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Mar 2013

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Books!Books! Books! Journey down memory lane!

Hey All, Hiya..

..I was on a blog last week, where books were discussed & it prompted me to search my memory banks for those I had read.
So, without further ado & a time line as my guide...I came up with these.

.. Please feel welcome to add your selections or choices

My very first book! Goes back decades ago...

And I wonder why my doctor says I'm having memory problems!

Ah! I haven't paid his bill!

Haha...

anyone remember these characters?.... Noddy, Big Ears & PC Plod...

Aesop's fables followed soon after..

to be continued.....

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market39●adelaide, South Australia Australia

Mar 23, 2013●124 Blogs●1,693 Comments

St_Elmo

your a bookmaker

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

Hi Market...good to see you back...Yea, I'm a bookie!
Wanna bet on something...here's a tip! "Crab Apple" in the 5th race!

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fotinia0737●Portimao, Faro Portugal

Mar 23, 2013●21 Blogs●2,583 Comments

Hi all

Good blog

My first book was a primer in school
and I hate books in childhood

But then I read voraciously and I had a lot of books that I can be called the first and a huge world to boot...

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

Hi Fotin...

Feel free to contribute some Ukrainian popular books of the time (with English sub-titles of course

)
Books are in a world of their own.....I'm sure you'll agree..

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market39●adelaide, South Australia Australia

Mar 23, 2013●124 Blogs●1,693 Comments

st elmo.....i will bet al i have ....do you except the decimal point

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fotinia0737●Portimao, Faro Portugal

Mar 23, 2013●21 Blogs●2,583 Comments

Thank you for your trust ELMO
Immediately sit down to work

For me, books have always been an important part of the world and with each year more and more

I'm probably still getting old?...

Nooooooooo !!!

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

I entered the world of Robert Louis Stevenson soon after.....

fascinating author...who wrote timeless classics like:- Treasure Island , Prince Otto, The Child’s Garden of Verse , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped , The Merry Men, The Black Arrow.
Pity...he had a very short life & passed on at 44, I think!

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

Market...

Fotin...

as long as you're not using books to prop up a table or bed, coz one of the legs are broken! I know some people who have done that

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market39●adelaide, South Australia Australia

Mar 23, 2013●124 Blogs●1,693 Comments

st elmo ...nothing like reading a book on a cold winters day by the fire????OH wait i dont have a fire place

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#10

Mark....yep, one of the joys of reading is a good setting; fireplace, ocean, dam or lake side...

if none available, why - the toilet would suffice!

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market39●adelaide, South Australia Australia

Mar 23, 2013●124 Blogs●1,693 Comments

#11

st elmo

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fotinia0737●Portimao, Faro Portugal

Mar 23, 2013●21 Blogs●2,583 Comments

#12

I have ...
Rocking chairs are my glasses, my desk lamp...
My book and cozy evening (sometimes until the early hours)

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#13

Sawwy..

back to the mission..

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer by ~~Market~~

Mark Twain

I lived for 6 years, barely 75 meters away from a river & actually had the chance to practice the lifestyle of Mark Twain. I spent hours fishing, swimming & wandering along the banks of the Umgeni River..I didn't meet my "convict" though!

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#14

Fotin ~ rocking chair...

haven't got there yet.. think I'll prefer a hammock, coz I have plenty trees in my yard!

Life ~ You could write a "Ding a ling, bling a blong" book! I'm sure it would be a best seller!

Hey, throw us some famous Arabian authors...

Reminds me...

Arabian nights..

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Welela●Secret City, Buskerud Norway

Mar 23, 2013●2,822 Comments

#15

Oh, the love, the love of books. I share that love with you and cvan proudly tell I have read thousands or 10 thousands of book during my life, and I still love to read them. I use the local library every month and I have read such wonderful and different books over the years I can not tell about them all. I too started to read Nancy Drew, and the Hardy Boys, and then I read some book from the war time, my mom had. They were Norwegian Books with no translation, but they were good books. Then I started to go to the library and went true all the books from Agatha Christie. Oh my they were good... the best book serie I have ever read is from a Norwegain-Swedish lady with the name of Margit Sandemo. She wrote a saga about witches, troll, warlocks, love and hate and love again, and this saga is still 47 books I read about once a year. I am so familiar with the characters it's like they are family to me.
So the world of books is very important to me... I love to get a new book, smell it and then get to read it and fall into its world.
Thank you for bringing this subject up... I do really love books.

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#16

Welela ~ am glad, you're one of us...

I actually think it unnatural if a person doesn't read & would have difficulty in relating to that person.
I will look up Margit Sandemo, thanks...

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CuddlingSoul●Gadsden, Alabama USA

Mar 23, 2013●3 Blogs●628 Comments

#17

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#18

Wow! I'm only 1/3 through in my time line...another 30 years more to go

Time for a non-commercial break...

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#19

cuddling....

That's fell under comics section for me...

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Lukeon●Port Elizabeth 6000, Eastern Cape South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●484 Blogs●7,155 Comments

#20

el, nowadays if you ask youngster whats their favorite book they answer you in an alien language.

Those were the good ol days..

Now its,,,

and

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Lukeon●Port Elizabeth 6000, Eastern Cape South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●484 Blogs●7,155 Comments

#21

This oke comes a looong way..

Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy Tales and Stories
English Translation: H. P. Paull (1872)

1835 The Tinder-Box
1835 Little Claus and Big Claus
1835 The Princess and the Pea
1835 Little Ida’s Flowers
1835 Little Tiny or Thumbelina
1835 The Saucy Boy
1835 The Travelling Companion
1836 This Fable Is Intended for You
1836 The Talisman
1836 God Can Never Die
1836 The Little Mermaid
1837 The Emperor’s New Suit
1838 The Goloshes of Fortune
1838 The Daisy
1838 The Brave Tin Soldier
1838 The Wild Swans
1838 The Garden of Paradise
1838 The Flying Trunk
1838 The Storks
1839 The Elf of the Rose

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#22

Luke...

I blame the education authorities for that...our time, we had weekly book reviews & you had to read 1 x book per week! Sadly that's no longer the case...

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#23

Yep, thanks Luke, read & forgotten them...weren't they two brothers ( Dutch, Holland or Netherlands - I seem to recall)?

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#24

Okay Life, my mistake....give us some Finnish literature - with English sub-titles....

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lifeisbest●Helsinki, Southern Finland Finland

Mar 23, 2013●19 Blogs●735 Comments

#25

In Finish i only read some special books and finnish language books, magazine and news

NO romance Momance, story mestory things not at all Ha ha haand and i talk blah

with people everyyy day and hour until afternoon and rest at home

am talkative

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#26

From the ages 13 - 16 my brother (1 year older) & I were the district "friendly personal book exchange". Any book was acquired, lent to someone else & re-borrowed through a network of friends....word got around!

So, into our lives came The Great West in the form of Louis L'Amour & his marvelous collection. Please remember in our time, we had no TV, Cell phone, iPad, Laptop etc....We had to find & make our own entertainment!
Girls...Yea!

Somehow, every pretty girl had 5 mean brothers then! I know, coz, we were 5 brothers!

Louis Dearborn L'Amour

Via him, I rode the cowboy trails, branded steers, took part in gun fights in border town saloons & lived with the Cherokee & Apache...more than a few westerners actually living there today.

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lifeisbest●Helsinki, Southern Finland Finland

Mar 23, 2013●19 Blogs●735 Comments

#27

Hey ElilomalinaSA ding dang dalango sure u read Sinuhe.... Mika Waltari and he was Finnish and from Helsinki, me and my mother for some times where falling love with this book, i was reading it two times

but then and now i chnaged my mood and been interest with other matters and books, its me all thye time in change

cant stay on one line

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egyptian

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lavina●Paradise, Indonesia

Mar 23, 2013●710 Comments

#28

ahhh knew some of those book,

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Ed1941●Bullhead City,, Arizona USA

Mar 23, 2013●151 Blogs●4,758 Comments

#29

I didn't know books until I was 51 or thereabouts. Couldn't stand homework so school books were out! Then I pursued a career and I got fired so what was left to do? I started moping and reading. I became an instant John Steinbeck fan! Why or how? I don't know! But I am crazy about his books and writing!

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lifeisbest●Helsinki, Southern Finland Finland

Mar 23, 2013●19 Blogs●735 Comments

#30

Ah never Eli, ur not old, dont think like sad people

Be hap happy haplove
And also u never ever cant forget me

can u?

Ding dang dalang... sing me a song

Take care Elilove, eat weel, rest well, and dont eat my berries

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lavina●Paradise, Indonesia

Mar 23, 2013●710 Comments

#31

Still like some those comic such as Donal Duck, Tin tin

from Indonesia on 1980's

and most of story book about Indonesian history

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Lukeon●Port Elizabeth 6000, Eastern Cape South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●484 Blogs●7,155 Comments

#32

Libby

,, hope you having a wonderful afternoon. Stay happy, wealthy, and wise...

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lifeisbest●Helsinki, Southern Finland Finland

Mar 23, 2013●19 Blogs●735 Comments

#33

Ed Ed Ediloooooooooooove

Present to Edilove a big garden of health and happiness flowers

youhoooooooooo we r alive tahts a true

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lifeisbest●Helsinki, Southern Finland Finland

Mar 23, 2013●19 Blogs●735 Comments

#34

Love love love lucky luck, thaanks

and u too plus many blessing to u too

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#35

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Wilbur Smith -series
Anyone who wants an insight in to Africa/South Africa should make an attempt to read his books.....
This man has written so many best sellers - it would only be fair to direct you to his website....and also serve as a reminder to me, when I feel like spending $$$ again....

When the Lion Feeds
The Dark of the Sun
The Sound of Thunder
Shout at the Devil
Gold Mine
The Diamond Hunters
The Sunbird
Eagle in the Sky
The Eye of the Tiger
Cry Wolf

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Lukeon●Port Elizabeth 6000, Eastern Cape South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●484 Blogs●7,155 Comments

#36

1/2 a liter gonna cause beeeg problems... Good blog

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#37

Luke ~ that's normally for two people....1/2 liter is for me & my friend carries the bail money!

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#38

Just remembered ...

Just William series - somewhere between 8 - 10 years old.
good kid stuff...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-William-Richmal-Crompton/dp/1405054573

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St_ElmoOP●Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Mar 23, 2013●17 Blogs●1,424 Comments

#39

Storm's a-brewing...

No! this is not a book, a storm is about to hit here in seconds, so have to log of for safety...

to be continued!

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scouse27●tiel, Gelderland Netherlands

Mar 23, 2013●72 Blogs●989 Comments

#40

st elmo good blog,its all subjective

i read war and peace(what a thick book)for me nothing.terry pratchet made me lol and that also is privie to the reader

i dont know

but you must know there are people in the so called civilised world who do not read or write very well,maybe they did not go to your school??jmo

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