Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
This week's topic is Bookish Memories. First off, let me say that I have a horrible memory. I can't even remember books I read last month let alone remember things about my bookish life growing up. But here we go.
1. As I said, I have a horrible memory and I don't remember the first book I read. Reading has always just been there. I'm actually in awe of people who can remember their first book.
2. I do remember I had one of those Disney Read-Along books. It was Cinderella and I would play the record on my little record player (I guess I am really dating myself here!) and the sound of Tinker Bell's chimes was the signal to turn the page. The narrator would say "When you hear this sound *chimes ring*, turn the page". I can still hear the sound of the chimes in my head.
3. My third-grade teacher read the Ramona Quimby books to our class. Once a week we would gather around her and sit on the floor and listen intently. She would always ask someone to give a little rundown of where we were in the book and to announce what chapter we were reading that week. I could never remember the chapter name.
4. I was obsessed with the Little House on the Prairie books and The Baby-Sitters Club books in elementary school. I desperately wanted to make maple candy using maple syrup and snow like the Ingalls did. Also, I was super proud that it would only take me a couple hours to read a Baby-Sitters Club book, mainly because there were always the same 20 pages at the beginning of each book where they went over who each character was and how the Baby-Sitters Club was formed.
5. Speaking of The Baby-Sitters Club, I once tried to hide candy around my room, like Claudia, but since I only had one candy bar, it didn't really work.
6. The first author's talk I went to was Jodi Picoult at Barnes and Noble in Boston. We sat in the cafe area and listened to her speak and then she signed books for everyone. I thought it was super exciting because she was famous and I had never really met anyone famous before. I'm pretty sure I still have the book she signed for me.
7. Interview with the Vampire was the first real book I remember reading that was then made into a movie. I was so excited because I loved that book and I couldn't wait to see it on the big screen. That also started me on the path of proclaiming that the book is always better than the movie.
8. In middle school, I checked out and read all of the Nancy Drew books from the school library. The books were those smallish blue and yellow hardback books. I remember thinking Nancy Drew was so cool and smart because she had a car and so many friends and solved crimes.
9. The Scholastic book fairs were the best! You would get that little flyer and you could check off on the back which books you wanted. And then the day that the fair arrived, you had to eat outside the cafeteria because that was where the fair was set up but that was okay because the cafeteria was transformed and there were so many books on tables everywhere. I always wanted to buy all the books.
10. I miss all the bookstores that have gone out of business. I used to go to Waldenbooks and Crown Books in the mall and browse at all The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High books on the shelves. I especially miss Borders; it was my favorite bookstore and I loved their cafe. There used to be one near one of my old jobs and I would go there on my lunch break. I had so many books with that Borders barcode sticker on them.
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