What do your grand kids read?

[Taltarzac725]

What kind of books, magazines, newspapers do your grand kids read? What did you read while growing up?

When I was volunteering at two Palm Harbor Libraries back in 2000-2003, I never made any bad comments about whatever some library user was checking out. If they wanted to check out a book on the particularities of farts, then Benjamin Franklin would have been made happy as he wrote an satirical article on a similar topic. Letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels, by Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 (http://mith.umd.edu/eada/html/display.php?docs=franklin_bagatelle2.xml)

[jblum315]

I read everything I could get my hands on. I read all the usual Nancy Drew stuff but also a lot of grownup books. I remember reading a biography of Frida Kahlo when I was 9, also a book called The Children's Garden, about French orphans and homeless children in Paris during the war. Also Forever Amber which was boring.

[tomwed]

The first time my son was taken to the school library he was allowed to pick any book he wanted. His teacher and librarian, like you, was very supportive.

And I still remember the title of his very first library book:
"How to be a Practical Nurse"

As for me I hung out in the library when the weather was cold after supper every night I could. I didn't read a single book, I tried to do my homework but mostly I was there to meet girls.

[golfing eagles]

My granddaughter is currently reading "String theory in the first few milliseconds after the big bang", "Advanced Calculus for post-graduate theoretical Mathematicians" and "Negation of dark energy as it applies to anti-gravity, warp propulsion and artificial wormholes" I'll get her something a bit more challenging for her 5th birthday:1rotfl:

[Taltarzac725]

My granddaughter is currently reading "String theory in the first few milliseconds after the big bang", "Advanced Calculus for post-graduate theoretical Mathematicians" and "Negation of dark energy as it applies to anti-gravity, warp propulsion and artificial wormholes" I'll get her something a bit more challenging for her 5th birthday:1rotfl:

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein - Free Ebook (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5740) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus

Maybe she could handle this?

[HimandMe]

My grandson is getting hooked on Krishnamurti.

[golfing eagles]

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein - Free Ebook (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5740) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus

Maybe she could handle this?

read it already:1rotfl: