Friday Five
Time again for the Friday Five.
1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
Tom Swift books, Choose Your Own Adventure, C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, you name it. I read a shitload when I was a kid.
2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
I've already shared most of them.
3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
Nope. For the most part, unlike movies, video games, TV shows and music, the books I've ready haven't gotten stale with age.
4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
My mom tells me I learned Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll at some absurdly young age, but I'm pretty sure I memorized it before I could actually read it.
5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you?
No, I can't. I know I've sort of come full-circle, as I now spend a lot of my reading time reading children's stories back to the kids.