Comfort Books and Memories
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joshwritingI 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...
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Date: 2005-02-09 06:21 am (UTC)Did you know that Wenda and Richard collect Oz books?
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Date: 2005-02-09 08:51 am (UTC)http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?tn=Patty+Fairfield
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Date: 2005-02-09 09:43 am (UTC)But, as Scout would point out, were she to be posting now, they aren't my mom's books! If I did not know where hers are, or if she lived farther afield, I might be more inclined to go that route. (I have a good used bookstore not far from me that carries them, often.)
Thank you for the thought.
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Date: 2005-02-09 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-10 07:28 am (UTC)Roald Dahl was another big one, Bobbsey Twins (holy crap i read those almost as much as the oz books), nancy drew/hardy boys (i liked that hardy boys ones better,haha) WISHBONE books, oh my god i had like 100 of them, i miss that show! I was trying to remember the theme song for several years, and then last week, i woke up one morning and i suddenly remembered it. doot doo doot doo wishbone, what's your story wishbone?... haha good times.