Book challenge: Childhood favorite
BOOK CHALLENGE EST FINI!!!!
I have to confess I had a really hard time choosing a book
to read for childhood favorite. I originally
thought I would read Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott as this was my all-time
favorite book as a child. But, then I
got to thinking. What if I read it now
and I no longer like it? It will thus be
ruined. Then, I was thinking what about
my other childhood faves like The Secret Garden? Do I really want to read them again? I was in fear that I would ruin my good
memories of these books so I picked out Charlotte’s Web because it was parading
itself in front of me on my bookshelf (thanks Dad for sending me all of my
childhood books) and I felt it could take one for the team if it had to.
Charlotte’s Web, for those who have never heard of it, is
about a spring pig named Wilbur who is set for the slaughterhouse come
fall. Wilbur becomes frightened and
doesn’t want to die so his new friend, a spider named Charlotte decides to help
him out by writing words in her web so that people will think that Wilbur is special
and not just a future piece of bacon.
As an adult, reading this book, I found it be darker than I remembered
with all the talk of death and killing Wilbur. Also, it occurred to me that everyone goes gah
gah over the pig because of the words in Charlotte’s web but really they should
be going wild over the spider. And as I
was thinking this, Mrs. Zuckerman says as much in the book! I will also confess that Charlotte may have
gotten on my nerves a bit with her high and mighty knowledge but, I did find
myself thinking maybe rats and spiders and pigs are not so bad. LOL.
One last final note, I got a chuckle out of the fact that I
wrote in the front of the book my name and “CHISTMAS '86”. I missed the R. I was always into doing stuff like that
(inscribing books not misspelling holidays) as a kid. Current me doesn’t have that sentimentality
anymore. Sad face.
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