Harlequin sent me these amazing beach bags as part of their Big Summer Romance promo. Each beach bag includes 2 of Harlequin’s Summer Romance recommendations, a beach mat, a hat and sunglasses. We’ll be giving these away throughout the month.
As awesome as this bag is, I was thinking it could probably be just a tad bit more awesome if maybe I added a little more swag to it. What’s better than getting a beach bag filled with beach accessories and a couple books? A beach bag filled with beach accessories, book swag and many books. Right?
So here’s what we’ve got for you today:
- Beach Bag
- Beach Mat, Hat and Sunglasses
- Orchard Valley Brides by Debbie Macomber
- Skin Tight by Ava Gray
– Autographed
- Man of the West by Sadie Callahan
- Desire Me by Robyn DeHart
- Claimed by Vicki Lewis Thompson
- Various bookmarks, first chapter booklets, postcards and other swag
For our first day kick-off, we have some school questions for you. Leave your answer in comments by Monday, September 6th @ 11:59 PDT. Winners will be announced each week on Sunday.
What was your most memorable book in high school?
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Did your love of reading begin in school?
Wow, great contest ladies !!
What was your most memorable book in high school?
The Picture of Dorian Grey… pretty much devoured it.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Martine.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Le Grand Meaulnes… what a story, a must-read.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
Yes but way too late. I was in college, first year of american litterature. I read Scott Fitzgerals and Wow… who knew reading could be so great ?
What was your most memorable book in high school?
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Didn’t really have one, I read everything!
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
The Giving Tree
Did your love of reading begin in school?
I believe so! Loved the places books took me!
What was your most memorable book in high school?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Laura from Little House on the Prairie series and Anne from Anne of Green Gables.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
The Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables series.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
It started in school but once I got out of school for some reason it just grew. I love reading!
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Favorite childhood books – anything by Beverly Cleary.
In H.S. hmm, have to think on that. Probably biographies on baseball players – I love baseball.
-What was your most memorable book in high school?
a German classic “Im Westen nicht Neues” (All Quiet on the Western Front) by Erich Maria Remarque
-Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
all the characters from German author Erich Kästner
-What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
a book collection with dozens of fairytales
-Did your love of reading begin in school?
Yes, I think so. Since then I’ve devoured everything with letters in it. 🙂
oh wow, you are gorgeous!!! thanks 🙂
1) Duplicate Jonas 7 – it was kind of scary…
2) oh that’s difficult to say cause we read a lot…
3) I’ve no children 😉
4) no, I loved reading (or leafing through a picture book *g*) before school…
greetings, Ina
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Great giveaway.
What was your most memorable book in high school?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Does Winnie the pooh count 🙂
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
I don’t have kids to pass down to.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
No,I hated to read in school.
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What was your most memorable book in high school?
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger.
Who was your favourite character from your childhood books?
Mildred Hubble from The Worst Witch.
What is a book you have passed down to your children.?
Puff the Magic Dragon. (the oldest one is only two!)
Did your love of reading begin in school?
No. It started before that as i come from a family of avid readers.
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What was your most memorable book in high school?
We don’t have high school here but it is probably equivalent to our sixth form. The most memorable book was by Guy De Maupassant – french literature
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Jo from Little Women
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Definitely Little Women and its sequals – Good Wives, Little Men and Jo’s Boys. Passed them on to my nieces too.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
I have always loved reading. My mum never had to force me to read anything. My eldest brother loves reading too so i had all his books to indulge in.
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Favorite character from h.s. Nancy Drew or was that considered preteen – so long ago.
Love all those mystery books that young teens adored.
Helen L.
Lets See How I can do with this…
What was your most memorable book in high school?
I technically got my hands on it in jr. high but it stayed with me, between the mattress & box spring of my bed, through high school ~ Forever by Judy Blume
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Laura Ingalls Wilder
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
So many….Dr. Suess, Danny & the Dinosaur, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little House..all the Judy Blumes except Forever 😉
Did your love of reading begin in school? I’m sure that’s where I learned to read so I suppose that my kindergarten teacher can take a certain level of responsibility for my obsession.
Wonderful contest ladies!
What was your most memorable book in high school?
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Hanni and Nanni, and I just full of shock discovered that they were called Pat and Isabel in the Original. From the St. Clare Series by Enid Blyton. I lived a lie all my childhood. LOL
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
I don’t have any children yet but that would be Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
Yes, actually before. I always pretended that I could actually read. That drove my big sis crazy LOL.
What was your most memorable book in high school?
There were so many, but three favorites were:
The Scarlet Pimpernel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Three Musketeers
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Rumpelstilskin
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
N/A
Did your love of reading begin in school?
