We've been a little quiet on Write Brainers lately, so I thought I'd toss out a new question:
What are some of the books that you read during your K-12 years that have (for good or even not so good reason) really stuck with you?
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Question of the Week: Favorite Books, Blast From the Past Edition
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Gee...this is tough. There are just so many. Let's see, I loved lots of the commonly thought about works for children and for high school students (The Little House books, Curious George, Amelia Bedelia, the works of Beverly Clearly and Judy Blume, The Chronicles of Narnia, Dr. Seuss, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Miracle Worker, Of Mice and Men). When I was a senior in high school I hated The Catcher in the Rye, but loved the fourth book of Gulliver's Travels. (Forget the first; it's seriously overrated, but the fourth is some heavy duty, even vicious, commentary on human arrogance.) As you can see, my thoughts are disordered when it comes to books. I'm all over the place. But I also loved (and recently tracked down) a couple novels less commonly known--Allegra Maud Goldman, and They Loved to Laugh, both of which I read over and over again when I was in grades 5-8.
The best part of growing up, though, and getting beyond the k-12 years, was discovering that I really did like Shakespeare. I HATED him all through high school (and even college) then fell madly in love with him at around age 26, just a few years before I discovered I had a passion for the satire of Jane Austen as well!
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