My TBR is atrociously long now hahahaha :D
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. 🤣🤦🏽♀️
I love Herridge too. Just a particularly good haul there this summer! That’s where I picked up both White and Kincaid. And a whole stack of others!
Come to think of it I don’t think I ever read Roots but somehow maybe I think I read Queen 🤔 hmmm maybe I ought to revisit those.
And for sure I remember reading It. I’ve been reading King off and on for so many years but my first introduction into his work was definitely in middle school and definitely creepy as hell. I couldn’t get enough! I cannot believe you read that under a bridge by a pond in secret!! That sounds sooooo scary Tiffany!!!!!! 🎈
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.
I've been careless in the past, and I'm much more mindful about holding on to specific books that I love. The books I cherish now are mostly ones that were given to me as a child. Books my mom saved, like an enormous Little Golden Books Treasury or books that belonged to my grandparents. I have a Spanish - English Dictionary that my grandfather won as some sort of school prize and a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays that belonged to him. That they were important to him, make them more valuable to me.
On a totally separate note, I love how Marie Kondo's name has become a verb! Can't wait to read more about your visit back to Japan.
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🤣.
I too devoured Nancy Drew books as a child. I collect what is considered the original books … numbers 1-56. I have almost all of them. Every time I find one I read it. Such classics.
Yes mostly yellow/buff spines. All published prior to 1979. I wrote about my collection in June. At the time I had 4 newer shiny covered books but have since found and replaced all.
Oh Natalie, I loved the Nancy Drew books when I was a kid as well! I was absolutely obsessed with them. I read a whole bunch of other spin-off/related stuff like the Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins and the BoxCar Children stories because of Nancy Drew but none of them compared.
Me too!!! Loved Nancy Drew…and prior to that anything by Enid Blyton. I hope I can get my kids into those at some point and find an excuse to re-read it through them! 🤩
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!
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.”
Gosh I loved all those Ramona books when I was a kid, same with The Little House on the Prairie Books. I am unfamiliar with A Handful of Time, will look it up - and I tried to get into Anne of Green Gables series and just couldn't but always feel bad about that because so many people cite those books as ones that really resonated for them in their childhood. My daughter loved "A little Princess" which is one I liked very much when I was her age too.
It's funny I remember reading a little bit of "Little House in the Big Woods" aloud together with my daughter - I hadn't read it since I was a kid - and as an adult I was struck by how truly, truly isolated they were and also all the labour - OMG I was exhausted just reading about chopping wood; hunting, butchering, skinning, salting and storing animals for food, planting vegetables, doing laundry on rocks, all stuff I totally breezed over as a kid.
Same! I can’t think about Little House on the Prairie without also picturing the opening credits of the tv series, which I also loved. Maybe I should have tried that on my kids instead!
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!
Your last line about the beige made me laugh out loud. Yes you're right, I'm suddenly feeling the beige. Maybe the appeal is that it's a little reminiscent of old paper.
I read HP book by book as it came out over the course of however many years. I remember waiting in line at a bookstore (I think it was McNally Jackson - a great one to visit when you get to NY one day https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/) for hours in the dead of night, waiting for it to open at midnight so that I could buy the last book in the series. My husband and I both got our own copies because neither of us could wait till the other finished so that we could begin. That's the only time in memory I recall seeing people, dozens and dozens of adults and children alike, walking around with big old tomes of a book on the subway or tucked beneath their arms. You and I share the same opinion of JKR.
Do tell, if you don't mind sharing, what your fave manga and novel are...TBH I'm not even sure I could answer that myself. It's hard to narrow down. I haven't read enough manga series to have a favorite - the only one I completed was The Promised Neverland - which I thoroughly enjoyed.
You're right about narrowing down your favorite book to a single one. That's why my response is going to be long HAHAHAHA. BUT! I define a favorite book by how many times I reread it, how many times I go back to it and still, to this day, gives the same magical effect as when I first read it. There's really just one: East of Eden by John Stenbeick. I think I read it four times now and I'm eager for the next time the urge hits me again. STILL! Being avid readers that we are, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the others that are not on second place, but even higher than 2, so very close to 1. They are Black Boy by Richard Wright, a collection of poems called Crush by Richard Siken, LOTR The Two Towers by Tolkien and a Nonfiction, Kilometer Zero by Wilfredo Pascual.
As for manga, I prefer anime and only ever go to manga for "emergencies." like when I cannot wait for the next episode of One Piece. I do however have 2 favorites! Favorite manga (and anime) is Mushishi and another is a manga called Omoide Emanon! Check them out if you can!
I have not read East of Eden though it's for sure on my TBR list because I loved The Grapes of Wrath - though I've only read it twice. I need to give my favorite book list a revisit as many I haven't read in years. Lately I think of favorite authors more so than their specific books in which case James Baldwin (he and Wright's work and relationship are worthy of examination - also I need to reread Black Boy), Toni Morrison, and David Sedaris immediately come to mind.
One Piece is going to outlive us all :-)
East of Eden is one of Oprah's Book Club selection. Her book club was also part of the reason I was introduced to so many good reads! Let me read Grapes of Wrath (because I haven't read that one) and you can read East of Eden. We'll compare! But please do give me time. My TBR is atrociously long now hahahaha :D
Trust me my TBR is ridiculous! No worries! No rush. So should I do Tolkien or Steinbeck first?
Steinbeck! Happy Reading! :D
Ahhh books...among the best ideas that humans have had.📚📖❤️
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. 🤣🤦🏽♀️
I love Herridge too. Just a particularly good haul there this summer! That’s where I picked up both White and Kincaid. And a whole stack of others!
Come to think of it I don’t think I ever read Roots but somehow maybe I think I read Queen 🤔 hmmm maybe I ought to revisit those.
And for sure I remember reading It. I’ve been reading King off and on for so many years but my first introduction into his work was definitely in middle school and definitely creepy as hell. I couldn’t get enough! I cannot believe you read that under a bridge by a pond in secret!! That sounds sooooo scary Tiffany!!!!!! 🎈
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.
I've been careless in the past, and I'm much more mindful about holding on to specific books that I love. The books I cherish now are mostly ones that were given to me as a child. Books my mom saved, like an enormous Little Golden Books Treasury or books that belonged to my grandparents. I have a Spanish - English Dictionary that my grandfather won as some sort of school prize and a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays that belonged to him. That they were important to him, make them more valuable to me.
On a totally separate note, I love how Marie Kondo's name has become a verb! Can't wait to read more about your visit back to Japan.
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🤣.
I too devoured Nancy Drew books as a child. I collect what is considered the original books … numbers 1-56. I have almost all of them. Every time I find one I read it. Such classics.
That’s impressive! We’re talking the hardcovers with the mostly yellow spine right?! Definitely a worthwhile collection!
Yes mostly yellow/buff spines. All published prior to 1979. I wrote about my collection in June. At the time I had 4 newer shiny covered books but have since found and replaced all.
Oh Natalie, I loved the Nancy Drew books when I was a kid as well! I was absolutely obsessed with them. I read a whole bunch of other spin-off/related stuff like the Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins and the BoxCar Children stories because of Nancy Drew but none of them compared.
Me too!!! Loved Nancy Drew…and prior to that anything by Enid Blyton. I hope I can get my kids into those at some point and find an excuse to re-read it through them! 🤩
Enid Blyton is new to me. Did a quick google search and amazed I've never heard of her.
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!
I'm glad you liked it Kevin! Looking forward to your take on “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” 😀