No, over summer vacations
1. What was your most memorable book in high school? Night by Elie Wiesel – such an impactful book about one boy’s experience during the Holocaust.
2. Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? I loved The Berenstein Bears books when I was little! Nancy Drew was a favorite of mine also.
3. What is a book that you have passed down to your children? I don’t have any children (yet), but I love Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? (or any Eric Carle Book).
4. Did your love of reading begin in school? Before school actually. My Mom read to me from birth and I loved books even before I started Kindergarten. I’ve had a library card since age 5!
Ok this made me think 🙂
1) the book that I remember the most from high school isn’t a book that you would think. It is Brave the Wild Wind by Johanna Lindsey
2) VIolet from the BoxCar Children
3) The Boxcar Children
4) Mine began at home my mom and both of grandma’s are big readers.
It was actually Jr. High School, does that count? The Pearl by John Steinbeck has stuck with me all these years.
Harry from The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
I can’t get my son to read ANYTHING! Except Harry Potter, and I started reading those as an adult.
No, my Aunt read to me almost everyday as long as I can remember, so I loved books before I started school. I couldn’t wait to learn to read so I could read myself while she worked!
What was your most memorable book in high school?
Animal Farm
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Encyclopedia Brown
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
I have no children, but would probably pass down Encyclopedia Brown, Babysitter’s Club, Boxcar Children books.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
It definitely did. I loved going to the school library to check out books.
Wow, great contest! Thanks!
What was your most memorable book in high school?
Probably Lord of the Rings.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Definitely the Bobbsey Twins!
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Little House on the Prairie
Did your love of reading begin in school? It began in my grandmother’s basement where she had shelves upon shelves of books!
Wooooot that’s a great contest to help us bear the going back to school! 😉
What was your most memorable book in high school?
I think it was Si c’est un Homme (If This Is a Man) by Primo Levi
It’s heart-wrenching because it’s the true story of a Jew who survived the extermination camp.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Caroline from the Caroline series by Pierre Probst. My mom bought me the books because I’m named Caroline too.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? Well I do not have children yet. But I will give them my first French/English book imagery. I got it when I was 3 and I learned my first English words with it. =)
Did your love of reading begin in school? I read when I was very young but from 12 to 18 I hated reading. I made up with reading when I first discovered The Lord of The Rings! 😉
What was your most memorable book in high school? Great Expectations. It wasn’t my favorite book to read, but I still remember reading it for the first time in high school. (And then, for the second and third times, as my kids read it in high school, too.)
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? Jo March from Little Women
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? The Dr. Seuss books…in fact, they read from the same copies I did! I now read these stories to my grandkids.
Did your love of reading begin in school? No–earlier, actually. When I was a toddler, my parents read to me frequently and that instilled in me a lifelong love of reading.
Thanks for a great giveaway.
Ohh, great way to kick off the giveaways!
Most memorable book in High School: Death Be Not Proud (John Gunther)
Favourite Character from Childhood Books: Fern from Charlotte’s Web, Nancy Drew, and Kathy Martin (from a series by Josephine James)
What book have you passed down to your children? So many! Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Charlotte’s Web, The Velveteen Rabbit…
Did your love of reading begin in school? No, not really. I started reading at four. I learnt that with a book in hand and staying quiet, I could usually stay up past my bedtime and get the good gossip from the adults around me who weren’t aware I was there. LOL
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What was your most memorable book in high school? I think it was Death of a Salesman. It was just very sad.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? Anne of Green Gables was a favorite of mine.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? Little Women, well to my daughter anyway.
Did your love of reading begin in school? My mother was a big reader, she always had a book around so she was reading to us before we ever went to school.
I read so many books in Highschool It would be hard to pick but remember one of my teachers making us all read the Princess Bride as one of the “must” be read books for her English class. That was a very cool book and very memorible.
One of my favorite characters from a childrens book is Ann Shirley from Ann of Green Gables. I loved that book and still read it every so often.
I have many books that I would like to pass down to my kids when they are older. Anne of Green Gables, The Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden, All Creatures Great and Small. Oh my list could go on and on. My little girls are a little young but I did give my four year old, the oldest a copy of my beautifully illustrated pop-up book of Puss and Boots. I won it in a reading contest when I was a kid. She loves it now!
My love of reading started when I was about in the first grade when I learned to read my self. Then when I got a library card there was no holding me back. I’m 35 now and a book addict and have intention of stopping anytime soon!
forget to leave my e-mail with my comment up above.
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What was your most memorable book in high school?
