Tag: childhood
group name: booklover
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March 16, 2006 09:29 PM EST --
What are your earliest memories of books? Do you remember a favorite relative or friend reading to you as a child? Do you remember the joy you felt when you were learning to read or does it . . .
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August 30, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
I was an avid reader as a child. There was nothing I liked better than getting to go to the library and take home a stack of "fresh" books. Some of my favorites were the popular mystery series . . .
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February 04, 2008 11:07 AM EST --
I tell people that I Want Candy is about all the terrible stuff that happened to you in 8 th grade but you don't tell anyone about it until you're 38 years old. I think it's important . . .
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June 17, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
summer is perfect for little kids. time is always free, but with summer, time seems to expand.
remember when you got out of school, and RAN home, and just jumped for joy?? THAT . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:35 PM EDT --
Andrei Petrescu is a young Romanian boy, living a poor but happy life with his parents in the mid-1930s. With the second World War looming, Andrei’s family is in danger, because his mother is . . .
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March 23, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
This passage is from my novel, After the Floods, a story of a town's recovery from disaster. The passage is part of the narrator's meditation on the past before he narrates the novel's final . . .
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February 11, 2008 05:19 PM EST --
In college all my friends had long-time boyfriends, and I was the perennial seventh wheel. I was everyone's sherpa, holding coats and wallets when my pals hit the dance floor or went to sweet talk . . .
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February 19, 2008 03:47 PM EST --
Like most kids, when I was small I learned the alphabet by singing my ABCs. In seventh grade I discovered a record album, Lexicon of Love , by a music group that used those same three letters as their . . .
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June 03, 2007 10:00 PM EDT --
If you think you've read a book like this before, you probably have. Me & Emma is set in rural North Carolina and narrated by an abused and neglected eight year old girl named Carrie. The back . . .
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October 28, 2006 02:31 AM EDT --
To all the authors out there, what began your passion for the written
word?
For me, I was 7. The spark was lit when I was in the first grade, and
the second graders read stories . . .
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July 02, 2009 09:55 PM EDT --
A memoir of another time, another place, another 4th of July, and another level of parenting.
I've been thinking a lot about my folks lately. I refer to . . .
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October 01, 2006 12:36 PM EDT --
My little family and I make regular weekend sojourns to our local public library to check out new books for our two children. Our daughter, at 23 months, is a book-a-holic, and we're trying to . . .
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June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:24 PM EST --
One day about a week ago, like so many who love the rich literary life in the Minneapolis area, I found myself craving the company of words. I looked, as I often do, to the Loft Literary Center website . . .
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January 16, 2008 01:56 PM EST --
Question of the morning. What is yoru favorite comic strip. Sunday funnies or online. Old or new. Or like Far Side, in a book. Is there one or two that you LOVE to read?
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January 16, 2008 12:21 AM EST --
Okay. I have a WONDERFUL (heavy sarcasm) story here from my seven year old son!
You title it. I can think of a few titles.
1- Stories to tell your girlfriends.
2- Didn't need . . .
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January 16, 2008 01:02 AM EST --
You have that 'one' song or two that are in your head? The one when things are going to crap, hell in a hand basket or you are just plain tired and have hours left until you can rest? Kids spazing . . .
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January 16, 2008 01:15 AM EST --
Okay. Decided I'd start a Question of the day. Please join in. Make it a nice chat. Comment back and forth. Have fun.
So (If you read my stuff you'll notice I say that often! LOL).. . . .
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February 17, 2008 07:17 AM EST --
Hey all, Hope everyone is doing good. I've been busy, like usual.
For those that read or commented, about two weeks ago I posted about having a bad cold. Well, I went to the doctor and he . . .
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May 22, 2008 04:52 PM EDT --
Sergio loves water but not the deep kind. "When he's around water, Sergio can be: relaxed, happy, funny, playful and silly." Which makes sense because Sergio is a penguin from Argentina, . . .
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Booklovers
Location: of Wonder, FL
Created: Feb 14, 2006
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