Posted by Racer on October 1, 2004, at 12:38:15
In reply to chips and dips » Racer, posted by NikkiT2 on September 30, 2004, at 15:20:21
[takes thumb out of mouth] "Me, too!"
Only, in my case, I go upstairs to our guest room -- where you can stay when you come and visit ;-) -- and take books off the bookcase in there. Mostly horse stories, for adolescent girls, but a few things like John Christopher's Tripods series -- "The White Mountains", "The City of Gold and Lead", and "The Pool of Fire" -- and some other classic kids books, "Mistress Masham's Repose", "The Egypt Game", "Half Magic", and so on.
There is something so very soothing about children's books, isn't there? If you like those, my dear, try Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" -- not a kids book, but the same 'feel' for adults. Lovely book. "Seventh Son" is similarly magic for adults. Warning, though: Scott is Mormon, through and through. The Alvin Maker series, which starts with "Seventh Son", is his fictionalized -- and idealized -- story of Joseph Smith. Sometimes that bothers me a lot, but the first three Alvin Maker books are so good I hardly care.
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