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12-14-2001, 07:10 PM
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As a reader Anneke, you have rights. Who says you have to finish every book you start? Only you. I often put aside books, or read more than one at the same time. Books have to fit your mood.
I confess I love to read. I always did. I can even recall as a kid I felt so frustrated because I had to depend on others to read to me. I couldn’t wait till I could read.
Books were, and still are, important to my parents. My father took us to the bookstore every few weeks to get us books. My sister and I must have read all of Enid Blyton books. They were, of course, translated in French and adapted.
In the car, on the way back home, I couldn’t wait until I was home to start a book, so I read in the car. I always read very fast and it bothered me, because books wouldn’t last long. To make them last longer, I would invent ways to slow myself down, I would either learn a page by hard before turning to the next or read the book upside down.
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12-15-2001, 07:45 AM
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Isa, I have read all the books of Enid Blyton too. Between you and me and the rest of 2000 members of Chef Talk somedays when I return home exhausted I read a book of Enyd Blydon to come back to my senses...
My parents did the mistake to teach me to read before I went to school. This is something I will never to to my children if I ever have any. The reason is that when I finally went to school I was so bored with the others in the classroom who were trying to pronounce a+ r = ar that soon got sick of school.
I loved to go just for the other's children company.
As for what Rachel says. Oh I agree. Why take everything and books so seriously?
Anneke I do he same thing.
My days begins beautifully with Enid Blydon and end dreadfully with Cato 
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12-15-2001, 06:32 PM
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Athenaeus,
It's because of Enid Blyton I wanted to go to France as a kid. The books were adapted so everyone had French name and ate French food. I think it was in The Gang Of Seven that I first read about chocolate bread. For years I tried to imagine what was a chocolate bread. I dream of eating this mysterious food for years. I was completely mystify by it.
Many years later I went to France. The first thing I did was buying a chocolate bread. It was even better than I could imagined.
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12-19-2001, 12:09 AM
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I never heard of Enid Blyton and if I never learned another thing from Chef Talk, thanks for the lead!!
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12-19-2001, 10:36 AM
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Debbie,
I think that Enid Blyton is now terribly old fashioned and reactionary, she was great in her time but you may discover her to be terribly clasist, racist and sexist. But she ws great for her time. but now there are much better children's books available!
rachel
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12-19-2001, 10:44 AM
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OMG you Brits when you decide to open your mouths...
How should a child know about sexism my dear Rachel? 
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12-19-2001, 10:47 AM
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I got Enid Blytonitis as a child, and you should have seen the prissy little madam that I became! Much to my Father's disgust!!
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12-19-2001, 10:50 AM
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And you call the Greeks melodramatic people!
I understand!
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12-19-2001, 10:59 AM
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Enid Blyton was a favourite of mine also. I read as many of the Famous Five and Secret Seven books that I could get when I was around 8 or 10. Wasn't there a Famous Five tv show or movie?
I was, am and will always be a Lucy Maud Montgomery fan. I grew up overly sentimental and somewhat old-fashioned, but those books still make me laugh and cry. I just re-read two "Anne" books last week. |
12-21-2001, 02:21 AM
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If you read to your children every day, they will be reading before they go to school. Go ahead! Reading is for education. School is for learning how to get along in the big bad world. They need both!
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