-1984
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
-Nancy Drew
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
-No kids.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
-Yup, anywhere I went I had a book with me as soon as I could read and check them out.
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Memorable book in high school was Catcher In the Rye.
Favorite childhood character —none, I enjoyed them all.
Book I passed down to my children–Bambi.
My love of reading began before I started school. My birthday was after the deadline for starting school(no kindergarten back then), so my Dad taught me to read.
What was your most memorable book in high school?
-One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
-Ramona (of the Beverly Cleary books)
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
-A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Did your love of reading begin in school?
-Probably, can’t recall. Just remember loving the library lots.
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Open to all?
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Uh, that we had to read? Cos we didn’t have do read anything, if we had to we just picked one we wanted
I can’t really say, surely something by Astrid Lindgren
No children, but I would give her or him Mauri Kunnas books because they are the cutest picture books ever
Befoe school 🙂
What a great givaway! And there are two books (Skin Tight and Desire Me) that I am REALLY looking forward to reading! Here are my answers:
What was your most memorable book in high school?– Pride and Prejudice.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?– Gretel from Hansel and Gretel.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?– I don’t have kids yet.
Did your love of reading begin in school?– Before. I always loved to be read to 🙂
Yes, reading started in school with The Little House on the Prairie – Loved Laura.
I never had any kids, but told my neices about the Nancy Drew and Bobsey Twin books.
Most memorable H.S. books were by Harold Robbins. – Maybe a little of my time.
Rosie G.
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My most memorable book from high school is “Marry in Haste” by Jane Aiken Hodge, and I still love this book!
“Doctor Dolittle” was my favorite childhood book and character. If I had children, I would have read this book to them. We would have watched the original moive starring Rex Harrison as the good doctor.
I loved to read way before I started school. I come from a family of readers.
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May I say that these questions are tougher than they seem? It’s been a helluva long time since I was in school, people!!!
*ahem*
What was your most memorable book in high school?
Not my favorite by any means, but one of the most memorable is Aztec, by Gary Jennings (historical setting, but I’m not going to go into the ‘accuracy’ part of it–blech)
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Henri de Lagardère, from Paul Féval Pére’s novel Le Bossu. Mind you, this is a romance/adventure novel set in the late 1600s to very early 1700s, with swashbuckling and heroic self-sacrifice in abundance, but when I was very very young (as in before-kindergarten-age-young) my mother would tell us the novel (by heart!) while driving across Mexico City from home to the various schools–and then some more on the way back.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Well, following tradition (if it works, why fix it, right?) I read aloud to my kids from some of my favorites–Black Beauty, Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Little Princess, Mysterious Island… Gah, too many to list! (And I’m very blessed, for both my children are avid readers)
Did your love of reading begin in school?
😀 Actually, well before school–see the answer to the second question.
Thank you, ladies!
Thanks for the opportunity!
1. Katherine by Anya Seton was my most memorable book from HS.
2. Laura from Little House on the Prairie was my favorite character as a kid.
3. I gave Katherine to my oldest last year & she liked it; my younger kids aren’t ready for it, but all 3 read the Harry Potter series after I read it.
4. No, it began at home – I’ve always loved to read.
I didnt answer all your questions, so here goes again: LOL.
Most Mem. Book in H.S. Biography of Mickey Mantle
Fav. Character from childhood – Nancy Drew
Book Passed down: Beezus and Ramona
Yes, love of reading started in school. I loved going to the library and grabbing books by my fav author, just like now.
Coolness! Lovely giveaway, thanks for putting it together Harlequin and Book Binge!
(that bag could really come in handy. Just started college and text books are literally making my current bag cut into my skin. -and the novels inside the beaxch bag + the swag would be great incentive to enter too, lol!
What was your most memorable book in high school? I guess, Snitch by Allison Di Vipen (something like that). It’s the one that started it all for me. And also ‘A Rogue Of My OWn’ by Johanna Lindsey because it was the first book to set me down my historical romance loving path!
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
I love Ariel from the Little Mermaid (although flounder stole my heart too).
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
No children yet. But I would probably pass down ‘Crossing Oceans’ by Gina Holmes. It was a book about the deepest sort of love, and when my kids make it to their teenage years and start telling me how I ruin their lives, I’ll make them read this book and see how us mothers will do anything and everything for our children.
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Tough questions! HS seems like forever ago…
What was your most memorable book in high school?
Native Son. Not my favorite book, but one that has stayed with me. Powerful and disturbing.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Nancy Drew. I read the entire series one summer in elementary school.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
The Bunnicula series by James Howe. We listened to audio versions of the first 3 on our summer trip this year.
