by hiding a flashlight and the latest archie and jughead digest
(i think papa bought one for me at the grocery store and it started a habit)
under my bed.
once the house was quiet
(or i was sure mom and dad were downstairs and occupied)
i would read and read and read for hours and hours.
next, i obsessed over ramona quimby, nancy drew, and the babysitter's club.
then came
a
anne frank: the diary of a young girl
&
a tree grows in brooklyn
then
the classics.
how bout you?
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still have all my old nancy drew books - proudly displayed. i have some of my grandma's nancy drew books, printed on "war paper", even. i have no idea what happened to all my babysitters club books. LOVED a tree grows in brooklyn. to this day, i read every night before i fall asleep (with a booklight) - but sometimes its a fab trashy harlequin romance, just for fun:o)
Oh my goodness! I totally collect arichie's and betty and veronicas!
I am so glad someone else shares my love!
My love for reading started when Mom would read me and my sisters books as we lay in bed at night. I most vividly remember "The Wheel on the School". I read everything I could get my hands on- Babysitter's Club, Anastasia Krupnik, Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, everything Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume & Lois Lowry. Oh, and how can I forget the BFG and all things Roald Dahl.
I am not married and don't have kids, but 80% of the books on my shelf are juvenile/children's literature- I just love books!
Anne of Green Gables... ah, loved those.
But I indulged in about every Babysitters Club book made. Have your read What Claudia Wore? Hilarious. http://www.whatclaudiawore.com/
i still read archie and jughead when i'm standing in line at the grocery store.
(still scandalized about archie choosing veronica)
kind of weird. but i just can't help myself.
oh yeah, oh yeah. I know exactly what you are talking about. I just heard that they are re-releasing the babysitters club. It's like my childhood coming back!
well i'm pretty sure i read all the nancy drews & babysitter's club books. my mom used to have to yard sale search every saturday for new ones :) and then i read the work & the glory. i never read shakespeare until college. i love me some books :)
Judy Blume, Nancy Drew, Ramona Quimby loved those as a kid. When I was older I read Jack Weyland which are cute and all but gave me the wrong impression about love as a Mormon girl. If I can help it my daughters won't read them. Now I'll read anything and I hate not having a book to read.
I just laughed out loud because I ALWAYS read Archie comics & Babysitters Club & Nancy Drew... And I, too, used a flashlight--only I'd sit on the floor of my dark closet and put the flashlight standing upright in the middle... I called it my "fort." Oh, to be eight again. :)
I would read Nancy Drew until my eyes were bloodshot. I also loved Judy Blume and Laura Ingalls. One of my all time favorite books as a kid (because it scared the pants off me) was titled Down A Dark Hall.
As far as the classics, I will never forget Where The Red Fern Grows. I was in the fourth grade and that book changed reading for me forever. After that I had a crush on Huck Finn, wished I had the name Meg and wanted so badly for someone to tell me that against their better judgment, they were in love with me!
Judy Blume ruled my world when I was a kid! "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret" and "Blubber" were my favorites. :)
I will read anything I can get my hands on. As I kid I loved mysteries.
I read pretty much everything! I liked Nancy Drew, Little House in the Prairie, Sweet Valley University (when I was in grade SIX, oops)
Charlotte's Web was my 1st "big" book, in 2nd grade. Then it was Little House on the Prairie, Beverly Cleary, and everything else! Never did Nancy Drew.
Now I have to read one, or more, Jane Austen's a year to make it a good one....and watch them all.
I LOVED Archie too!!!
Ahh, Archie! I remember reading those in the summertime as a kid. I too loved the Babysitter's Club--I secretly wanted to have diabetes so I could be like Stacey. (What was I thinking?) My earliest favorite book memories, though, were Laura Ingalls Wilder.
For me it was Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley Twins. I talked to my activity day girls about those books the other day and they had no idea what I was talking about. It's a shame.
i loved the "Caitlin" series...Caitlin Ryan, rich girl who gets the guy and loves to be spoiled and ride her horses. they were soooooooo good back when i was 11.
I was obsessed with Nancy Drew for a long time, as well as L.M. Montgomery, Brian Jacques, & C.S. Lewis. My all time favorite junior book is The Ordinary Princess. And now I'm addicted to all things books.
Oh! I forgot "The Little Princess" & "The Secret Garden"! The best of the bunch! :)
I always read the Ramona books. I also liked the Box Car Children!
anything by Shel Silverstein!!
I LOVE A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! Seriously one of my favorites!
Count me in for Loving Archie and the gang!
Those are some of my favorite memories too :) Except I cleared a special spot in the bottom of my closet for late night reading. It had a lamp and everything!
The entire Anne of Green Gables series. :-)
I think I read all of those books that everyone else mentioned - except after the flashlight was confiscated - I read by the red LED light of my digital alarm clock. I credit that clock to my glasses today, and many happy hours reading in the dark.
Funny you should write this. I recently posted about my fondness for books.
I'll never forget that summer after 8th grade when I found my sister's ratty old AP paperback copy of Jane Eyre and recognizing that something really great had happened to me as a reader because I could actually understand it. I am grateful for Ramona Quimby and The Babysitters' Club and Lucy Maude Montgomery and Laura Ingalls Wilder and The Witch at Blackbird Pond and Roald Dahl and Sarah Plain and Tall and the Wrinkle in Time series (and, and, and) for getting me there.
Books bring me joy and that has made all the difference in my life.
I crawled under my covers with a flashlight, and it was not unusual for me to read an entire book in one night. Nancy Drew (I had dozens of them. Trixie Belden. Superfudge. The Secret Garden. Little Women then started my love affair with classics which has never ended. I always knew someday my geekishness would be cool to someone else!
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