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10. A book that belongs to a specific time in your mind, caught in amber
I’m a re-reader, so if I like a book I will read it again, so it’s difficult to remember a particular book this way. But I do have reading experiences that feel like that.
Christmas, when I was 11, for example, when I was given Susan Cooper’s the Dark, Is Rising. I vividly remember spending Christmas Day (In Sweden the main day is Christmas Eve) on our old blue sofa, just beside the Christmas tree, reading, and eating candy. It really was the perfect book for Christmas as it takes place during that period, and Will was 11, just like me. It had the perfect balance of intrigue and scariness, but also coziness and family life. Just thinking of the book also almost makes me taste the old-fashioned sugar candies in a pretty box that I had also got that Christmas. I just adored the book, and I remember drawing lots of pictures, especially of the Signs.
I read all the books in the series, but though I quite liked Greenwitch, I never really warmed to the rest. I don't’ know why, really, because the only thing I know I actively disliked was the ending in Silver In the Tree. I really don’t like the trope of children having wonderful magical adventures, and then are made to forget all about them.
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I’m a re-reader, so if I like a book I will read it again, so it’s difficult to remember a particular book this way. But I do have reading experiences that feel like that.
Christmas, when I was 11, for example, when I was given Susan Cooper’s the Dark, Is Rising. I vividly remember spending Christmas Day (In Sweden the main day is Christmas Eve) on our old blue sofa, just beside the Christmas tree, reading, and eating candy. It really was the perfect book for Christmas as it takes place during that period, and Will was 11, just like me. It had the perfect balance of intrigue and scariness, but also coziness and family life. Just thinking of the book also almost makes me taste the old-fashioned sugar candies in a pretty box that I had also got that Christmas. I just adored the book, and I remember drawing lots of pictures, especially of the Signs.
I read all the books in the series, but though I quite liked Greenwitch, I never really warmed to the rest. I don't’ know why, really, because the only thing I know I actively disliked was the ending in Silver In the Tree. I really don’t like the trope of children having wonderful magical adventures, and then are made to forget all about them.
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