 |
| Not me |
This is not me. It's not even a relative. That's R.L. Stine and he kept me company through most of my junior high years. Well...his books did anyway. And guess what? He's still writing! While Carrie and Chanin read age-appropriate romances, I found myself drawn more to scary stories; R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, and the amazingly horrific Stephen King. I read other things too, but this constituted the majority of my not-school-mandated literary forays.
During that time I learned that the best stories haunt you even after they're over. Thanks to The Shining I don't put my back to fire extinguishers and I greatly distrust topiary. But I also learned that you don't have to be scared by the book to be haunted by it. My personal definition of courage comes from To Kill a Mockingbird, and I read that as a freshman in high school. Whenever I find myself moping around about being bored (which is approximately never because my children are continually making a mess for me to clean up), I remember Milo getting stuck in the Doldrums from The Phantom Tollbooth. And when everything starts to get too adult in my world, I look up and find the hidden things in the clouds overhead thanks to The Little Prince. I loved the books I read as a "young reader" and "young adult." To this day, some of them remain my favorites....and that's what I want to share with you.
PS Like Carrie, I, too, am Twi-loather. I read all four of those books waiting for that girl to actually wonder what she knew about herself rather than that boy/vampire/really old guy. I'm still waiting. And I'm a little bitter about it. So don't expect any glowing reviews about the series from me.
During that time I learned that the best stories haunt you even after they're over. Thanks to The Shining I don't put my back to fire extinguishers and I greatly distrust topiary. But I also learned that you don't have to be scared by the book to be haunted by it. My personal definition of courage comes from To Kill a Mockingbird, and I read that as a freshman in high school. Whenever I find myself moping around about being bored (which is approximately never because my children are continually making a mess for me to clean up), I remember Milo getting stuck in the Doldrums from The Phantom Tollbooth. And when everything starts to get too adult in my world, I look up and find the hidden things in the clouds overhead thanks to The Little Prince. I loved the books I read as a "young reader" and "young adult." To this day, some of them remain my favorites....and that's what I want to share with you.PS Like Carrie, I, too, am Twi-loather. I read all four of those books waiting for that girl to actually wonder what she knew about herself rather than that boy/vampire/really old guy. I'm still waiting. And I'm a little bitter about it. So don't expect any glowing reviews about the series from me.
No comments:
Post a Comment