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Aug. 25th, 2006 03:06 pmMeme from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fajrdrako
1. What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
When I was really little, I was fascinated with P.D. Eastman's "Are You My Mother," that book about the baby bird that falls out of its nest and gets lost. I think the idea of losing my mother terrified and fascinated me at the same time.
The first book I reread obsessively once I was reading on my own was the first Nancy Drew book I ever read: "The Mystery of the 99 Steps." It was set in France and set me on a lifelong path of Francophilia. I read pretty much every Nancy Drew book that was out at the time, but that's the only one that ever stuck in my head.
I actually read a lot of adult books when I was really young--I was reading my dad's Perry Mason, Nero Wolfe and Louis L'Amour books when I was 8, mostly because they were what was in the house. (I was also 8 when I read "Confessions of the Boston Strangler," which probably warped my sexual development in really strange ways. Well, that and lives of the saints. I blame my bondage kink on those two sources. Some of those martyr stories are very kinky!)
If we're talking about books written specifically for kids, though, there are two series I loved to death: the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series, which I chiefly loved for all the practical details about life on the frontier, and John D. Fitzgerald's The Great Brain series, about four brothers growing up in 19th century Utah.
When I was a little older, definitely my favorite books were fantasy. I reread the Chronicles of Narnia probably about 50 times, and spent an awful lot of time checking out wardrobes in people's houses just in case. And the Lord of the Rings was another favorite.
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fajrdrako1. What book or books were special to you in your childhood?
When I was really little, I was fascinated with P.D. Eastman's "Are You My Mother," that book about the baby bird that falls out of its nest and gets lost. I think the idea of losing my mother terrified and fascinated me at the same time.
The first book I reread obsessively once I was reading on my own was the first Nancy Drew book I ever read: "The Mystery of the 99 Steps." It was set in France and set me on a lifelong path of Francophilia. I read pretty much every Nancy Drew book that was out at the time, but that's the only one that ever stuck in my head.
I actually read a lot of adult books when I was really young--I was reading my dad's Perry Mason, Nero Wolfe and Louis L'Amour books when I was 8, mostly because they were what was in the house. (I was also 8 when I read "Confessions of the Boston Strangler," which probably warped my sexual development in really strange ways. Well, that and lives of the saints. I blame my bondage kink on those two sources. Some of those martyr stories are very kinky!)
If we're talking about books written specifically for kids, though, there are two series I loved to death: the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series, which I chiefly loved for all the practical details about life on the frontier, and John D. Fitzgerald's The Great Brain series, about four brothers growing up in 19th century Utah.
When I was a little older, definitely my favorite books were fantasy. I reread the Chronicles of Narnia probably about 50 times, and spent an awful lot of time checking out wardrobes in people's houses just in case. And the Lord of the Rings was another favorite.
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