Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
It’s time for a nostalgia trip! When I first saw this as a TTT topic, I wondered if I ever put up much about myself all together in one post like this. Sure, these things are scattered across this blog spanning years apart sometimes, but it’s exciting to share things that mean a lot to me in some kind of cohesive, structured manner.
Maybe some of these memories may date me. But below I have decided to share some of the interesting events I had the privilege to attend, and the books that shaped my childhood into the reader that I am today.
Will you walk down memory lane with me?
Childhood reading
I need to start off here, because it’s very important to get an understanding of the kind of child I was. Where you normally see kids running around playing all the time with absolutely anything under the sun, I was the weird one who was more concerned if I left the house without a book carried under my arm. I wonder if any of you relate to this?
Redwall books
Growing up, it was a mix between scheduled TV programming time (only the educational channels because my parents wanted me to watch less cartoons), but sometimes these educational channels also had very interesting animated shows.
Such as the lovely Redwall series. My brother and I were enamored with these anthropomorphic animals who were living out some crazy fantasy epics full of battles, betrayals and wild adventures around the far reaches of their known kingdoms. Even though the show (I want to say was PBS?) only featured the storylines from pretty much only 1 book out of the many in Brian Jacques’ amazing series, I fell in love with adventures and fantasies like these.
Down the Rabbit Hole 