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From [livejournal.com profile] catephoenix :  Earlier this week, KC Shaw started a meme about an early book memory and asked others to do the same.

I think the idea is to pick one book that is dear to your heart and stands out from early childhood.  I don't think I can pick just one.  A lot of my early childhood memories lie in books.  So I'm going to list, in order that I somewhat recall, the really special ones. 

A Little Golden book, The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown.  I could recall the pictures in this book quite clearly all through my life.  I have no idea how old I was when I first read it, only that for some reason it made an impression on me.  I think it was that the dog wore clothes and that whole idea of a dog that dressed and acted like a human really appealed to me.  Happily, several years ago in an antique store, I found that book.  It still delights me.

Wizard of Oz.  I don't think I ever read the rest of the books in the series, but I loved loved loved the adventures of Dorothy and Toto and her quest to return home. 

The Bobbsey Twins.  Read most of those.  Loved.

Nancy Drew.  Jeez, I wish I'd kept my collection.  My mother made me for the longest time, and finally I convinced her I'd never want the books again and we got rid of them.  STOOPID ME!  I think I had them all.  Or most of them.

Trixie Belden mysteries.  A Nancy Drew clone, sort of.  I'm re-collecting them again, although I haven't yet re-read them. 

A 2 book set of fairy tales.  Hans Christian Anderson and The Grimm Brothers, I believe.  I do still have those.  I used to play school with them, assigning myself stories to read.  In my childhood scrawl, I've labeled the stories as "English"  "History", etc. 

Reading was a big part of my life.  I've read as long as I can remember, immersing myself in those books, able to step into their worlds.  I grew up in the country without any kids as close neighbors, so spent a lot of my time with my nose in books.  They were my friends and my companions.  Mysteries were my first love, although I suppose you could say that my love of Fantasy began early on with that Little Golden book and the Wizard of Oz.  I went from Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden to gothic romance mysteries, then to Agatha Christie, then spy thrillers like Ludlum and Deighton, where I remained (with a brief aside to the Grand Dame of frothy regency romance, Georgette Heyer, which I still have a very large paperback collection of) until I read the first Wheel of Time book.  I may or may not have read one of Anne MacCaffrey's Pern books by then, I don't recall which came first, only that by the time I read Wheel of Time I was hooked and I've remained in the world of Fantasy ever since. 



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