Those and my Serendipity books collection. I love those books.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
It started before school. I learned to read sitting in my dad’s lap flipping through National Geographic and listening to him read to me.
Fabulous Giveaway!
1. Marjorie Morningstar was my favorite in high schoo.
2. Laura in Little House on the Prairie series.
3. Winnie the Pooh.
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Great kick off prize.
Most memorable book in H. S. – Gone with the Wind
Favorite Character – Nancy Drew
Yes, reading started for me in school avidly
Favorite books to pass on – daughter isnt even 2 yet – Good Nite Moon and Runaway Bunny
Natalie’s Mama
Wow, this is an amazing contest. Thanks so much for all the loot 🙂
*My favortie book I read in highschool was flowers in the attic, and The Thorn Birds
*My favorite characters were Frog and Toad, they taught me how to read 🙂
*My kids have a lot of the books I had when I was little. Lots of little golden books, Winnie the pooh to name a few 🙂 My favorite ones that I’ve passed down are, I love you forever, the BFG, Frog and Toad and summer of the monkey’s
*I’ve always been an avid reader. I had an obsession with books before I could read. It started with the little golden books 🙂 I get that from my dad. We use to spend summer’s with him, we’re not that close and sometimes it would be a little awkward. Him and my step mom always had a book in their hands and didn’t watch t.v. so my sis and I would always grab a book also. When they would have to work they would sometimes just drop us off at the library where we would spend most of the day
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1. Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming is the book I most remember from high school.
2. I can’t remember any one character in particular, I read a lot of books as a child.
3. A Wrinkle in Time – I loved it so much I made sure I gave it to my son to read.
4. Yes, my love of reading began in school. My third grade teacher was amazed at all the books I read and always remarked on it when I saw her in later years.
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What was your most memorable book in high school?
The Warlock In Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Nancy Drew
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Black Beauty
Did your love of reading begin in school?
My parents always read out loud to us, so I was reading long before staring kindergarten.
caity_mack at yahoo dot com
Great contest with lots of wonderful goodies!
Here are my answers….
-My favorite book (and there were many I enjoyed) was Pride & Prejudice. Great writing with a strong female character.
-Aslan from The Chronicles of Narnia. So strong and full of wisdom.
-I don’t have children, but I always recommend Dr. Seuss books or Goodnight Moon.
-I read like crazy before I ever went to school. My grandma was a teacher so she started us reading right when we started talking.
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What was your most memorable book in high school?
Harry Potter
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
The cat in the hat
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
No children 🙁
Did your love of reading begin in school?
Before school ever started – Dad used to read to me every night before bed
Wow, what a way to take a trip down memory lane!
1.) Book in high school – Catcher of the Rye
2.) Childhood book – Nancy Drew
3.) All of Dr. Seuss and Danny & The Dinosaur
Thanks so much or that trip!
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What a giveaway!
What was your most memorable book in high school?
As corny as it may seem, “Catcher in the Rye”
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
The Black Stallion from the Walter Farley books (note I didn’t say Alex, the human, but the horse).
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Don’t have any kids but I have nieces and nephews – Encyclopedia Brown, although I’m not sure they’re reading it.
Did your love of reading begin in school?
Nope. My mother used to leave me at the library when she went shopping. I’d sit there quietly with picture books by the reference librarians. They told my mother I was their youngest patron. I was three years old at most at the time.
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Great questions!
-What was your most memorable book in high school? It would have to be either Pride and Prejudice or 1984. Both resonate with me still.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? I didn’t really read a lot when I was a child but I loved to look at my brother comic books–big X-Men fan. I only really like to read starting in high school with P&P.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? Sorry, no kids but in the future I can see Harry Potter playing a big role.
Did your love of reading begin in school? I read P&P in school but I can remember sneaking my mothers old Harlequin books and reading them.
1] What was your most memorable book in high school?
The one that comes to mind is The Enchanted Forest by Enid Blyton. I guess I always had a liking for the paranormal 🙂
2] Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
– Nancy Drew
3] What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Don’t have children. But when I do have them, I plan on passing on Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Famous Five , a few Enid Blytons, Harry Potter and the Mallory Towers series (a series about girls in a boarding school)
4] Did your love of reading begin in school?
– Yup. In my school, we had a class called reading or library time or something like that. We only checked out one book at that time. We are given 2 weeks to read the book, then we had to exchange it for something else at the next class. At the beginning of the class our teacher would take us to the library, place 60 books near the front row (that’s how many students we had in class) and we had to take one book and pass the rest. There was quite a bit of competition on getting the front row seats so you could pick the “best” book 🙂
Favourite book in high school – The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy (the whole 6 of the trilogy actually).
