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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverthwait, post: 444027, member: 103&quot;]The last time I moved, I had to divest myself of 6000+ books.&nbsp; It was, to put it mildly, TRAUMATIC!&nbsp; I have read almost all of the above-mentioned, plus all my Mother&#039;s books, plus some from my grandmother.&nbsp; (Oddly enough, was just talking about this with my brother the other night.&nbsp; We both remember The Swiss Family Robinson as having wonderful pictures, and tiny print.&nbsp; (TINY)&nbsp; Published in 187?.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I had every book by LMA, ditto Lucy Maud Montgomery, Tom Swift, Horatio Alger, Gene Stratton Porter, Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, Sue Barton, the Patty books, Honeybunch, Bunnie Brown and His Sister Sue, The Bobbsey Twins, the Blue Red Yellow Green Fairy books, the Outdoor Girls, Marjorie Dean books, everything by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz...&nbsp; There are more books in series, but i&#039;ll stop now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you, I kept all these, PLUS all the grown-up books I added.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like Komokwa, I gleaned some odd facts that have stayed with me through years of Jeopardy: the meaning of frogs in Japan, how to cure a bad case of croup (sans modern medicine), etc., etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll stop now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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