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Post by cannmom on Aug 5, 2015 23:57:37 GMT
Do you enjoy reading anything unusual? I like to read old etiquette books. I find them fascinating. Right now I have been reading Emily Post from 1936. Just finished the section on country homes. All about how to be a good guest and a good host at your country home. Love reading about such a different way of life. So, what weird stuff do you read?
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Post by lisacharlotte on Aug 6, 2015 0:21:37 GMT
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Post by Zee on Aug 6, 2015 0:28:03 GMT
Old medical books are my favorite, especially if it includes women's health
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Post by peano on Aug 6, 2015 0:28:41 GMT
I love old etiquette books too.
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Post by cannmom on Aug 6, 2015 0:30:40 GMT
That looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by meridon on Aug 6, 2015 0:31:29 GMT
I read old children's books like the Miss Minerva series and the Five Little Peppers, etc. I also like old social studies/history textbooks.
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Aug 6, 2015 1:15:57 GMT
As a child, we had an old etiquette book, and I read it for hours. I was especially fascinated by the little diagrams of place settings and the lineups for various styles of weddings.
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Post by scrapmaven on Aug 6, 2015 2:31:05 GMT
My mother made us read the Emily Post Book of Etiquette from cover to cover. Then she sent us to charm school. Do I win that one? I am trying to think of one thing I read that is weird, but it would be better to think of one thing that I read that is normal. I'm out!
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Post by ntsf on Aug 6, 2015 2:33:41 GMT
I read two big books on the naval history before and during world war 1...castles of steel..and the sequel..
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Post by leeny on Aug 6, 2015 2:53:28 GMT
I've read biographies from Ozzy Osborne to Diane Keaton. There is some mighty interesting things about these people.
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Post by Merge on Aug 6, 2015 2:58:13 GMT
As a kid I read the encyclopedia. We had a set of the World Book from the 60s and I loved it.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 6, 2015 3:17:48 GMT
I read old children's books like the Miss Minerva series and the Five Little Peppers, etc. I also like old social studies/history textbooks. I have read thousands of children's books as an adult. Love them. I have first editions of Treasure Island, Five Little Peppers, and Louisa May Alcott's books. I love to smell them. In a noncreepy way.
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Post by desertgirl on Aug 6, 2015 3:17:56 GMT
I buy every little small town newspaper when we travel, which is quite often. Read them every word. Love them!
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Post by leannec on Aug 6, 2015 3:31:00 GMT
I read cookbooks cover to cover but rarely ever actually cook from them
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Aug 6, 2015 6:53:49 GMT
I don't buy them, but when I run across old magazibes and catalogs, I enjoy reading them (60's-80's in particular). Some hilarious stuff in there.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Aug 6, 2015 11:59:49 GMT
I used to read encyclopedias.
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Post by mama2three on Aug 6, 2015 13:49:04 GMT
Old science text books. Like 100-200 yrs old. I have several. It's very interesting to read what was the thinking and "state of the science" at that time vs what we now know. " the plume coming out of the volcano is relieving the ill humors of the earth". Also love old maps of all kinds
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Post by mama2three on Aug 6, 2015 13:51:28 GMT
I read old children's books like the Miss Minerva series and the Five Little Peppers, etc. I also like old social studies/history textbooks. I have The Five Little Peppers! I keep it for nostalgia. It was my grandmother's favorite book and she read it to us often. My daughter got hooked on the Dana Girls series from the 1930s. Didn't like Nancy Drew, but these are similar- just much harder to find
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Post by anxiousmom on Aug 6, 2015 14:05:10 GMT
Sometimes I feel like I read weird things.
I am surrounded by people who read romance, historical romance, girly beach books and other chic lit type stuff. It is just not me. I love a good post-apocalyptic or zombie book, books where the covert military units hunt down the bad guys and shoot lots of things, and other mayhem and rowdiness.
Reading a book with an adirondack chair on sand dune with sea oats waving in the breeze with a lovely sea in the back ground would be like punishment for me.
So maybe not weird for the general public, but weird in that it isn't normal for my circle and to my friends it seems very contradictory to my personality.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Aug 6, 2015 14:37:16 GMT
I have both of my grandmother's Emily Posts, and I love flipping through them. My grandmothers came from different walks of life - one lived on a farm and the other on the beach, so I find it interesting that having an etiquette book was just something you did. I find it sad that, even with all of the etiquette information imaginable at our disposal 24x7, etiquette is not important to us as a society.
