tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post2885848793436512780..comments2020-08-22T09:23:05.149-07:00Comments on Ruminations of a Remembrancer: Books I Read as a Child: Influence or Reflection of My Personality?Lorinda J Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-62702050307037709802013-07-20T17:35:41.298-07:002013-07-20T17:35:41.298-07:00Hi, Lisa! I agree - it's great fun to read ou...Hi, Lisa! I agree - it's great fun to read out loud to somebody. When my neighbor's girls were little, I used to buy them books at Christmas and birthdays, and sometimes I would get to read them to them. I enjoyed it a lot! There are slews of Oz books; after L. Frank Baum died, other people continued to write them. I have the basic Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz and I have the Patchwork Girl, but I think my others are mostly later authors.Lorinda J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-62672577888086378582013-07-20T15:54:33.789-07:002013-07-20T15:54:33.789-07:00I always loved the Oz books and am now in the proc...I always loved the Oz books and am now in the process of reading them aloud to my youngest child (though he could read them on his own - it's more fun this way :-) I used to save my money to purchase them, and have several left from my childhood. Though when my older kids were little I bought the entire set one Christmas - I'm so glad I did.<br />Lovely post.Lisa D.B. Taylorhttp://www.neebeep.com/itsownsweetwillneebeepc/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-35598438354032274592013-07-19T07:06:16.026-07:002013-07-19T07:06:16.026-07:00Sorry - posted too quick! That last sentence shoul...Sorry - posted too quick! That last sentence should read: ... for the same reason - my mother furnished me with such a positive view of the Bard.Lorinda J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-9445587137563946272013-07-19T07:03:03.772-07:002013-07-19T07:03:03.772-07:00Hi,Vanessa! You're welcome to write a blog po...Hi,Vanessa! You're welcome to write a blog post in my comments anytime! LOL This does make an interesting topic, doesn't it?<br />I can't help you with Dilly the Duck, I'm afraid - I don't think I ever read it. There was one book I read from the library and I loved it, but I remember very little about it. I don't even know the title, but it was about the adventures of a lost gray cat with a black tip on its tail. I've never been able to find it again - too little information. At the age of nine I wasn't keeping notes on the library books I checked out! But that's another instance of a story told realistically from the viewpoint of an animal.<br />I never liked overtly moralistic books. There's a series I can't remember the name of - it was one of those on the table the years I read fifty books in school. It featured a woman who instructed children in how to behave. For example, a child who won't wash grows vegetables all over his body. Ugh!<br />Oh, Silas Marner! I liked that, too! Of course, my mother taught it. And I guess I liked Shakespeare for the same readon - my mother funished me with such a positive view of the Bard!Lorinda J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-70184940219572138082013-07-19T00:01:15.533-07:002013-07-19T00:01:15.533-07:00Very much along the lines of the nature vs nurture...Very much along the lines of the nature vs nurture debate! I should imagine both come into play in terms of your eventual choices on what to write about.<br /><br />My reading was far less sophisticated than yours. The earliest book that I remember loving as a young child was called 'Dilly the Duck', I've tried to find it again, but my searches bring up another book with the same name which isn't the same one. It was about a very kind duck who had everything she wanted, but she was so kind, she kept giving everything away to others who didn't have things, she even gave away her children to other childless ducks! And she ended up with nothing. But as I remember, her children came back in the end because they missed her. I guess it has a similar message to The Giving Tree.<br /><br />As I got older I liked quite mainstream books about kids that I could relate to. The school-based ones, and I read a lot of books of stories about dancing, because I loved dancing; there was a set of books about a girl called Gemma that I probably read more than any other. I also liked quite silly/funny books, some of the titles I remember are 'The Fattypuffs and the Thinifers', 'How to Eat Fried Worms' and 'McBroom's Wonderful One Acre Farm'. When I was about 11, I discovered Judy Blume and that was my main reading fodder for quite a while!<br /><br />My first appreciation of anything I would class as good literature wasn't until I was 15 when we read Silas Marner at school, and I really liked that, and have read it two or three times since. We also did Julius Caesar, but I didn't like that at all.<br /><br />Now that you've written this post, I'm going to ponder on how much I think my early reading choices influenced what I like to write about.<br /><br />I've practically written a whole blog post in the comment box here, ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-784933061209700602013-07-18T13:40:39.650-07:002013-07-18T13:40:39.650-07:00Actually, I loved the Marguerite Henry books, too....Actually, I loved the Marguerite Henry books, too. I especially liked King of the Wind, about the Godolphin Arabian. I wasn't particularly taken with Misty. Again, it seems to be the exotic setting that attracted me, and I was also much taken by the beautiful illustrations. I think I read The Black Stallion, but I have no memory of it. I did read Black Beauty and hated it, I think because the horse's suffering is quite graphic and it dies at the end (isn't that true?) Sham in King of the Wind is also forced to be a cart horse, but that one has a happy ending.Lorinda J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985567506994751475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843833519373801339.post-42795994207013725512013-07-18T10:31:29.350-07:002013-07-18T10:31:29.350-07:00Quite the reader! I know I read a lot, but specifi...Quite the reader! I know I read a lot, but specifics are sparse except for all the Walter Farley books (Black Stallion) and Marguerite Henry (Misty of Chincoteague). Did I mention I loved horses?<br />Cellophane Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08166797508899835493noreply@blogger.com