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Saturday, December 26, 2009

My First Post

I've put this off long enough...We've just had a blizzard, so its not like I have a pressing engagement elsewhere. Anyway, here goes.
I have a deep relationship with books, that dates back to my childhood. In the earliest years of my recollection, I moved a lot. Me. Literally. Sometimes, I was with Mom, sometimes I was with Dad, other times I was with Grandma. I was probably with Grandma more often than anyone else, and that is where I got my love for words.
Grandma loved to read, and everyone is fairly sure she taught me to read. I can't remember not being able to read, so they may be right. She had memorized countless excerpts from plays and other literature and only God knows how many poems. When I think of her now, so many of those words float through, along with a few choice ones she came up with herself.
My mom remarried when I was eight, and we moved into a real house. When our new neigbhor (a lady named Dana... thats all I remember)learned I liked books, she gave me, what seemed to me at the time, the mother lode. I don't remember how many there were, but I know what they were. They were Trixie Beldon and Nancy Drew Mysteries. I was in heaven. That year I also became acquainted the Scholastic book club and the library. Its where I met Old Yeller and Henry Huggins. I still have that copy of Old Yeller. Somewhere along that time is when I began to equate books with comfort and safety. Not just the stories which provided such a lovely escape from a not so nice childhood, but the books themselves. There is probably a psychiatrist somewhere who could explain that to me. Today, I have over a thousand books here at the house with more coming in all the time. Thats not just me though. My partner Ed, loves them as much as I do, and has more time to actually read them.
Any way. I thought this blog would be a good place to air my thoughts about books. The ones I love, the ones I don't, old books, new books, kids books, and any other kind of book. Right now, there are five books I am "reading". Maybe tomorrow, I'll talk about them. Hey maybe tomorrow, I'll finish one!

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