Obsessive Book Lover's Month of Books - Day Three

What books are the first you remember being read?



This picture book is one of the few I remember. I don't know if we had a lot of picture books, or if we got them out of the library and I just don't recall, but this book we had, and I still remember the cadence of the words.

It didn't rhyme, I don't think, but every word was part of the rhythm, and it was hypnotic.

The rhythm of words, the way the can fall together into a cadence is something that I delight in when writing.



I remember having novels read aloud to me much better--Little House on the Prairie, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Hobbit were the mainstays of my childhood. Historical fiction and fantasy have an important thing in common: they conjure a strange world so we can see it vividly, from our own. The Chronicles of Narnia took place in a different time of our own world as well as a fantasy place, combining the two attributes.

I grew up feeling like the places I loved most were in times past and worlds alien--the fact that I never was really part of the culture around me probably made this love more pronounced.


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A Note of Leaves - Fiber Post

This is the yarn I made as one of my pieces in response to a prompt I shared with fabricalchemist  -- a letter arrives in the mail...but inside the envelope is only one leaf of the autumn foliage. She finished both her story and a gorgeous illustration for it, but both stories inspired by it for me are still in their beginning pages, and only the yarn is complete. It's for both, really--but the white is for the envelopes and the brown for leaves, and the red for rose petals. Because the other story it's petals being sent instead of leaves.



The colors of this actually make me think of the reflections on New England ponds, surrounded by trees, with the leaf-covered bottoms, and the glare of pale sunshine on them...

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I guess I'm testing the theory that the more you post, the more people come and talk to you? This sounds like a dangerously erroneous theory to me, but if I post every day about books, then when I have other things to post about, it will have to be posting more than once a day.
I suppose I should have thought  this through. XD