Re: what are you reading?

Same here Melody....books were my escape out of my dysfunctional family life. I lived my life in books. I would read until 3:00 in the morning and my mother would come in my room and yell at me to turn the lights out and go to BED! I was an advanced reader in school too. When I lived in Enid, Oklahoma and received my first library card, I thought I had died and gone to Heaven. Then we moved to a more rural area...and no big library. BUT the book mobile came to our school and I was the first in line and checked out the maximum amount of books every single time. I can't imagine life without books. I was reading to my children at a very, very young age. I think that makes a big difference. Two of my three children do not like to read now (I can't understand that at all) but the one who looks the most like me (Brianna) is a book worm. And my stepdaughter (the youngest) has her nose in a book all the time.


Jesse Rene' Bell
Claremore, OK
Zone 6



From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] what are you reading?
Date: Thu,  4 Dec 2003 06:47:34 -0500 (EST)

Reading is something so basic to my life that I fear for my sanity
should I ever lose my sight...it seems to me that no one ever had to
really show me how to read...I distinctly remember picking up the Dick
and Jane books in first grade and somehow what was on those pages just
made sense to me...one of the truly memorable moments of my life was
getting my first library card at the public library a few weeks later. I
will never forget the intense feeling of awe and sheer joy that card
gave me...literally a passport out of the hell my childhood was into as
many worlds of magic as I could read...by middle of first grade I had
been moved into the third grade reading classes, by the time I hit 7th
grade they no longer had enough for me to read and so put me in an
independent study program...it was great since it meant I had access to
any book in the public library system I wanted to read. Finished most of
the "classics" long before I hit high school...so it seems strange to me
that these days most of my reading consists of the trashiest romance
novels I can find...the more lurid sex the better! :-) But truth be
told, I'll read just about anything I can lay my hands on...I love
murder mysteries, anything to do with serial killers, science fiction,
romance, classics, etc...I guess I'm just an indiscriminate reader. A
couple of years ago, one of our local thrift stores went out of business
and the owner gave away all of the paperbacks in the store...in one
hour, I carried out over 500 romance novels...took me less than a year
and a half to read them all...truly wish I'd had time to make a second
stop before she closed her store for good. Right now I'm reading Thomas
Gifford's The Assassini, a murder mystery that concerns the Catholic
Church.


Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Wed 12/03, Judy L Browning < judybrowning@lewiston.com > wrote:
From: Judy L Browning [mailto: judybrowning@lewiston.com]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:49:57 -0800
Subject: Re: [CHAT] what are you reading?

Gene, we must be related somehow.<br>In 3rd grade, my desk was right
next to the "library", four short shelves of<br>books. While the teacher
was diverted by classmates, I read them all, at the<br>expense of basic
math skills. I never could stand to stay on the page when<br>we read
aloud.<br>Judy B<br>z6 Idaho, 40s & rainy this week.<br><br>-----
Original Message -----<br>From: "Gene Bush"
<genebush@otherside.com><br>To: <gardenchat@hort.net><br>Sent:
Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:49 AM<br>Subject: Re: [CHAT] what are you
reading?<br><br><br>> Judy,<br>> A single book by Burroughs was in a box
of books given to my parents<br>> when I was a pre teen. Very much a
mix... Arabian nights, Bullfinch<br>> mythology, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew,
Verne, De Maupassant. It was like dying<br>> and going to heaven. Took
the box and stayed hidden all summer reading it<br>> all. The Tarzan
book was one of a series and I remember being very<br>> disappointed at
the time over the "to be continued". And this summer I got<br>> to
thinking about it once more. Finally began looking and the Science<br>>
Fiction Book of the Month club had the three in the services in one
book<br>> reprinted this past month. I took it as a "sign" and ordered a
copy.<br>> A bit later when I went to a boy's home there was a library
just up<br>the<br>> hall from me..... cool. Our very own library and
study hall.<br>> Gene E. Bush<br>> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc<br>>
www.munchkinnursery.com<br>> genebush@munchkinnursery.com<br>> Zone 6/5
Southern Indiana<br>><br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>><br>> > I
can't remember if I read Burroughs or Verne first. I was introduced
to<br>> > both by the bookmobile that dropped by the school every 2
weeks. Tthe<br>four<br>> > books allowed were read & reread long before
it was due again. Oh, the<br>> > anticipation. The best thing was it
always had a different selection of<br>> > books.<br>><br>>
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