On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Edward Picot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Very interesting about how an early formative experience of reading can > have such a profound effect on your intellectual direction, and in fact on > the whole direction of your life. It would make a good subject for an > online project: get people to send in their recollections of how they first > started to read. Experiences of libraries would be particularly > interesting, as we're now in an age where libraries are being closed down > or starved of funding in order to save money. > You should do it Edward! Sounds like a great proj [I'm way over-committed projectwise as it is, unfortunately]. > > The library in Hoddesdon, the nearest town to where I grew up, was a good > one, an old-fashioned building with the children's section upstairs, with > clonky wooden floors and nice wide white-painted window-sills where you > could sit comfortably to read. Sounds lovely. > Even more influential for me, however, was a bookshop called The Bookworm > in Hertford, where I bought my collections of C S Lewis, Alan Garner, Henry > Treece - anything with either magic or swordfights in it, preferably both - > and later on Penguin Classics and Modern Classics. C S Lewis! "The Last Battle"! > I think I was profoundly affected by the design of books. As a boy I was > always drawn to books with illustrations that I liked, and when I got older > it was the look of Penguin books that particularly attracted me to them. I > resisted things like Faber and Everyman for years because I didn't like the > way they were designed. > Interesting, and insightful. Chunks, Mez > > - Edward > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- | mezbreezedesign.com
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