"Growing up in a house where books were considered suspect"
That must have been ghastly for you. I'm glad you're able to balance that out now!
I've always thanked the fates that my own childhood was exactly the opposite -- probably because my mother grew up in a house where there was some tension over books: my grandfather was a bibliophile and my grandmother considered them "suspect", as you so rightly term it. Whatever, even though the family never had any money when I was a kid -- especially after my father died -- there were always plenty of books in the house, both bought and library-borrowed.
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Date: 2008-03-20 02:00 pm (UTC)"Growing up in a house where books were considered suspect"
That must have been ghastly for you. I'm glad you're able to balance that out now!
I've always thanked the fates that my own childhood was exactly the opposite -- probably because my mother grew up in a house where there was some tension over books: my grandfather was a bibliophile and my grandmother considered them "suspect", as you so rightly term it. Whatever, even though the family never had any money when I was a kid -- especially after my father died -- there were always plenty of books in the house, both bought and library-borrowed.