From the Broke and the Bookish this weeks topic is Books I Wish I had read when I was a kid...
Hmm, I'm pretty sure I won't get to ten.
1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - this seems like one of those everyone knows the story, but few have read it books. That's my excuse at least.
2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Pirates! Arrrgh!
3. The Hounds of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is too light in my reading history.
4. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne. I have this at home. It seems like the kind of adventure story I would have more enjoyed as a boy than an adult.
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Need to have a 'scary' book on the list.
6. Any of the Hardy Boys books. I like mysteries today, seems I would have liked these as a kid.
7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. I read Huck Finn freshman year of college. It, too, should have been read when I was younger. What was wrong with my teachers?
I guess that will do it for now...
I never read most of these when I was younger either. What were we reading in school? Great list!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about this...I don't remember much in the way of assigned reading in elementary school...I remember having to read and do book reports, but I think it was our choice. As a result, I read a lot of "Best halfbacks of the NFL" and a boat-load of Mickey Mantle biographies. In middle school, I remember sixth grade being assigned The Hobbit...seventh grade Johnny Tremain...eighth grade Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream and Taming of the Shrew. Most of the other assigned reading seemed to be short stories in our English text book. HS had a lot of assigned reading but it was getting more into "adult" books - though I did love the pieces we read of Beowulf and thing that would appeal to the kid too.
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ReplyDeleteOoooh, classics!
Robert Louis Stevenson is a writer I would have loved to have read as a child . . . if only because I kept trying and stopping with his books. =( I must have started Treasure Island three times before finally reading it from cover to cover (which I had to do because a boy I was tutoring at the time had been assigned to read it). I gave up on Kidnapped after two tries. =( But I'll probably get to it again in the future, as I know from my Treasure Island experience that I can finish a Stevenson novel!
Alice and Treasure Island are both on my children's TBR list. They just don't know it yet...
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