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My love of books began with my father. Albeit I didn’t know that at the time. I was two or three and didn’t know anything. He would read to me before bedtime. I’d sit on his lap. I remember this, or think I do. Dad wouldn’t read children’s books or stories to me, no. He read me the great stories of Greek Mythology. The book was Gods, Heroes, and Men.
Obvious to me now is that that was about attachment and bonding. Books were just the means of that.
I didn’t start reading on my own, as best I can remember, until middle school. I got hooked on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ TARZAN series. My friends were all into Burroughs’ science fiction; but not me. I don’t know why.
Additionally, I was into baseball. And consumed sports books, specifically about Mickey Mantle and the New York Yankees.
My first “book review” was written in the sixth grade (1962) about the Mantle book. I’ve still got it. That, too, is a mystery to me.
Those two book are the originals (c. 1955, 1961). Which makes them about 65 years old. How I kept them? I’ve no idea.
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61*: Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and one magical summer
My Favorite Books: ranked by others
Mark Jabbour’s 3 favorite reads in 2023
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The Messiah Complex and the Treehouse
George Bernard Shaw: “a Tolstoy with jokes”
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Set Yourself Free: Twelve Books to Read on Human Nature
Living at the Edge of the World: Homeless
Book Tour: Season 1, episode 1
Book Review: A Mirror of America
Drinking Writer Man and Mt. Washington