meri75 is offline meri75 Post #1  November 6,2010, 8:41pm
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I love a good second hand bookshop or stall. I have been known to spend an entire day browsing such places and purchase not a thing (to the annoyance of the owners!)

Yesterday, while at Salamanca Markets, I had a lovely time checking out the books on sale ... I didn't buy because they were toting too close to new sale prices.

But I was very, very tempted by the Cheese Encyclopaedia I spotted ... maybe next weekend!
 
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At age 11, for Christmas that year I was given a brand new book: Emily of New Moon by L.M Montgomery. I loved it, I loved the old fashioned story line, and I loved the cats. Plus Emily was my age - I could identify with her character.

As the years went by, we couldn't afford books, not even second hand books, most of the time. I must have been about 19 before I could get the next book in the Emily trilogy. By then, I knew it was a trilogy.

But it wasn't until I was 28 that I finally got the final Emily book at a Sunday afternoon river-side market. Best $4 I ever spent ... I like complete sets!

I then thoroughly ignored my family the rest of the afternoon ...
 
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I got my love of reading from my mother; I started with the classics.

I bought books with my allowance. The first ones, age 10-11...were Trixie Belden books. She was a younger Nancy Drew, solving mysteries at age 13, if I recall correctly.

I was enthralled with The Boxcar Children...six kids ran away and lived in a boxcar in the woods.

Bobbsey Twins...two sets of fraternal twins, very young, having adventures.

My parents gave me a Bible at a very young age...very nice, leather, gilt pages, engraved with my name.

The last books they gave me were the entire Shakespeare...leather, gilt pages, satin ribbons.

I was fortunate in my childhood.

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One of my favorite childhood authors was Marguerite Henry. She wrote the series of (mostly) horse stories such as "Misty of Chincoteague". I now enjoy giving these books as gifts to young ladies in my life!

I have always, and still do, love receiving books as a Christmas gift. I believe I was about 13 when my parents gave me, "A St. Nicholas Anthology". I still have it...a collection of Christmas stories and poetry.

I just loved the Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter. Mom often took us to the library where there was a children's reading room that overlooks the woods and river. That's where the Pete Rabbit books were kept!

Also received "Writer's Market" when I was 13. I was an aspiring writer (still am!) and I simply drooled over all the possible places to send my work to. I would see how much they paid per word and try to calculate how much I'd make!

Like J8A I was also fortunate in my childhood. Not a lot of money, but oh so rich in other ways!
 
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I love a good used bookstore, Meri! We have an excellent used bookstore here in Nashville that is located in an old electronics (I think) store building. It is HUGE and has almost anything you can think of! My kids and I have been known to spend hours there, but we don't usually get away without buying anything! One of the things we like about it is that we can trade books we've already read for different ones.

I have to agree with j8a, too. I read the Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, and Bobbsey Twin books, many of which were passed down to me from my mother and havenow been pawwed on to my daughter. We didn't often have a lot of money when I was growing up, but we were often given books as gifts and went to the library regularly.
 
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