Comments on: Back to the start http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/04/back-to-the-start/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Susanna http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/04/back-to-the-start/comment-page-1/#comment-35942 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:08:59 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8696#comment-35942 Fun topic and list. I always loved books (I remember The Fire Cat was the first book I was so proud to read on my own), but when I read your question, I think for me the first book I loved so much was Little Women. I loved traveling back in time and finding the feisty Jo there, and the lessons she has to learn about herself and life and love and family, while she still insists on remaining herself even though it pains her. Almost as good was the sense of community around that book as I got older – especially the day I sat in the center of a theater full of almost exclusively women, watching the movie, and we all wept together when (spoiler alert!) Beth died. Such a great reminder of the way books show us our humanity and bring us together, even when we are huddled under a blanket with a flashlight, at the moment all alone.

]]> By: Kellie Lovegrove http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/04/back-to-the-start/comment-page-1/#comment-35938 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:27:05 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8696#comment-35938 My love affair with books probably started with The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss (well, anything he wrote actually). There was no limit to his imagination and I constantly push myself to the limits of mine because of him. I still love to read Dr. Seuss and his books have a place of honor on my bookshelf.

Then there’s Laura Ingalls Wilder. Some of my best memories growing up are my mom tucking me in at night, lying beside me, and reading By the Banks of Plum Creek until I fell asleep. She read it so many times that we went through three copies of it. To this day it is one of my favorite books. Her writing gives me my ultimate goal as a writer. To write a book that people enjoy so much they want to start again as soon as they read the last word.

]]> By: Joelle http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/04/back-to-the-start/comment-page-1/#comment-35936 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:22:27 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8696#comment-35936 “want to write” or “want to be a writer.” Clearly this is before coffee.

]]> By: Joelle http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/04/back-to-the-start/comment-page-1/#comment-35935 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:21:35 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8696#comment-35935 It was definitely the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace that made me want to writer. Betsy wrote from the time she was a little girl, and eventually grew up to be a writer, so it seemed totally plausible. More like a path than an impossible dream. And she had so much fun and great clothes along the way!

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