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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 6, 2015 20:23:40 GMT
always happy to oblige, lbp!!
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Montannie
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Post by Montannie on Aug 6, 2015 20:30:14 GMT
One childhood summer was spent reading a dictionary-sized version of an etiquette book. Fascinating stuff! I also love the place setting diagrams, and the forms of address for personages such as the Queen, President, Pope, etc.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 6, 2015 20:31:26 GMT
I used to read the dictionary and the encyclopedia, too... can't do that so much nowadays, with dictionary.com... lol!
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Post by miominmio on Aug 6, 2015 20:49:16 GMT
I love history, mostly medieval and specifically the 800 to 1200 period. No one in my family (including some other avid readers AND teachers) get my fascination with history. And old childrens books...I love those as well.
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kate
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Post by kate on Aug 6, 2015 22:26:10 GMT
I got one of those giant Emily Post books before my wedding. There have been times I've been glad to have it (for example, when I was going to be doing a mass with the Cardinal, I went to EP to find out how to address him).
I would love to read the book about country house etiquette. My kids now have a bunch of friends with country/beach homes, and I worry that there are "rules" that I should know but don't. I didn't grow up around people who had multiple homes.
To answer the OP, I love nonfiction spy books, cozy mysteries, and Regency romances (I only wish more of those were well-written!), but my very favorite kind of book is what I call "slice of life" - think A year in Provence or Around the World in Six Years. I don't know if that's weird or not.
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oldcrow
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Post by oldcrow on Aug 6, 2015 22:59:20 GMT
I love history, mostly medieval and specifically the 800 to 1200 period. No one in my family (including some other avid readers AND teachers) get my fascination with history. And old childrens books...I love those as well. I love reading history too although I prefer prior to 800. There is lots during the medieval period that I enjoy also especially anything to do with the Templars.
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Post by cannmom on Aug 7, 2015 0:23:55 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... I will have to check out that site. I loved Trixie Belden when I was a girl. I didn't know they had updated them. I love older children's books.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 7, 2015 1:04:51 GMT
Does the back of cereal boxes count? That's the only weird thing I can think of too Other than that it's just normal books, magazines, pamphlets, anything printed
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schizo319
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Post by schizo319 on Aug 7, 2015 2:13:17 GMT
I like old gardening & landscaping books from the 70s.
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