In the beginning...

...there were The Flyaways, a family who traveled in their miraculous flying machine having daring adventures with Goldilocks and Cinderella. The first in the 3-book series by Alice Dale Hardy was published by Grosset and Dunlap in 1925 and copies are almost extinct. Few people remember Ma and Pa, Tommy and Susie Flyaway now.

I became acquainted with them on my grandfather's lap, my dear Grandpa Baker who read and read and read to me every evening for as many years as I can remember. I would hold my breath as each chapter ending neared, hoping he would not stop. I would keep begging for "just one more" chapter until his voice got so hoarse I would have to run to his room to get his throat lozenges.

Over the years we covered all of Uncle Wiggly and Honey Bunch, the Bobbsey Twins, the Five Little Peppers, the Wind in the Willow series, some of them more than once. He read to me until long after I could read everything for myself, until I was into Beverly Gray, Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. I was safe and happy snuggled up on the couch with him and that feeling has never left me. I still read and read and read, and it still makes me feel safe and happy.

Monday, August 21, 2017

Okay, okay....

...so I haven't blogged in five years, but I'm back and I'm full of books. Obviously, at the reading rate of 100+ books per year, that's at least 500 I have to catch up on, and I think since I retired I've been reading at an even greater rate. There are some gems on my list as well as some awful crap that I wouldn't even finish. I will not name any unless it is something that attracted a lot of unwarranted attention. My favorite authors continue to be my favorites so I might duplicate something I have written before but you are not going to go back and read all my prior comments anyway, so you won't know. I realize that I will probably be forgetting some good ones that should go in here but I'll do my best. I wrote monthly book recommendations for our community newsletter for several years since we moved to Florida so that will be a partial reference. Hardcover has pretty much gone the way of the typewriter in my life, especially since I am no longer sitting in the midst of all that treasure at the library. With some exceptions, most of my reading is done on my Kindle (which has close to 3000 books on it, I keep deleting to have room for new ones). I don't care much for the local Rocky Bluff Library - I got mad when they wouldn't let me start a writers' group so I don't go there much. That's another whole story. So...it is nice to be back here and I hope you find this good to read. It will be fun for me.
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