Another chunk of my childhood gone
May. 18th, 2007 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerLloyd Alexander, January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007.
I couldn't tell you how many times I read the Prydain Chronicles growing up. It got to the point that I knew the page formatting. I was already a voracious reader, and books like these did nothing to dissuade me.
When I was about ten, someone donated a coverless set to the local library. They are legally not allowed to keep them so the librarians immediately thought of me. I kept the disintegrating paperback set for many years. Even after learning the much-less-simplified folk stories behind his books, I still enjoyed them.
When Henry Holt reissued the books with their original covers about five years ago, I bought the set. I re-read them in the last two years - they're comfort food.
Rest in Peace.
I couldn't tell you how many times I read the Prydain Chronicles growing up. It got to the point that I knew the page formatting. I was already a voracious reader, and books like these did nothing to dissuade me.
When I was about ten, someone donated a coverless set to the local library. They are legally not allowed to keep them so the librarians immediately thought of me. I kept the disintegrating paperback set for many years. Even after learning the much-less-simplified folk stories behind his books, I still enjoyed them.
When Henry Holt reissued the books with their original covers about five years ago, I bought the set. I re-read them in the last two years - they're comfort food.
Rest in Peace.
