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From: maggie_bo at comcast.net <maggie_bo>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:43:19 +0000
No, Mary, it's not just you. I think that's one big reason why I wish I had read certain books when I was younger--much as I still love reading, it isn't the same now. There are still times I read a book and find myself thinking about it all day, so much so that it can for a time seem more important than my "real" life. Yet, I don't think I ever completely lose my grip on reality while reading a book the way I did when I was younger. As I write this--and I've never formulated this thought before--I think one of the main reasons I am attracted to children's literature is because of that special relationship between reader and book that exists when the reader is NOT an adult.
Maggie
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Clark, Mary" <mary.clark at smusd.org>
> Maggie wrote:
>
> << What's unfortunate is that we can never go back in time and read a book in
> an earlier stage of our lives!>>
>
> And I'd like to ask the experts: Is it only in childhood that we can get lost in
> a book? As a child, I'd be so transported into another world by a book that my
> mother used to half-jokingly shout, "Come back!" to get my attention. I see
> students in my library so absorbed in their reading that their class leaves
> without them, and I startle them when I call their names. Yet I can't recall
> being that engrossed in a book since high school, and I've read thousands of
> wonderful books since then.
>
> Do we lose that ability to disappear in a book as we age? Or is this fierce
> concentration I'm nostalgic merely a lack of reading fluency, that fades as we
> become more fluent readers? Please don't tell me it's just me!
>
> Mary
>
> Mary Clark
> Library Media Tech I
> La Costa Meadows Elementary School
> Carlsbad, CA USA
> 760-290-2128
> Mary.clark at smusd.org
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Received on Thu 25 May 2006 10:43:19 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:43:19 +0000
No, Mary, it's not just you. I think that's one big reason why I wish I had read certain books when I was younger--much as I still love reading, it isn't the same now. There are still times I read a book and find myself thinking about it all day, so much so that it can for a time seem more important than my "real" life. Yet, I don't think I ever completely lose my grip on reality while reading a book the way I did when I was younger. As I write this--and I've never formulated this thought before--I think one of the main reasons I am attracted to children's literature is because of that special relationship between reader and book that exists when the reader is NOT an adult.
Maggie
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Clark, Mary" <mary.clark at smusd.org>
> Maggie wrote:
>
> << What's unfortunate is that we can never go back in time and read a book in
> an earlier stage of our lives!>>
>
> And I'd like to ask the experts: Is it only in childhood that we can get lost in
> a book? As a child, I'd be so transported into another world by a book that my
> mother used to half-jokingly shout, "Come back!" to get my attention. I see
> students in my library so absorbed in their reading that their class leaves
> without them, and I startle them when I call their names. Yet I can't recall
> being that engrossed in a book since high school, and I've read thousands of
> wonderful books since then.
>
> Do we lose that ability to disappear in a book as we age? Or is this fierce
> concentration I'm nostalgic merely a lack of reading fluency, that fades as we
> become more fluent readers? Please don't tell me it's just me!
>
> Mary
>
> Mary Clark
> Library Media Tech I
> La Costa Meadows Elementary School
> Carlsbad, CA USA
> 760-290-2128
> Mary.clark at smusd.org
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