Top Ten Best Bookish Memories
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the bloggers over at the Broke and the Bookish. Book bloggers from all around create lists based on the chosen topics, and post links to the host blog to share our love of books. This week we are looking at amazing memories of reading. I have a lot of these, and I’m sure there are some that I’m not remembering when I write this. But here’s my best attempt at my favorite reading memories:
Top Ten Best Bookish Memories
[Celebrate good times...]
1.) A whole bunch of Harry Potter-related memories: reading the first four books in four days, receiving book 5 in the mail, going solo to the midnight release of book 6, and reading book seven in my tent (in the dark, in the middle of the woods, alone) at camp when I was a counselor.
2.) Reading Holes by Louis Sachar during my brother’s double-header baseball game. I had been stung by a bee (for the first time), and was crying SO HARD, because I’m terrified of bees. The book was in my mom’s car, so I sat and read the whole thing for the remainder of the games.
3.) Reading The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle with my sixth graders when I was a classroom teacher. It was my first experience with having students so into a book that they refused to stop reading.
4.) Discovering Agatha Christie in eighth grade, when I got several of her books for Christmas. The Murder on the Orient Express was such a good gateway book.
5.) In undergrad, when I was working on my degree in middle grades education, I was able to take a Young Adult Literature class through the School of Information and Library Science. This class not only opened my mind to both the genre and study of YA Lit, but also planted the seed for my future career as a librarian.
6.) The fun I had reading When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead with my book club kids last year. I still can’t believe I got all of those kids to read so many books just for fun.
7.) Remember those awesome Scholastic orders you could do in school? I joined The Babysitters Club Book Club and got three books in the mail every six weeks, AND a whole bunch of BSC trinkets. I know I still have all of those books somewhere!
8.) Reading Alice books at my friend Jennie’s house, because she had them all and I didn’t.
9.) In my first year out of college, I was really bored without homework to do, so I started reading every James Patterson book I could find. I think I read fifteen books in two months.
10.) Silent, sustained reading (SSR) in sixth grade. This was the only year in school that I remember doing this, but we got a lot of time (45 minutes, maybe?) every day in school to read independently and journal about our reading. For a book nerd, this was the best time of the day.
What are you favorite bookish memories?
Posted on February 5, 2013, in books, librarian, lists, teacher and tagged memories, teacher, teacher librarians, teaching, Top Ten Tuesday. Bookmark the permalink. 13 Comments.
Reading all seven Narnia books in three days right before Christmas when I was ten. I loved them so much, my uncle got them for me for Christmas.
You read four of the Potter books in four days… Wow, thats something!
Oh my gosh, how did I forget about the Babysitter’s Club! My friends and I had actually created a club and made up flyers and everything. We posted them in local stores and no one ever called (probably because they didn’t want 12-year-olds watching their kids hahaha) so it dissipated quickly, but we had so much fun with that!
LOVE all the HP-related memories. I have so many as well! I’m sure we all do, and it’s so much fun hearing what other people’s were!
Four HP books in four days is something to be proud of!
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I vaguely remember being part of a BSC fan club of some sort as a kid. I submitted a picture of myself with my Claudia Barbie-doll to the newsletter, but don’t think it ever got published. I also had a necklace that said Babysitter’s Club on it, but that might have come packaged with a book. I was a pretty big fan there for a while!
Love this! We did SSR in my 3rd grade class, but our teacher called it “super silent reading.” And I probably spent some of those times reading Babysitter’s Club books!
I’m really enjoying reading everybody’s lists this week!
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Awesome memories! I love The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. And Agatha Christie too. Although I didn’t discover her until the past couple of years. And Then There Were None is my favorite of her books.
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I read a ton of James Patterson (mostly the Alex Cross series) after my mom died, because she had a TON of his books and my husband and I had recently moved to VA and for some reason I just…forgot about the library system (WHAT) and I didn’t have much else to read. That, and when people are like “I LOOOOOVE JAMES PATTERSON” since I’ve read the books I can tell them to find something better to read. While I love that Patterson keeps people reading…it’s just…ugh. The books are soooooo simple and the fact you can read one in about an hour and a half drives me nuts, because that thing just cost you $9-25 IT SHOULD LAST LONGER dammit!
My mom wouldn’t let me join the BSC club
I was sad about that.
SSR was my favorite time in school, too. We did it every year up through middle school in my district. I think it would have been too hard to coordinate at the high school level, though, but I used study hall for that most of the time.
I took a YA Lit class in grad school, too. It wasn’t my favorite lit class (I also took Children’s Lit and Multicultural Li) but I think it was because we were told which books we had to read. In my children’s lit class we got to read whatever we wanted. It was great. But I did discover His Dark Materials then
Oh Harry Potter! <3 I'm going to have to check out Charlotte Doyle just based on your note there; any book that makes kids beg for more is definitely automatically going on my TBR. I just took my reading & teaching adolescent lit class last semester & loved it! Turns out that I had read 6 of the 10 required novels (including The Fault in Our Stars, The Book Thief, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children; it was a great list). And I found some great books for my independent papers – Code Name Verity, Wonderstruck, Tuesdays at the Castle. Great post, Tara!
Reading the deliciously naughty thorn birds at the age of 14 on a seriously boring family break!
Being home sick and knocking out the last Harry Potter book in two days!
Also as a 5th grader secretly reading the Twilight Saga (:
BTW I absolutley love your posts! keep it up!