Favourite character from your childhood books – Winnie the Pooh
A book I’ve passed down to my son – The Velveteen Rabbit
Great giveaway – thanks ladies (& Harlequin)!
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The most memorable book from high school was “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
My favorite character from childhood is Ponyboy from “The Outsiders.”
I don’t have children, but I would probably pass down Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.”
I do believe my love of reading began in school, but I can’t say for sure exactly when.
Thanks for the giveaway.
What a great giveway! All the books are on my wishlist and etc are fab :).
What was your most memorable book in high school?
the sweet valley series
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Nancy drew
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
where the wild things are
Did your love of reading begin in school?
no it started way before I began school, i used to sit with books at the age of 2 or so and try to read them my parents say
Pam S
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What was your most memorable book in high school?
Does it have to be required reading? Because, well, meh. I never did get catcher in the Rye, you know? But Dune (only the first one) and Georgette Heyer (about 10 of them).
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? Jo March, Jane Eyre, the boy who owns the Black Stallion (not because he’s that well-drawn, but because i so wanted a horse)
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Not many of them, really. We keep reading newer books together. And they’re boys and still young.
Did your love of reading begin in school? More like that’s what I did with most of my time outside of school!
Such a wonderful prize 😀 Thanks for thinking of us
What was your most memorable book in high school? Shanna by Kathleen Woodiwiss (1st full lenght historical romance novel I read which quickly hooked me)
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? Nancy Drew (still enjoy a good mystery)
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? n/a
Did your love of reading begin in school? nope, from my mom who always enjoyed reading
What was your most memorable book in high school? that would be the books by Tolstoi…
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? ah, I can’t choose one, there are to many…
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? Little House on the Prairie – I loved reading it and I watched the series with my kiddies…
Did your love of reading begin in school? yes, definitively…
Chris S.
My most memorable book in high school was Pride and Prejudice.
My favorite character from a childhood book was Tarzan.
No children, but I passed down The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my nieces.
Yes, my love of reading began in school.
Most memorable book in HS – Gone with the Wind
Favorite character – Tom Swift
Childhood passed down book Winnie the Pooh
Love of reading from my parents and school.
What was your most memorable book in high school?
I guess that would have to be Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, that’s the first time I read it.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Hmm. I guess I’ll have to go with Meg, Charles and Calvin (no I can’t choose just one) from A Wrinkle in Time.
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
Don’t have children, but if I did I’d just be happy to pass down my love of reading
Did your love of reading begin in school?
No, it began long before that. But the library sure nurtured it.
Cool contest!!
Great prize list, and it’s my birthday on the 6th, maybe I’ll get a nice suprise present, lol.
Most memorable book in high school was Catcher in the Rye.
Favorite childhood character was Bambi very young, and then Sleeping Beauty.
No kids myself, but all the kids in my family get books from us all when they are babies and on up.
I was reading before starting school, and still going strong today reading every chance I get.
What was your most memorable book in high school?
I liked the Little House on the Prairie series
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Definitely Nancy Drew
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
When they were little it was the Pokey Little Puppy
Did your love of reading begin in school?
It began with my mom reading to me every night
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Wow ladies, you guys are so generous!!
Let’s see, when I was in high school I loved Christopher Pike. Anyone of his books could be listed as a favorite of mine.
There was this book called Andrew Henry’s Meadow that my father read to me as a little girl. It was published in the 1950s so needless to say that book is no longer being published. However I was able to purchase a used copy off of Amazon.com a few years back. I read that book to my daughter and plan to read it to my son.
I think my love of reading began as a child when my father would read to me at bedtime. Those are some of my most cherished memories with my Dad.
What was your most memorable book in high school? The Trial – Kafka
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? Ponyboy – The Outsiders
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? Green Eggs and Ham – Seuss
Did your love of reading begin in school? Yes
What was your most memorable book in high school?
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books?
Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird
What is a book that you have passed down to your children?
The Velveteen Rabbit
Did your love of reading begin in school?
What was your most memorable book in high school? The Scarlet Letter
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? Ann of Green Gables
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? Grimm’s Fairy tales
Did your love of reading begin in school? Yes.
What was your most memorable book in high school? JANE EYRE, always, always.
Who was your favorite character from your childhood books? HARRY POTTER counts, yes?
What is a book that you have passed down to your children? No kids yet, but there is no way I’ll fail to read them the Harry Potter series.
Did your love of reading begin in school? Nope — I grew up in a house of books. Way before I entered school, I was stuck in one.
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