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In reply to the discussion: What did you read as a child? [View all]

dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts)
64. Mr. dixie and I have learned to watch our movies separaely.
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 12:48 AM
Jul 2018

I keep wanting to pause the video so I can lookup something in the script,,a word or phrase, to just gork on how a room is put together. And often use subtitles, cause I remember what I see much better than what I hear.
I wanted to read Dickens, and Trollupe in context of their world, so bought the "companion "books that describes the social, political world of the character. Most helpful.
Basically I focus on the increasingly popular genre known as Social History, and have found some marvelous books.

Finally found out the English phrase " to drop a penny", certain classes of women in England would ask to be excused from a gathering, which would be explained by another character .."she had to go drop a penny".
Meaning using a public toilet area that cost women , but not men, of course, a penny to unlock the stall door.

What did you read as a child? [View all] Cartoonist Jul 2018 OP
Encyclopaedias Xipe Totec Jul 2018 #1
Fiction group Cartoonist Jul 2018 #2
Encyclopedia Brittanica, National Geographic, Anon-C Jul 2018 #55
My favorite book MichMary Jul 2018 #3
Wow.. I remember that book. 1960 for me . likesmountains 52 Jul 2018 #11
Just out of curiosity I looked it up MichMary Jul 2018 #18
I looked too! Used hardcovers are $200! likesmountains 52 Jul 2018 #21
I read all the Nancy Drew books Ohiogal Jul 2018 #4
Beezus Cartoonist Jul 2018 #6
We had a bunch of Bobbsey Twin books MichMary Jul 2018 #20
I read the trixie beldon series. My daughters read them all. My one daughter still has them. notdarkyet Jul 2018 #31
Tolkien and Castaneda - as a 6th grade child thbobby Jul 2018 #5
I missed out. Cartoonist Jul 2018 #9
Oh bravo for you. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #54
The hobbit thbobby Jul 2018 #61
Tricia Beldon was an early favorite and my sisters Nancy Drew series was... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #7
Trixie Belden, I think that's the name. I read all those, plus Hardy Boys and Nay Jul 2018 #22
Yeah, I had stacks of books in my room and though... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #26
I used to go outside under a tree to read -- so peaceful! And yes, my bro and I Nay Jul 2018 #28
Yup. All things considered I am so grateful to have grown up when I did... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #41
Bookworm here, read everything I could get my hands on. lark Jul 2018 #8
Same here. I read practically everything in our small rural grade school library early on. Arkansas Granny Jul 2018 #16
Loved the fairy tales. The yellow book, the red book, Hans Christian Anderson. So many books notdarkyet Jul 2018 #33
OMG, I love this post. lark Jul 2018 #37
Me, too! I am sitting here with a wonderfully nostalgic grin plastered on my face! Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #43
Book lovers unite!! lark Jul 2018 #45
Biographies, mainly and books about dogs-- hlthe2b Jul 2018 #10
Read every biography in the library. Later found out they mostly weren't true. notdarkyet Jul 2018 #34
I was trying to remember that title. lark Jul 2018 #46
All the Little House snowybirdie Jul 2018 #12
I, too. loved the Little House books. Ohiogal Jul 2018 #13
Yes! snowybirdie Jul 2018 #24
Stephen King and Dean Koontz, mostly... Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #14
i love love both of those authors, have all Stephen King books to date & lots of Koontz's too. lark Jul 2018 #19
The Koontz Frankenstein books are very interesting. You'll like them. Zoonart Jul 2018 #27
My mom (an English/Psychology graduate) always Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #32
Damn, I totally forgot the Mark Twain classics. lark Jul 2018 #36
I'm still a huge King fan, but I've grown to loathe Koontz. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #50
You'd think a dog lover would have compassion for people. lark Jul 2018 #59
Love my books Bayard Jul 2018 #15
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and the Nickodemus series. Frustratedlady Jul 2018 #17
I read adventure stories and thrilling suspense novels. procon Jul 2018 #23
I loved The Three Investigators series MichMary Jul 2018 #25
Little House Books and Charlotte's web helped shape me into a vegan mucifer Jul 2018 #29
Read a few Hardy Boys and a bunch of the Encyclopedia Brown stories... Thomas Hurt Jul 2018 #30
Judy Blume, RL Stine...then King and Koontz in early teens backtoblue Jul 2018 #35
Comic books cyclonefence Jul 2018 #38
I went from 'Nancy Drew' and 'The Bobbsey Twins' to historical biographies before my teens Siwsan Jul 2018 #39
I read Nancy Drew murielm99 Jul 2018 #40
"We Were There" historical novels. Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes dameatball Jul 2018 #42
"The Mad Scientists Club", "Miss Pickerel Goes to Mars", "The Incredible Flight ... Mushroom Planet" eppur_se_muova Jul 2018 #44
Watership Down highmindedhavi Jul 2018 #47
Great book, but not Tolkien. It was Richard Adams. dameatball Jul 2018 #62
Haha highmindedhavi Jul 2018 #66
Oh okay, very much agreed. Thanks. dameatball Jul 2018 #67
From the time I was 4 everything with words TexasProgresive Jul 2018 #48
YESSS..I hear you. anything with print. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #57
I've found my sister. TexasProgresive Jul 2018 #63
Mr. dixie and I have learned to watch our movies separaely. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #64
The Happy Hollisters Auggie Jul 2018 #49
Hollisters Cartoonist Jul 2018 #60
I'm 63, so Nancy Drew was just about the only game in town for girl heroines at the time. catbyte Jul 2018 #51
Elementary school MyOwnPeace Jul 2018 #52
Nancy Drew. And then I went through my brothers' Hardy Boys! fierywoman Jul 2018 #53
The first "real book" I remember reading Docreed2003 Jul 2018 #56
Books my dad would give me MFM008 Jul 2018 #58
So many books, from the time I could read. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #65
First, Tom Swift Jr., later Edgar Rice Burroughs Number9Dream Sep 2018 #68
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