"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 1/12/2014 5:31 PM, DreadfulBitch wrote:
>>>> On 1/12/2014 5:00 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>>> I just don't care. And I never said that I had never heard of it. I
>>>>> believe it was a book or a series of books and then a movie. I only
>>>>> like certain types of books and most movies do not interest me.
>>>>> Whatever genre it is, does not interest me and most certainly would
>>>>> not
>>>>> interest my daughter.
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>>>> Have you or daughter read Nancy Drew books? Those are the books that
>>>> got me hooked on reading, but I was much younger than daughter is now
>>>> when I started my first Nancy Drew book.
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>>> I had a whole slew of Nancy Drew books. I was reading them in the
>>> 1960's even before I started going to school. I guess I was precocious.
>>> I gather they were written for the pre-teen/young teen readers. I
>>> had quite a collection of Nancy Drew books. I read them all again
>>> before finally donating them to a library when I moved.
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>> I think they were written for that age but at that age, I was only
>> interested in books written for adults. Had I seen such a book in
>> perhaps 2nd or 3rd grade then I might have liked it.
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> I've been an avid reader all my life, so much so that I once nearly burned
> down my bedroom by using a candle. The window was open and it blew the
> curtain onto the flame I shouted down that there was a fire and my
> Father thought was dreaming and said ... yes, yes, go back to sleep ....

I used candles and a flashlight too.