reading - was Re: Got tired to...

[Andromeda]

Oh my, Karen, I hope you were babysitting a pet or a house and not 
children.  Can you imagine growing up in a house with nothing to 
read?  A complete nightmare!

I do know what you mean about doing things in reverse, though.  I'm 
discovering all sorts of books I missed as a child/teen, and 
enjoying them thoroughly.

-Andromeda


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Karen Barker" 
<karenabarker at y...> wrote:
> I tend to read anything that's to hand!  One of the worst tortures 
for 
> me was when I went to babysit for a friend a few years ago.  I got 
> bored with the TV after a short time and started to look for 
something 
> to read.  She had nothing.  I mean literally nothing.  Not a 
> newspaper, not a magazine, not a book.  I couldn't believe it.  
She 
> didn't even have teletext on her TV!  I was climbing the walls by 
the 
> time she came home.
> 
> I seem to be doing things in reverse though.  I started reading my 
> Mum's Alistair McClean novels at about 11 and now I'm back to 
> reading 'childrens' books at age 41!
> 
> Karen