books – Page 3 – three good words

June 4, 2025June 4, 2025

The Golden Ticket

Do you remember your favorite book from childhood?

Again, too many to count, but let’s go with Charlie and The Misanthrope’s Chocolate Factory.

From Prince Pondicherry to 4 Grandparents in 1 bed, Little Me had a tremendous amount of questions while reading. Also, those chocolates, candies, and sweets sounded amazing. Finally, no way the Oompa Loompas never figured out another diet on their own (always bothered me).

Then there were The Chocolate Trials:
At first it was enormously satisfying to watch spoilt brats and bullies have the day they deserved. The Oompa Loompas DGAF and Willy Wonka was a revelation: An adult who stood firm in the face of irate parents? Amazing.

After multiple re-reads, though, the terrible children’s “just deserts” stopped being so perfectly just, given how their parents were horrible already and really weren’t being, y’know, parents. Especially in comparison to Charlie’s family, who clearly cared for Little Bucket.

Eye-opening for a kid.

June 3, 2025June 3, 2025

laughs in library

List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?

Honestly, 3 isn’t even remotely enough.
Each book has had its own impact, some larger, some smaller, all of them important in their own way.

#iykyk #reading

May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

Ye Olden Dayes

Do you remember life before the internet?

Reading without distractions.

Owning things: books, music, movies.

That particular silence outdoors.

Clothes that lasted.

Postcards.

May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

cold snap

How do you feel about cold weather?

Autumn is hands down the best season.

Bright warm days followed by rain and then suddenly: snow! Then bright warm days again.

Meanwhile, the leaves are turning into every kind of gold and red.

Perfection.

#sweaterweather

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

Tough one

If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

*sighs with regret*

Terrible question. Too many to count.

*thinks about it*

Actually, the fun part would be existing in the fictional world with equal ability and a great story.

Say, if you fell into Narnia or Middle Earth, Deep Space 9 or The Expanse, Jade City or The Interdependency, or any other fictional universe: You get to experience the world in full book form and live to tell the tale…

Imagine the stories.

#dreams