tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post5525888024927221219..comments2023-10-03T18:30:42.773-05:00Comments on Meta Watershed: BOOKS ARE THE LOVE OF STRANGERSMaggie Jochildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577090500862823864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-56020063898861746522008-10-02T23:27:00.000-05:002008-10-02T23:27:00.000-05:00Wow what a list, I feel a need to fill in all my g...Wow what a list, I feel a need to fill in all my gaps, as it were.<BR/><BR/>And the poems - gasp! - I shed a rare tear.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the intro to Millay, and to your wonderful literary heritage Maggie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-78733202400543700042008-09-30T22:42:00.000-05:002008-09-30T22:42:00.000-05:00I was the oldest of six. The next three were boys ...I was the oldest of six. The next three were boys who seemed to want to kill each other. <BR/><BR/>I took refuge in books. I read everything. My parents' books, everything in the library. This escape has sustained me all my life (now 56).<BR/><BR/>Books may be the reason I'm an introvert. Oh well!<BR/><BR/>Thank you for opening a window on who you are, Maggie.<BR/>Janletsdancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14667916513434637749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-81626488723887640782008-09-30T18:39:00.000-05:002008-09-30T18:39:00.000-05:00I've always been a huge reader, and like your mom,...I've always been a huge reader, and like your mom, mine read to me from the time I was a baby. Frances Hodgson Burnett was a favorite author (the Little Princess, The Secret Garden), plus a lot of the same ones you were read. <BR/><BR/>The list of most frequently challenged or banned books, interestingly, features several (no, lots!) that I read for school. Elementary school, even, not high school or college.kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18268308908367447768noreply@blogger.com