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Post by me0605 on Aug 6, 2015 18:09:54 GMT
Cleaning out my grandmother's house a few years ago, I ran across a paperback book- a whole book, on uses for apple cider vinegar. I read most of it, just out of curiosity how they could fill a whole book. I like to read travel books
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Post by lbp on Aug 6, 2015 18:22:35 GMT
I read cookbooks like novels as well! Especially the ones from the 1940's and 1950's. I love the color pictures. I will read almost every recipe.
Every year at least once I read the Donna Parker books I got as a pre-teen. Hers and Trixie Belden were my favorite.
I also have a 1879 book by Julia McNair Wright called "The Complete Home" that I cherish and have read several times. It covers everything from dating, decorating, marriage, child rearing, how to train your maid (ha!) How times have changed!
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Post by oldcrow on Aug 6, 2015 18:55:35 GMT
Sometimes I feel like I read weird things. I am surrounded by people who read romance, historical romance, girly beach books and other chic lit type stuff. It is just not me. I love a good post-apocalyptic or zombie book, books where the covert military units hunt down the bad guys and shoot lots of things, and other mayhem and rowdiness. Reading a book with an adirondack chair on sand dune with sea oats waving in the breeze with a lovely sea in the back ground would be like punishment for me. So maybe not weird for the general public, but weird in that it isn't normal for my circle and to my friends it seems very contradictory to my personality. Don't you just hate when you have no one to trade with.
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Post by ~summer~ on Aug 6, 2015 19:07:11 GMT
Sometimes I spend a lot of time reading the missing stories on the charley project -- weird.
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Post by calgal08 on Aug 6, 2015 19:42:56 GMT
apart from chick lit, I love to read recipe books
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Aug 6, 2015 19:49:43 GMT
Does the back of cereal boxes count?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2015 19:51:33 GMT
My dad purchased a lot of those Time-Life Books series you'd see on TV - the Old West, WWII, Vietnam, the Civil War. I read them throughout my growing up years. I brought some of them home with me from our last visit and am starting the WWII ones again.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 6, 2015 19:54:12 GMT
my current reading material would probably be considered unusual... I've been reading e-books downloaded from Gutenberg.org, and they're children's novel series from the late 1800s, early 1900s-- The Bobbsey Twins, The Outdoor Girls, Grace Harlowe at School (there's probably 10 or more total in this series), Ruth Fielding (the series has 10 or more total books), books like that...
They're interesting to me because the stories are good, but they're also a really good way to read about different way of life without it seeming like 'history' if that makes sense. Reading about very early use of automobiles, train travel, what life was like in the Oklahoma oil fields in the early 1920s, etc.
eta: oh, Trixie Belden-- I still pine for these books; we had so many of them as a kid growing up (they really belonged to my older sisters), but I loved them, and we ended up getting rid of all of them! They've updated them to 'today's language' so I would only ever want the original ones if I was to get them again. I also love Donna Parker, and other 'malt shop' type novels from the 1950s-- Betty Cavanaugh, Beverly Cleary, Rosamund du Jardin, Anne Emery...
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Post by garcia5050 on Aug 6, 2015 19:56:48 GMT
I read a lot of fashion do's and don't books that are typically put out by celebrities. The weird thing is, I have zero sense of style. I don't care about fashion or what's 'in.'
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Post by lbp on Aug 6, 2015 20:18:05 GMT
my current reading material would probably be considered unusual... I've been reading e-books downloaded from Gutenberg.org, and they're children's novel series from the late 1800s, early 1900s-- The Bobbsey Twins, The Outdoor Girls, Grace Harlowe at School (there's probably 10 or more total in this series), Ruth Fielding (the series has 10 or more total books), books like that... They're interesting to me because the stories are good, but they're also a really good way to read about different way of life without it seeming like 'history' if that makes sense. Reading about very early use of automobiles, train travel, what life was like in the Oklahoma oil fields in the early 1920s, etc. eta: oh, Trixie Belden-- I still pine for these books; we had so many of them as a kid growing up (they really belonged to my older sisters), but I loved them, and we ended up getting rid of all of them! They've updated them to 'today's language' so I would only ever want the original ones if I was to get them again. I also love Donna Parker, and other 'malt shop' type novels from the 1950s-- Betty Cavanaugh, Beverly Cleary, Rosamund du Jardin, Anne Emery... We liked the same books! I just went to the Gutenburg.org and I am in LOVE! How did I no know about this site??? Thanks for another time suck!!!
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