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   Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:54:25 JST Matthew Loxton

   #writerscoffeeclub 8: Did you like to read as a child? Which books were your favorites?

   Tons
   Read Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Michael Moorcock, Asimov, etc.
   Also read psychology textbooks, because who wouldn't?

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     Mary625 (mary625@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:54:21 JST Mary625

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     Interesting! I'll have to look up who wrote ours. I don't recall anything like that. I remember a great deal about the atmosphere and animals though.

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     Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:54:22 JST Matthew Loxton

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     Oh yes!
     We had the Pears Encyclopedia which had all manner of useful things like the rules of darts, how to blow good soap bubbles, and how to get stains out of a bonnet.
     We also had the "Children's Encyclopedia"edited by Arthur Mee, which was a trove of very British views of the world, and had an entire section on why we would never set foot on the moon.

     Also Enid Blyton and her rather cringeworthy stories of Noddy

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     Mary625 (mary625@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:54:23 JST Mary625

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     Except for the psychology textbooks, same here. Though I did read the children's encyclopedias my parents bought us.

     One you didn't mention Richard Adams. Watership Down was my favorite book

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     caracabe (caracabe@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:54:49 JST caracabe

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     @Mary625 @mloxton I’d add The Phantom Tollbooth, A Wrinkle in Time, and the Earthsea trilogy, as well as World Book Encyclopedia and any specialized dictionary (dictionary of archaeology, of psychology, of philosophy…) I came across.