Because I'm that desperate for something to write about I am going to fill in the Friday Five this week even though I don't remember half the answers. But also it has to do with reading, which is like totally my thing. ;)
1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
When I was a very young child I had this Golden Book which was called the Forest Hotel. It was the only story I wanted read to me at night, and I wanted it read every night, at least once. My entire family could recite that book without even looking at it. I'm talking grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins....everyone. :)
2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
I don't plan to ever have children (evil beasts that they are), but I have always loved the book Harriet the Spy, so when kids I know get to that age, I'm going to make sure that they read it. My cousin Ashley is getting close to that age, so she'll probably be the next to get it. I reccomend it to people in the store all the time as well.
Also, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. I loved those books when I was a kid.
3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
No.
4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
I was in kindergarden I think, which I guess makes me about 5. I don't remember if I knew how to read before that or not. It was over 20 years ago after all, those particular moments are not burned into my brain as memories.
5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you?
I actually don't remember what the first grown up book was that I read. If what the other kids in school were reading was any indication, I was reading far above all the other kids for a very long time. I can recall that I read the Hobbit for English class in grade 8. I remember reading the trashiest romances you could buy all summer between grade 8 & 9. But I'm fairly certain that I'd been reading 'grown up' books for longer than that.
I seem to remember my mom giving me this huge hardcover book and telling me to read it one summer. At the time it seemed like a real treat, so perhaps that was the first real book I read. I'm not sure how old I was though, but the book was a hardcover compilation of half of the books in the Belgariad series by David Eddings.
Posted by Michelle at July 4, 2003 06:29 PM