“On December 3rd, 2011, take the child in your life to a bookstore. Watch
his face light up as you give him free access, not just to a new book,
but to tomorrow.”
And if you don’t have a child handy, take your inner child.
Remember the magic of bookstores?
Yeah. That.
Books I loved as a child: Sam and the Firefly
What about you?
Poster available here.
First book: Leviathan, by Scott Westerfeld
Second book: Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld
Third book: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, by Gordon Dahlquist
Bonus books (read before the challenge began): Soulless, Changeless and Blameless, by Gail Carriger
First book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle)
Second book: Sick of Shadows: An Edwardian Murder Mystery (Edwardian Murder Mysteries)
Third book: Snobbery with Violence: An Edwardian Murder Mystery (Edwardian Murder Mysteries)
Fourth book: Grave Goods (Mistress of the Art of Death)
Fifth book: Country Dance
Sixth book: The Dragon's Bride
Seventh book: Hazard
Eighth book: A Most Unsuitable Man (Signet Historical Romance)
Bonus books (the year isn't up, yet!):
The Game of Kings (Lymond Chronicles, 1), by Dorothy Dunnett
The Affinity Bridge (Newbury & Hobbes Investigations), by George Mann
My daughter’s favorite place in the world is a bookstore. We will be there on the 3rd for sure.
Oh and I love me some Nancy Drew. The Hidden Staircase – one of my favorites, too.
It was my sister’s and it was on a shelf. I took it down and started reading it and loved it to death, though my obsession with Nancy Drew made me wonder things like, “If I love the smell of matches and I love the smell of gasoline, will some mean man put them together and try to set me on fire?”
Yeah, I used to scare myself a lot!
Actually, since I got serious about writing this middle grade book, I’ve been taking the inner child to the library, hitting the books I either somehow missed as a kid, or those written since. A Wrinkle in Time was disappointing, but Stuart Little was a charmer, and I’m enjoying the Lloyd Alexander series. Also Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book was great fun.
I loved A Wrinkle in Time when I read it as a kid, but am not sure it would hold up now. That kind of issue bothered me when I first started rating books on GoodReads but I decided not to be picky. If I loved it as a kid it got five stars whether it holds up or not.
Sounds like you’re doing some fun reading. I haven’t read The Graveyard Book yet. I started Coraline and didn’t get far into it before I lost interest.
Think The Jungle Book, but in a graveyard. Not that it’s near as good as The Jungle Book, but it’s fun.
HALF MAGIC!
Man, I loved and read and reread that book.
I loved all the Edward Eager books. Some years ago I checked and Stephen Spielberg had optioned them for movies, but so far it looks like he hasn’t done anything with them.