Make a short list of texts from your past, even better if you can select particular passages or moments that meant something to you. Without necessarily revisiting the book (you can do that later), start writing about your relationship to it, in narrative terms. When did you read it? What was your life at the time? Write a scene of your reading it, replete with all the ways it made you feel. Then, consider why you needed it at that particular time. Follow it from there—feeling free to depart from the text.
I don't remember much; the stories drift away. Typically I am only left with a feeling, a magnetic force towards the binded pages that demand, every time, spring cleaning or for selling, that I will keep this particular book. That it once made me cry, that it planted a seed in my mind, and I don't know where in the orchard to locate this plant but I know that it is there, feeding my soil for more.
my less-than-representative list (attributed to poor memory)
- The 'Rainbow Magic' series (about fairies and their powers - love em.)
- A few of Jean Ure's books, but particularly 'Ice Lolly'
- 'I am David' by Anne Holme
- 'Prisoner of Tehran' by Marina Nemat
- The Harry Potter Series
- 'White Oleander' by Janet Fitch
- Haruki Murakami's novels <3
- 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding
texts of my nearer-past omitted
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