Today

[sartorias]

First, meme from mamculuna: take a selfie right now, the way you are, and post it. I was so happy to put a face to a name, I thought, okay, I'll do that, frowzy hair, ice cream splashed t-shirt, and all.

Comments

[ursule]

Ugh, yeah, I was traumatized by The Cat in the Hat (I was younger-- maybe three or four) and reacted with revulsion to any Seuss that was inflicted on me thereafter. Green Eggs and Ham was OK because I read it first.

[sartorias]

That was my sister's favorite. I don't remember why I didn't go for it.

[teenybuffalo]

Ohhhh Gawwwwddd, Bartholomew and the Oobleck still makes me cringe internally. A whole book about gobs of (radioactive?) green glop raining down out of the sky, and grown-up idiots who cheerfully play with it and -- gack -- eat it, while Bartholomew screams at them not to. There was one picture of the unfortunate idiot who ate some oobleck, vomiting green bubbles as, I assumed, his insides turned into green slime and dribbled out his mouth. This was terrible enough, but it was accompanied by the words, "Bartholomew laid the poor man down..." which frightened me into spasms as a child. To me, that meant that I straight-up just watched a guy die from eating oobleck. And the guy ate it with the happy, mindless abandon of a cat drinking antifreeze! *shudder* I've never gone back to see how much of this horror was actually in the book. I don't want to know

[sartorias]

Yeah, I did not like the oobleck either, for exactly the same reasons. I don't think I made it all the way through that one. I just reread the hats over and over.

[scallywag195]

I hated Dr Suess with a passion. My cousins got a Suess book every couple months through a book club. They totally creepy me out and as far as o know my cousins never read them either.

My daughter loved Old Hat, New Hat. I must have read it a hundred times to her. My hate relented a little after that.

[sartorias]

I never read that one! We only had those few I mentioned, between the close relatives and me.

[thistleingrey]

Oh, interesting--I didn't know Seuss had a hat one as well. I know the Berenstain Old Hat, New Hat because a friend handed down a board book to my child.

lynne says

[anonymous]

I hated the Cat in the Hat also but, speaking of justice, just loved Yertle the Turtle. Been thinking for the last decade or so that we should take up a collection and send one to every single member of Congress.

Re: lynne says

[sartorias]

*Excellent idea!!!*

[athenais]

I post selfies far too often to think anyone needs to see more of me...but it is delightful to see you again, camera-shy person! You look great!

I don't recall thinking much of the Dr. Seuss books aside from liking Green Eggs and Ham which had wordplay I enjoyed. I don't recall being a fan of Seuss, but I wasn't creeped out, either, so I must simply have been concentrating on the illustrations in the books I did read which I liked very much.

[sartorias]

Yeah, that makes sense!