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[technoir]

I remember the joy of reading. Indeed i still can get lost in a book if I have time to read which I have had less of these past few years than i would like. From the days when i was a child and my grandmother held an index card on the page to help train my eye to stop jumping around the page so i could read, i have always loved the writen word. In childhood i read such lovely books as the hobbit or dune. A few books which were oriented towards younger readers stuck in my head as well.

The Girl With the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts Was such a a book which of course is of a young girl who has strange powers and is different, but this in the end (as it must in all good stories) proves to be a great thing. it was a splendid book.

The other book which stuck with me was Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, A book of having imagination and transition. It is a rich book and made love being who I was. It embraced the secret kingdoms and imaginary worlds of youth. And it was also a very sad book in the end and i can remember crying and wishing it had not ended in the maner in which it did but knowing it had to.

I bring this up now do to this:

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=pressreleases&template=/contentmanagement/contentdisplay.cfm&ContentID=57115

It is a list of the books most requested to be banned this past year and I find one of my cherished books of childhood. this bothers me more than I suppose it should. I have accepted long ago that our society is less than it should be. But I am offended by this. It is like being told your childhood was wrong somehow.

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[moosea1.livejournal.com]

So, I noticed you had added me to your Friends list, and I ended up perusing your journal. I was particularly struck by this entry as bridge to Tarabithia was one of my all time favorite books, and had an incredible influence on my life. And, I have never before heard of anyone else who ever heard of The Girl with the Silver Eyes, let alone actually read it, which was another of my favorite reads as a child. In fact, I still own my very beaten-up copies of both these books which have been re-read more times than I can possibly remember!

Another influential one for me was The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (or whatever exactly the title was). And, of course, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

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I loved the rats of NIMH. I almost want to track that one down and read it again. Aint seen you in a while. Brandis told me you had an LJ and i had to add ya to me list.