January 28, 2011 – 5:03 pm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
I know that this is really weird, but the high school that I went to didn’t have a library. None. A school. No books. This is for real. When we had to read a book for class that wasn’t a group-read, a lady would bring a cart [...]
January 14, 2011 – 5:57 pm
The Berenstain Bears
Do you remember these!? I had forgotten all about them before I saw one in my nephew’s book collection the other day. I think we probably had about 300 different Berenstain Bear books while I was growing up. I frigging loved them. I loved how the kids didn’t (as far as I know) [...]
January 7, 2011 – 5:18 pm
The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margory Williams Bianco
The original Toy Story, right? I remember my mom reading this to me and me beeing just totally into the idea that maybe my stuffed animals (of which I had about 45 million) came to life when I wasn’t around. The idea didn’t really freak me out but it [...]
December 31, 2010 – 11:20 am
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
To say I loved Encyclopedia Brown would be quite the understatement. I was a little bit obsessed. What I loved about these books was that they weren’t really set up like a story, they were more like a collection of “cases” so I didn’t have to read the whole book every time [...]
December 17, 2010 – 6:05 am
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
This is another one of those books that immediately takes me back to a time in my life. When Shaun and I first started dating, we were living in Columbus and I was working as a waitress and going to school. I got a big fat paperback of Gone [...]
December 10, 2010 – 6:39 am
Cujo, by Stephen King
This is one of the first times that I noticed that not everyone was hugely into reading like yours truly. I know I’ve bragged on my mom before but she really is the reason I’m a big reader. She was always reading to me and around me and providing me with great [...]
December 3, 2010 – 6:46 am
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
Really, though, who didn’t love Anne? Everyone has a soft spot for an orphan, of course, but Anne wasn’t just any orphan. She was sweet and quirky and funny and… a redhead! You guys know I have a soft spot in my heart for redheads (have you seen my [...]
November 26, 2010 – 6:52 am
Aesop’s Fables
From my earliest memory, we had this giant, beautiful copy of Aesop’s Fables. I’m sure my mom just got it from a thrift store or something, but it was just this wonderful book. It was bigger than my little-kid lap and had these really strange ink drawings to go with a lot of the [...]
November 19, 2010 – 6:35 am
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
I told you guys a couple of months a go that I am a crier when it comes to books. To be honest, I’m kind of a crier when it comes to anything, but books are one of my favorite things to cry over. This is one that has [...]
November 12, 2010 – 6:12 am
Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
Sometimes books will have this one scene that just sticks with you. I have to admit that I don’t remember all of this book. I remember that it is written as a diary and it is about this girl, Alice, that gets totally screwed up on drugs. I remember Alice [...]