Books With Memories

     

 

     Hello!  Grace, here!  Fun fact about me... I love to read! I honestly cannot remember a time when I wasn't reading and though I have slowed down in the recent years, I cannot wait till my nephews are old enough to read so I'll be a very annoying Aunt. "Have you finished it yet?", What page are you on?" "Didn't you love that part? NO?????? HOW COULD YOU???? I MEAN... HOW...????", you get the idea! I have been rearranging my book shelf multiple times over the past few weeks, as I keep buying new books, lending out old books and getting them back... needless to say I am running out of room and it is VERY sad when you have to put a buying limit on .50 books because you have no room for them... VERY SAD. Anywho I was going through my books and realized that certain books have specific memories attached to them such as when I got them/ who gave them to me/ when I read them, and so here I am to share a few with you. 

Left Behind: The Kids Series

By

Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye

     When I was about 12, I discovered this series and fell in love! Kinda weird, it being the Rapture, a serious subject, but they're really good books, fun, fast moving, and always had a horrible cliff hanger at the end of each book. Our local Library has a 10 book limit and back in the day when I had much more time to read, about 8 or 9 of those would be Left Behinds; mind you, they are very small books! Anyways, by the time I was at the book 27 or so, my mother bought a scripture memory CD that we played constantly and since I read mostly in the car (now I get carsick) when ever I hear the CD, I always think of those books! Specifically of Lionel falling off a cliff and getting his arm trapped under a boulder!

Wings Of Dawn

By

Sigmund Brouwer

     This book is one of my absolute favorites. Our friend Lee introduced it to us when we flew to her house in TX. They live about 3 hours from Dallas (where we flew in) so all the way home we took turns reading it and she kept asking "What page are you on? Tell me when you get to such and such part". We loved it so much that when we would call her, we would read it out-loud to each other like a script and dramatize our favorite parts!

The Brotherband Chronicles

By

John Flanagan

     A friend lent this to me over Sukkot (Festival of Booths) where we were sleeping in a tent on the back porch for a week. The dogs and cats love that holiday because they get to sleep with us in fluffy blanket heaven. One day I came out to get something and found that our puppy Teddy had chewed the corners off the book... that was not ours... so I had to buy her a new copy and I got to keep the gnawed copy and that is how I own it! P.S. Teddie's other escapades include chewing the corners off the library's copy of "How To Train Your Dog"!

Calico Captive

By

Elizabeth George Speare

     Okay, so I read this book a couple of years ago during my "American Indian Infatuation" and liked everything ,but the ending. If you have not read this book WARNING SPOILERS: At the time I read it I think I skipped the first bit and went right to the Indian part (cause as I said AMERICAN INDIAN INFATUATION), so I missed the whole ball scene in the beginning and therefore was very upset when in the end Miriam chose Phines over the trapper fellow (I cannot remember what his name is ... Louis? Phillipee?). I therefore did not reread the book for many years... until a few weeks ago! Now that the WHOLE book has been read and taken into account... I can see why Miriam was wise... but part of me still wants her to get with Pierre? Jacques? Also I LOVE LOVE LOVE the maypole part! It sounds like soooooo much fun!!!

The Andersonville Sentinals

By
Tracy Groot

I read this book on our way to Texas to visit our friends... in a truck... with a freezer full of frozen chickens in the back... over "undergoing construction" highway... in a truck with VERY good shock absorption springs! So the full story is, every year my family raises and butchers several hundred organic chickens for ourselves, our family and friends. Our good friends in Texas hadn't been able to make it that year, so we loaded a small freezer into the back of Dad's truck and filled it with their processed chickens and set out! As we went through Dallas, road workers were torn up the road for repairs, therefore the going was very bumpy in a normal car. Dad's truck has extremely springy springs on it, so we were bouncing all over the place, laughing our heads off and that is my memory connected to this book! Also it is a good book to read... I need to reread it to refresh my memory!

Two Girls of Gettysburg
By
Lisa Klein

Remember above I said I used to read mostly in the car? Well I did... unfortunately now I get carsick WAY to quickly... it's sad! Anyways I read this book out loud to Mamma and Katherine in the car and I remember at one point road workers had just put fresh gravel and oil down on the road we always take and so there was REALLY LOUD pinging against the car for quite a few miles. Now the logical thing to do was wait till the road ended and the noise subsided... but the book had to be back at the library in a couple of days, so what did I do? I shouted the next chapter over the clanging outside the car, much to the amusement of my family! *sigh* The things we do in the name of book reading! (This book is really good, by the way,...well, at least I think it is.  Katherine, on the other hand, has mixed feelings/opinions on the subject! Mayhaps, I shall review it in a future post!)

Well, that's all folks! Do you have any favorite or not so favorite books that have memories attached to them? I'd love to hear about them in the comment section, I am always looking to squeeze another book onto my shelf... does anyone have a bookshelf they want to get rid of???!!!!!
Grace