Ha bloody ha

30 Day Reading Challenge
Day 18 - First "Chapter Book" you can remember reading as a child
Hmm. Encyclopedia Brown? Do those count? I truly have a bad memory about childhood. I was reading Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Trixie Belden books pretty early but the earliest? Pippi Longstocking? I remember mom taking us to the library or getting on the hot Bookmobile that smelled of diesel because they kept it running.

Whoa, I just looked up a book I remembered from grade school I loved, old one, called THE PINK DRESS. The only one I  could find on Amazon that would fit the bill is going for (at the cheapest price mind you) of $384! Yipes! I remember checking out from the library frequently a book about a family of dolls by Rumor Godden, THE DOLL'S HOUSE. Yes, I read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Oh, maybe it was one of the MOTHER WEST WING books! I had tons of those along with Mom's originals. I got them for Christmas for a while.

And I remember through school I had a subscription, I guess is what you'd call it, through Scholastic Books (?) You ordered monthly. Hrumph, now I'm going to be doing this all day.

I'm currently reading WATCHERS OF TIME by Charles Todd. This is 5th of 15 in series featuring Ian Rutledge, a shell-shocked World War I veteran returning to his job at Scotland Yard, in London. Here is a description:

In Osterley, a marshy Norfolk backwater, a man lies dying on a rainy autumn night. While natural causes will surely claim Herbert Baker’s life in a matter of hours, his last request baffles his family and friends. Baker, a devout Anglican, inexplicably demands to see the town’s Catholic priest for a last confession. The old man dies without knowing that the very priest who gave him comfort will follow him to the grave just a few weeks later — the victim of an appalling murder. The local police are convinced the evidence points to an interrupted robbery, and have named a suspect, Matthew Walsh. But the dead priest’s bishop insists that Scotland Yard oversee the investigation. A simple task for Rutledge, a man not yet recovered enough from his last case to return to full duty. The Inspector draws on years of experience and a war-honed intuition as he finds himself uncovering secrets that the local authorities would prefer not to see explored. Surely, they reason, it is better to charge an outsider — Matthew Walsh — with murder than to learn that someone in this tightly knit community would commit such a horrendous crime. And yet there are those, Rutledge soon discovers, who held grudges against the priest that had little to do with God or the Church. And in piecing together a different story, Rutledge encounters a chain of events that stretches from these brooding marshes to one of the greatest sea disasters in history — the sinking of the Titanic. Who is the mysterious woman who may have boarded that ship ... and who is the secretive woman who survived it?

It was published in 2001 and has 352 pages. This is from the library. It will be set aside if the hold on new Dan Brown book, INFERNO, comes ups.

I walked the boys again this morning now that it is light enough early enough before getting ready for work. I've got Deadliest Catch and then The Voice to watch tonight.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster