Comments | maeve66: Day 279: One memory I have, or story of same

maeve66

Day 279: One memory I have, or story of same

Aug 28, 2012 19:02

Strong memories are interesting. Since I like to write, I have written about a lot of strong memories, whether in high school or college or as an adult, in journals or in blogging. I am going to try to think of something I haven't written about before ( Read more... )

books, school, meme

Comments 6

springheel_jack August 29 2012, 02:48:42 UTC

PEI's pretty

maeve66 August 29 2012, 03:40:26 UTC

Yeah. I fucking love Canada, all of it, but particularly Quebec and the Maritimes.

I wanted this flag to be Quebecois yet student revolt-y. Hmm.

silsbee329 August 29 2012, 03:31:00 UTC

What a terrific entry. This brought back a lot of memories for me, too.

I remember my school librarian. Her name was Mrs. Perkins. She had bug eyes, and she had a reputation for being mean, but I don't really think she was, looking back. And boy could she read aloud! We used to have library class a few times a week, and she would read sections of chapter books to us. She was very good with the voices, as a librarian should be, I think. ;)

And it's interesting that you remember being so attached to picture books. I have a pretty sketchy memory, and I can't remember a time when I didn't love chaptered books. I miss some of those old books, the ones that haven't really stood the test of time, but probably should have. I snapped up a few of the ones I remembered back when eBay first started. There was one called The Chicken Pox Papers that I particularly loved. I have it now, but I don't want to read it because I'm worried it won't be the same. Silly ( ... )

maeve66 August 29 2012, 03:42:11 UTC

Shogun was a miniseries I loved so much that I now own the entire thing on DVD. And not long after I watched that miniseries as an eleven year old (around there), I got that more-than-a-thousand-page novel and read it, and have re-read it... easily more than twenty times.

silsbee329 August 29 2012, 03:44:02 UTC

Well, that is a strong recommendation for me to try the book, or at least to watch it again. :)

maeve66 August 29 2012, 03:44:38 UTC

Also, I buy ALL the books I remember loving, in hardback, used. Right now I am trying to get a trilogy by Alberta Constant Wilson, called Those Miller Girls, The Motoring Millers, and Doesn't Anybody Care About Lou Emma Miller?, which series is set in Kansas in the 1900s, e.g. between 1900 and 1910, about a widowed college professor and his daughters. I LOVED it. It will not have gotten worse over time, I know that.