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Fri, Jul. 2nd, 2004 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterWow! So I was reading ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minnow1212 and melymbrosia's old book posts (I love the memories function), and I stumbled onto Mely's post on Ellen Raskin, which I clicked on because I just recently read Leon/Noel. And there's this little comment in there that says she wrote Figgs and Phantoms!!
That was the weirdest book I read as a kid, and I still remember the uncle's funny armbands and Mona and the pirate guy and the strange isle of Capri, which always reminded me of those drinks in foil packages. I can't believe Ellen Raskin wrote that! Wow! It was like being in the bookstore and discovering someone relatively famous wrote Half Magic, which was another one of those books I read as a kid (always associated it with Five Children and It, for some reason). But, wow! I'm going to have to dig up that book again to see if it's as weird as I remember.
In other news, a friend from work drew me from my picture with Fool-Rat here. I look like me! It's so funny! And my glasses are half slipping off my nose and I don't quite know where I should be looking.
Hee, I've always been fascinated with having my portrait done.
minnow1212 and melymbrosia's old book posts (I love the memories function), and I stumbled onto Mely's post on Ellen Raskin, which I clicked on because I just recently read Leon/Noel. And there's this little comment in there that says she wrote Figgs and Phantoms!!That was the weirdest book I read as a kid, and I still remember the uncle's funny armbands and Mona and the pirate guy and the strange isle of Capri, which always reminded me of those drinks in foil packages. I can't believe Ellen Raskin wrote that! Wow! It was like being in the bookstore and discovering someone relatively famous wrote Half Magic, which was another one of those books I read as a kid (always associated it with Five Children and It, for some reason). But, wow! I'm going to have to dig up that book again to see if it's as weird as I remember.
In other news, a friend from work drew me from my picture with Fool-Rat here. I look like me! It's so funny! And my glasses are half slipping off my nose and I don't quite know where I should be looking.
Hee, I've always been fascinated with having my portrait done.
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Fri, Jul. 2nd, 2004 04:09 pm (UTC)Books that stick in my memory -- geez. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths is one of the main ones, and this series of books on myths and legends from around the world. That's from pre-Taiwan days. That and the Oz series, which are very vaguely remembered. And fairy tales, which I read voraciously... the more variations the better.
Lots of classics -- Little Women (although I liked Little Men better), A Little Princess and Secret Garden, though I liked Little Princess better because Sara read. Five Children and It. Half Magic. Peter Pan. Little House on the Prairie series.
I went on an LM Montgomery spree starting in sixth grade, and I still love those books, particularly Rilla of Ingleside. The Murray family L'Engle books. Tolkein, who was my first real introduction to the fantasy genre. I still remember how heartbroken I was when Gandalf died in Fellowship. Ender's Game, probably the first sci-fi book I ever read. Sixth grade was probably when I really started devouring books because I'd finally found something to focus on. Up till then, I had always known I was looking for something like the fairy tales I read, but I never quite knew that there was an entire genre sitting and waiting for me ^_^.