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I'm all zingy, zappy, and fizzy. I think I'll be reading late into the night.

Blueberries in nonfat yogurt make me happy.

Question of the day, following a discussion at D's about childhood reading: What book or books in childhood did you particularly love? Which one or ones did you reread multiple times? Which one would you go back and read now, as an adult?

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Date: 2003-11-03 10:10 am (UTC)
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To copy some previous answers:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Phantom Tollbooth
A Wrinkle in Time (I never read the other books in the series)
Anything Jules Verne
Anything H.G. Wells
There was an Asimov series called "Robot City," as I recall, that was not actually written by Asimov and was aimed for teens and kids that I enjoyed. I think they were mostly mysteries, and specifically locked-room mysteries. I'm not so sure about the preset re-read value, though.
I had a teacher read us aloud "The 21 Balloons," but I never retained the name of the book, so all through my teens and adulthood, I would have little flashback memories to the story, but be aggravated because I could never remember what it was. About a year ago, I did one of my pretty-much-yearly web searches for the book and finally found the title! It was quickly ordered from Amazon, read in an evening, and made me a very happy little monkey.

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