Day #4: A Book That Reminds You of Home
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| I even wanted this hair! So flippy! |
The Nancy Drew books will always remind me of home. They (and the Trixie Belden books) were the first series I ever read and probably the first books I read that didn't have little golden spines and 5 words per page.
When I think of these books I can almost smell the house I grew up in. Man, I miss that place.
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| Thanks to my mom and her sisters for passing down these gems to me! |
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I just adore Nancy Drew! Some of my best 4th grade memories were of reading through the series with my best friend.
ReplyDeleteHi Jenifer, I know just what you mean :) Nancy makes me feel very nostalgic
DeleteI loved Nancy too :)
ReplyDeleteI also loved the Enid Blyton detective type stories - Famous Five and Secret Seven. I had them and my Nancys all lined up on my bookshelf and they were certainly well read!
I never had a chance to read Enid Blyton and that makes me a bit sad!
DeleteFor some people, scents or the taste of certain foods will take them back to their childhoods. For me, it's books. Especially picture books. Before I was able to read, I stared at the drawings in books while they were read to me and I can still "see" some of them in my head!
ReplyDeleteAdrian, I love hearing that because I know just what you mean!
DeleteOh, man! For me it was visiting my sort-of Grandma's house. Her basement was lined with bookshelves of all the great girl series like Anne and Ruth Fielding and Marjorie Dean. The basement was a little damp and musty, but quiet and safe all at the same time. I loved my visits to that house. Re-reading Anne or Marjorie brings me right back to that basement and all the promise that it held.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! My Grandparents lived on a lake and when I think of reading there I can still feel the nubby blankets and smell wet swim suits :)
DeleteSomehow, I missed reading Nancy Drew when growing up :s My childhood reads were Sweet Valley High and Roald Dahl, among others. I think the Winnie the Pooh books (and animated show :)) really remind me most of home and my childhood.
ReplyDeleteAh, SVH, I liked those a lot too. I wasn't introduced to Roald Dahl until my kids were born..I wish I had had access to his books when I was a kid!
DeleteHa, I just read one of these the other day! It was a lovely hour of childhood nostalgia. :)
ReplyDeleteDid you?? That's awesome! I haven't read them since I was a kid and none of my kids showed an interest in them either. I think they'd be a little old fashioned now. But wait..I think they may have been updated? Hmm..I'll have to look into that :)
DeleteAm I terrible for never having read any of these books ever???? I read a ton as a child, but never a Nancy!
ReplyDeleteNah, not terrible! I was just lucky that the whole series was still around from when my mom and her sisters read them.
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