What do your grand kids read?
 

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

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.

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.

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracta...-Philosophicus

Maybe she could handle this?

My grandson is getting hooked on Krishnamurti.

read it already:1rotfl: