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Top Ten Bookish Memories
Share stories of your reading life as a child, events you’ve gone to, books that made an impression on you, noteworthy experiences with books, authors you’ve met, etc. Reminisce with me!
- My dad reading Brer Rabbit books to me
- Memorising my first picture book
- Reading my first chapter book: Black Beauty, and feeling like it took a really long time, however when I finished it I flipped right back to the first page to start again and seemed to read it really quickly a second time.
- Doing an English degree and getting totally burned out, not reading for about a year, then picking up Twilight and reading the whole series in a week.
- Reading Jane Eyre as an English post grad chapter by chapter.
- Leaving my first review – it was quite negative, so I did it anonymously on Amazon. The book was TERRIBLE. It was my first experience of reading an objectively terrible book (it was someone else’s idea and a very small, niche publisher, and likely vanity, now that I think back on it).
- Reading Divergent in a day while also going to a party and reading it there.
- Meeting John Marsden at a signing the year I was doing a Tomorrow When the War Began read-through, and he told me he liked my non-de-plume 🙂
- I travelled interstate with my husband to go to one of Jay Kristoff’s book launches. It literally cost like $1000 for two people including flights, hotels, and sundries. But I can speak with authority on the fact that Jay Kristoff gives incredible hugs!
- Getting my book cases in my own personal library, along with my super comfy reading chair that also fits three cats as well as myself 😀
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About Nemo
A lover of kittens and all things sparkly, Nemo has a degree in English Literature and specialises in reviewing contemporary, paranormal, mystery/thriller, historical, sci-fi and fantasy Young Adult fiction. She is especially drawn to novels about princesses, strong female friendships, magical powers, and assassins.
