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Comfort Books and Memories
Feb. 9th, 2005 02:22 amI was talking with one of my Becca-friends (I know 5 of them) about the notion of comfort books - those books you bury yourself in to help yourself to feel better. I will probably be putting a list of that sort up at some point in the foreseeable future.
In a later conversation, with Scout, we found ourselves discussing the Oz books, both the 14 of L. Frank Baum and the later books, including Ruth Plumly Thompson's. All of these books are free for the reading, on line, much to my pleasure!
But for me, the best thing that sprang from the two conversations was recollections of nights spent in my mom's old bedroom at her mother's house. It was a pair of twin beds, side by side, with a joiner, to make them into a king of sorts. It had gobs of pillows. But best of all, it had books.
I grew up reading my mom's original hard covers of the Oz series. I got to read her Fairy books (Andrew Lang's Red and Blue Fairy Books, etc.) And I read her Patty Fairfield books. I read them all, again and again. I still read the Oz books, at times, for comfort. They all ended up back at her house when my grandmother passed away (and died, even), but I have my own copies of the Lang and the Oz books. The Patty Fairfield books I do not have, nor do I think they were reprinted.
I think I will borrow them...
In a later conversation, with Scout, we found ourselves discussing the Oz books, both the 14 of L. Frank Baum and the later books, including Ruth Plumly Thompson's. All of these books are free for the reading, on line, much to my pleasure!
But for me, the best thing that sprang from the two conversations was recollections of nights spent in my mom's old bedroom at her mother's house. It was a pair of twin beds, side by side, with a joiner, to make them into a king of sorts. It had gobs of pillows. But best of all, it had books.
I grew up reading my mom's original hard covers of the Oz series. I got to read her Fairy books (Andrew Lang's Red and Blue Fairy Books, etc.) And I read her Patty Fairfield books. I read them all, again and again. I still read the Oz books, at times, for comfort. They all ended up back at her house when my grandmother passed away (and died, even), but I have my own copies of the Lang and the Oz books. The Patty Fairfield books I do not have, nor do I think they were reprinted.
I think I will borrow them...
