Childhood nostalgia poll

[rachelmanija]

Please reminisce, fondly or not, about any of these, or other books read in childhood, especially if they seem to have, deservedly or undeservedly, vanished from the shelves. I'd love to hear about non-US, non-British books, too.

[Poll #1720139]

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I also read a ton of VC Andrews, starting at around age 12, when a friend in my 7th grade class introduced me to Flowers in the Attic. (Not so coincidentally, 7th grade was when I started going to a school that was right next to a library, and this friend and I would go afterschool and check out all sorts of books our mothers would never have let us read if they'd known.)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha, I was such a precocious reader that my mother, bless her heart, actually talked to the librarians and gave permission for me to check out YA and adult titles when I was still in elementary school...and she was generally so hyper-controlling about every other aspect of my life, I know she would have been utterly APPALLED if she realized some of the content of the stuff I was reading right under her nose! But she wasn't really a great reader herself, and her friends mostly only read really mainstream bestsellers; and she approved of reading as Educational and Improving (and better than watching tons of TV or running about on my own); so once in a blue moon if I tried to pick up something one of her friends brought to the beach (like V.C. Andrews or Audrey Rose), I'd get told to put it down because it was "too old for you" -- but she never hassled me over dragging bags of age-inappropriate stuff home from the library. XD