books books books

Ok anyone who knows me, knows that I have a love affair with books that is almost unhealthy :P but the last couple of days have gotten me thinking of the books of my childhood. My son loves books almost as much as me and has always had a story at bedtime, now that he is getting older, we are moving onto the more fun books, Roald Dahl, the Chronicles of Narnia etc. At the moment we are reading the BFG and that is what is prompting this post.

I LOVE IT, as in i'm getting excited at bedtime to get to the next chapter, for the first time EVER he is getting to con me out of more than one chapter each night. I love Sophie, I love the BFG, his nonsensical words, his down to earth attitude to giants eating human beings or as he calls them beans. Every single night we are laughing and getting caught up in this story and it is like falling in love with a book and I remember that as a child (as an adult there have been a couple of books, Frankenstein, the HP series, the Demons Lexicon series, persusaion etc that I have fallen in love with) but as a child I devoured books like food. I fell in love with the worlds of Narnia and Middle Earth and with characters like Pippi Longstocking and Anne Shirly.

So my question to you my dear flist is

What books did you adore as a child and why? what made them special, have you reread them as an adult, are they still as good?

books books books

Ok anyone who knows me, knows that I have a love affair with books that is almost unhealthy :P but the last couple of days have gotten me thinking of the books of my childhood. My son loves books almost as much as me and has always had a story at bedtime, now that he is getting older, we are moving onto the more fun books, Roald Dahl, the Chronicles of Narnia etc. At the moment we are reading the BFG and that is what is prompting this post.

I LOVE IT, as in i'm getting excited at bedtime to get to the next chapter, for the first time EVER he is getting to con me out of more than one chapter each night. I love Sophie, I love the BFG, his nonsensical words, his down to earth attitude to giants eating human beings or as he calls them beans. Every single night we are laughing and getting caught up in this story and it is like falling in love with a book and I remember that as a child (as an adult there have been a couple of books, Frankenstein, the HP series, the Demons Lexicon series, persusaion etc that I have fallen in love with) but as a child I devoured books like food. I fell in love with the worlds of Narnia and Middle Earth and with characters like Pippi Longstocking and Anne Shirly.

So my question to you my dear flist is

What books did you adore as a child and why? what made them special, have you reread them as an adult, are they still as good?