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Old 10-17-2015, 11:36 AM
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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

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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.
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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.
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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
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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
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein - Free Ebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracta...-Philosophicus

Maybe she could handle this?
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My grandson is getting hooked on Krishnamurti.
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read it already
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