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Aug 20

Not myself today…

I have never claimed to have a good memory, but now it seems even things I thought I knew are incorrect. For the past few years I have been happily telling interviewers that my favourite book while growing up was Alan Garner’s The Owl Service. Having now purchased and re-read it for the sake of nostalgia, I find that it wasn’t the book I was remembered at all! Now I have no idea what the book that I pointed my torch at under the covers actually was. I can’t tell you how disappointed I am. I feel a little less like myself.

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Written on August 20, 2011 at 10:51 am, by
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2 comments

  1. I don’t remember The Owl Service that well either, but I really like Elidor. I must read that again some time…

    Comment by Captain Black on August 23, 2011 at 8:13 am

  2. Ah, for me it was Swallows & Amazons. Still brings a nostalgic smile to my face. Also the excellent Stories from Uncle Remus, which was the Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox collection which is probably not available anymore due to political correctness. Along these lines did you know they renamed the children from Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree series. Dick becomes Rick, Fanny becomes Frannie & Bessie become Beth. Honestly, children don’t care about these things…

    Comment by Amanda O on August 24, 2011 at 9:20 am