Subj : Re: Books
To : Mortar
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Sun May 04 2025 03:04 pm
-=> Mortar wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Mo> Re: Re: Books
Mo> By: Jimmy Anderson to Ogg on Sat May 03 2025 15:48:53
> My mom> would go to town on Saturday morning to get
> groceries and she's drop me off at the library.
Mo> Similar story, though I don't remember if my Ma hung around or not. I
Mo> was about seven or eight and didn't spend a lot of time in the kiddie
Mo> section. I was more interested in what the big kids were reading, so I
Mo> was usually in the Young Adult section.
I did graduate to that, which is where I got my first taste of 'deeper'
sci-fi and time travel stuff. :-)
Mo> In fact, that's where I got my first sci-fi book, A Wrinkle in Time by
Mo> Madeleine L'Engle. Been a sci-fi reader ever since.
Mine too!!! Tried to revisit it a few years ago and just didn't hold
the same appeal to me. Probably because I'm pushing 60 now. :-)
Mo> Another book I
Mo> remember from back then, but haven't seen it since, is, The Shy
Mo> Stegosaurus by Evelyn S. Lampman. There were two in the series, but I
Mo> don't remember which I read. I don't remember the story details, but I
Mo> know I liked it and I've never forgotten I read it...weird.
Interesting. Never heard of it. :-)
It was years later, but a buddy of mine turned me onto the Guardians
of the Flame series. A group of D&D players get pulled into another
world where they are actually IN the world. Was very good too!
Mo> For some reason, I was also into flags of the world. There were these
Mo> pocket-sized books that had nothing but pictures of flags froom all
Mo> over the world, not just the usual country/state/province, etc., but
Mo> variations on those flags used for different purposes/occations. I
Mo> would often draw some of the flags I saw and put 'em on the fridge.
Not something I was into, but that's cool!
Mo> I was also into chess books. Didn't know how to play, but I found the
Mo> mechanics facinating. My favorites were the ones that showed
Mo> move-by-move of games from famous chess players. These often included
Mo> lots of pics of the board as the game progressed. Ironically, I never
Mo> got any good at it, so I switched my attention to backgammon, which I
Mo> did got good at. Still, I thourghly those books.
Learned chess and backgammon both. I liekd chess okay, but I prefer
the latter as well. :-) Ever play on boardgamearena.com ?
... You may start by impressing - _ME_ !! - Worf
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