Friday, June 15, 2012

A week of lists

While on the theme of memory (see last post), I thought I would do an exercise and post a list of remembered items every day for a week (this is also the week of my birthday so maybe a remembering theme is particularly fitting?)
List # 1: Books I loved as a kid (between roughly 6 and 8)
1) Beware the Fish by Gordon Korman (and pretty much all other Gordon Korman books)
2) From the Mixed-Up Files of mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
3) Richard Scarry books (I guess a little earlier than 6?)
4) James and the Giant Peach
5) The B.F.G.
6) Sweet Valley High books
7) Babysitters' Club books
8) Pride and Prejudice
9) Anne of Green Gables
10) Emily of New Moon
11) The Story Girl
12) A book from the Outremont library kids' section called Angela and Luke (I think)
13) Marsupulami comic books
14) I remember really liking Courte echelle books by Christine Brouillet, but I don't remember their names. I liked some other Courte echelle books too, but the only title that comes to me is from one I didn't particularly like, called Le Nombril du monde.
15) Harlequin romances
16) Stalky and Co.
17) Archie comics
This is just the things that came to the front of my mind in five minutes. It feels terribly incomplete. Maybe I'll add more in comments as I think of them. I liked Judy Blume books a lot too -- Superfudge, Tales of a Fifth-Grade Nothing, Sheila the Great. Oh, and Lois Lowry, I liked her books a lot too -- none of the names come to me right now.

2 comments:

  1. Hey Sylvia! I found my way here from FB. I love reading that other adults loved the books I loved as a kid. If you're interested, here's a link to the blog Caroline and I sporadically update to crystallize our affection and nostalgia for kidlit: vickyandpolly.wordpress.com.
    S.

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  2. Hey that's awesome - nice blog! I had actually wandered onto it once before and am very glad to be reminded of it.

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