A good friend of mine tweeted a list today and it inspired me to respond… only I couldn’t fit it into a tweet. This doesn’t have much to do with edtech, except to say how powerful 140 characters can be, especially when accompanied by an image.
Mapping my own reading journey as inspired by the brilliant @PhilipArdagh today! @CILIPSLG #slgconf16
— Rowena Seabrook (@RoSeabrook) April 23, 2016
So here is my reading journey, inspired by the wonderful Ro.
Enid Blyton – the famous five, the secret seven, malory towers and st clare’s – all while helping at local library on Saturday morning
A series of bible fables for children – a new one would arrive each birthday and christmas from my godmother, who took her role very seriously indeed and also happened to be a publisher. It didn’t work! But I have never forgotten the stories.
A big yellow book of fairy tales, a gift from the same source. These did work! Bluebeard was my favourite – no comment – but this is the one book I wish hadn’t been given away to Oxfam.
Jean Plaidy – embedded a love of imagining history.
Charlotte Bronte all – followed by Emily, some, – tried, but didn’t enjoy Anne much!
Agatha Christie – all.
At this point I don’t remember reading anything by any men. Other than Shakespeare, Hardy and Dickens of course. But those were required, rather than consumed under the sheets by torchlight.
The Hobbit but it made no real impression, and though I remember wanting to like the Lord of the Rings, it wasn’t meant to be.
All of Checkov. Then Dostoevsky. The link was tenuous.
And then there were the Women again, this time all black. Angela Davis. Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.
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