on 05-02-2014 08:38 AM
I loved reading Heidi and Anne of Green Gables when I was young (and a few times later, as well).
In answering some of the other threads here, I realized that I was in fact, like those characters.
I too, had an affinity with older people in my life; my grandfather mainly. He was patient and understanding. The joy in his eyes when he saw me resolve a problem, or discover something new was so encouraging. My love of gardening, and reading resembles his life.
DEB (Heidi Anne)
on 07-02-2014 12:04 AM
Helen Forrester in her autobiographical work, "Twopence to Cross the Mersey."
on 07-02-2014 02:14 AM
on 07-02-2014 07:27 AM
on 07-02-2014 09:06 AM
on 07-02-2014 12:07 PM
All these lovely characters like Noddy, Anne of Green Gables etc.
What on earth does it say about me, cos now I'm worried.
My favourite author as a child (pre-teen and teen) was Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and The Pendulum, etc
Couldn't get enough of it.
Dark, very dark
on 07-02-2014 12:14 PM
Cinderella
on 07-02-2014 12:20 PM
Yes, I loved Agatha Christie as well as Poe. But I couldn't see myself as Miss Marple or Hercules Poirot. Is there a character with whom you particularly associated ?
DEB
on 07-02-2014 12:44 PM
Funny, I was always a book reader and yet, I never associated myself
with any character.
I think I must have had enough personal drama as a kid that the written
word just transported me without the need to be any one of them.
The personal drama was probably why I liked Poe
on 07-02-2014 12:47 PM
Reading is a wonderful way to "stop the world" for awhile.
DEB
on 07-02-2014 01:04 PM
I'm Winni the Pooh with head in the honeypot only it's empty. ::