I didn't touch any literary fiction for years after my English degree. Studying literature killed my love of reading it. All I read was Gone Girl (amazing) and about 7 million Gone Girl knock-offs (less amazing).
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Maybe Judy B should rename Forever as Perpetual in honour of Jack.Forever
Loved the Faraway Three, loved the boarding school serieses, loved the Babysitter's Club, loved Point Horror (was there Point Crime too?)...loved reading when I was young. Then moved up to Stephen KingI need to read more now!!
Can’t beat a bit of classic Stephen King. I love the term ‘constant reader’ for his fans.
Whilst we are looking back in time, thinking about reading in our rooms, how about this classic? Singing into our hairbrush, throwing our duvet around, full of angst.
This is up there with Sleeping satellite and I missed you by lisa loeb
eta: corrected my autocorrect!
Like a lot of creative people, his best work was just before his cocaine addiction kicked right in. He was brilliant while he was just using a bit then it took hold of him and he got too manic and repetitive. And I love 'constant reader' too.
Love it!! One of the first CDs I owned was a Top Hits Of '97 style thing, but from a company too cheap to pay for the proper tracks so they were all cover versions of the originals. This (well, a cover of this) was on it. What a classic.
@Into_the_tunnel you haven't offended me at all, no worries 
i loved the worst witch! i was so disappointed at how rubbish the tv show wasThe talk of librariesI was SO lucky as a kid because we lived close by to a library, I loved it, I just took out picture books and things like that, but it felt like such a treasure trove. I remember being so excited to have my own library card.
Did anyone else like the Worst Witch books? These silhouette illustrations were just gorgeous.
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i think some of the goosebumps books would probably scareme now! did you ever read those "choose your own avventure " books where you had certain points to decide what to do and depending you would either continue reading or go to a different page?We used to have a mobile library that parked up in our village every Tuesday, and I used to be so excited. My gran would return my books for me when she went to return hers earlier in the day , so that on my way home from school I could go in and get more . Nothing was done by computer so the librarian kept track of everything with a big notebook, envelopes and index cards. If you wanted to request a particular book or author, your request went in the book and she would check in the main library for you ,and bring it for you the next week
another worst witch fan here , although goosebumps / point horror books are what I remember reading the most
I never quite got into the Enid Blyton school stories, or the mystery books. My head was always about magical, toys, anthropomorphic animals, and time slip books. I've never done well with reality I adored a book called Moondial, and of course the Green Knowe series, and Tom's Midnight Garden.
Dorrie the little witch and Milly Molly Mandy were fantastic too, I bought a bunch of them online when daughter actually was an SG, and loved them all over again.
I adored a book called Moondial, and of course the Green Knowe series, and Tom's Midnight Garden.Dorrie the little witch and Milly Molly Mandy were fantastic too, I bought a bunch of them online when daughter actually was an SG, and loved them all over again.
Moondial.I never quite got into the Enid Blyton school stories, or the mystery books. My head was always about magical, toys, anthropomorphic animals, and time slip books. I've never done well with reality
Dorrie the little witch and Milly Molly Mandy were fantastic too, I bought a bunch of them online when daughter actually was an SG, and loved them all over again.
Did they make a really spooky TV series of that?
Yes! I loved it so much. They used to play it on Brownie day, so I'd have to absolutely leg it to the hall afterwards
I have a surprisingly lage collection of books about mountain climbing and polar expeditions for someone whose peak endurance was Glastonbury in 1985.
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I completely agree with you like what you like. When I worked in the library, I became obsessed with books about plane crashes and read them in my break.
I might try anyway. It’s always worth seeing what you could find in the local Tescometroexpress.
Omg yes! I read a Superman “choose your adventure”. It was great fun, but so stressful. If you made the wrong choice it went wrong, REALLY wrong, absolute chaos, destruction, flames.
Loved that song, like you said, full of angst! I remember hearing it when my crush was abroad during the summer holidays , and I missed her so much. So the line “keep in mind we’re under the same sky” had me all
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