So, after several years of behaving, gmail suddenly decided my dreamwidth notifications were spam today. Boooo. Was it because I talked about cats, gmail? Are spammers trying to draw people in with cats? Where can I find these spammers?
I was all set to borrow from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
silverr's list of questions and then I spent forever and a half thinking about it before I could come up with a specific memory of reading a book when I was young.
Like, I remember that I read books, but it bothered me a bit that I couldn't pin down a memory of reading with one of my parents, or for school, or on my own. The first thing I came up with was my fifth grade teacher reading The Hobbit to the class, but I moved into town halfway through the school year and in the middle of her reading the story, so I had no freaking clue what was happening, and I just spaced out.
Also, I was, and remain, terrible at listening to things.
Earlier than that, I remember Scholastic book sales, but I could not begin to tell you what I ordered. That's probably because I tended to blaze through books, so they wouldnt have had much time to make an impression.
(The absolute earliest contenders would have been Brambly Hedge, or Beatrix Potter, or the Mr. Men and Little Miss books.)
But! finally! I remembered the Mrs.Piggle Wiggle books. Even then, I'm not sure I haven't accidentally constructed a whole memory by trying too hard, but at least here, I definitely remember the illustrations and some of the stories as I experienced them. I feel like I rememver reading them in my bedroom where we lived until I was in second grade, but it's possible that's because I just can't picture the bedroom I had in third through fifth grade. (Like, I have a very clear image of the exterior, the stairwell, my best friend's house, the living room of a kid whose house I went to precisely once, but zero idea what either my room or my parents' looked like. Brains are weird, y'all.)
Oh, god, and this - Mouse Tales book, which I am fairly certain is the one with the story of the mouse who walked and walked until among other things he had to replace his feet.
I was all set to borrow from
silverr's list of questions and then I spent forever and a half thinking about it before I could come up with a specific memory of reading a book when I was young. Like, I remember that I read books, but it bothered me a bit that I couldn't pin down a memory of reading with one of my parents, or for school, or on my own. The first thing I came up with was my fifth grade teacher reading The Hobbit to the class, but I moved into town halfway through the school year and in the middle of her reading the story, so I had no freaking clue what was happening, and I just spaced out.
Also, I was, and remain, terrible at listening to things.
Earlier than that, I remember Scholastic book sales, but I could not begin to tell you what I ordered. That's probably because I tended to blaze through books, so they wouldnt have had much time to make an impression.
(The absolute earliest contenders would have been Brambly Hedge, or Beatrix Potter, or the Mr. Men and Little Miss books.)
But! finally! I remembered the Mrs.Piggle Wiggle books. Even then, I'm not sure I haven't accidentally constructed a whole memory by trying too hard, but at least here, I definitely remember the illustrations and some of the stories as I experienced them. I feel like I rememver reading them in my bedroom where we lived until I was in second grade, but it's possible that's because I just can't picture the bedroom I had in third through fifth grade. (Like, I have a very clear image of the exterior, the stairwell, my best friend's house, the living room of a kid whose house I went to precisely once, but zero idea what either my room or my parents' looked like. Brains are weird, y'all.)
Oh, god, and this - Mouse Tales book, which I am fairly certain is the one with the story of the mouse who walked and walked until among other things he had to replace his feet.
