This is my post for ##memoirmonday #40 What were your favorite books or stories when you were a child? hosted by @ericvancewalton
Dick and Jane, they had a dog called Spot. That was the first book I can remember it was a schoolbook but not anything about what Dick and Jane did, it was first or second grade, it was not my favorite book.
I do not remember us having children's books at home when I was a child but I do remember finding my Dad's stack of Playboys, he had them hidden under the stack of bath towels. Until just now, I have always thought they were Dad's but now I am thinking my oldest brother might have hidden them there, we only had one bathroom and he was 15.
I have written about my 5th grade teacher in the past. She would read to us for one hour after we returned to class after lunch. She started reading Nancy Drew books to us but later switched to The Hardy Boys books. She was the type of person who kept you on the edge of your seat as she read.
When I was a teenager I would read the Harligum Romance books and dream of my future husband. Oh, the fantasies I had.
In my early 20s, I read The Shining and The Stepford Wives, those were the last two books that I have read. When the movies came out I saw them and neither were as good as the book, I have yet to read a book and have a movie be better than the book.
Then I had too many kids to be able to read, I still loved to get lost in a good book but gave it up many, many years ago because as soon as I sat down to read, someone would interrupt me and after reading the same paragraph umpteen times, I gave up on trying to read.
Even now with two in the house, everything will be quiet until I try to read even reading posts on Hive.
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