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- From: tyg@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Tom Galloway)
- Subject: Re: 92 in rabreview
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.173143.1411@HQ.Ileaf.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 17:31:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.233606.3346@csusac.csus.edu> yarnot@babbage.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot) writes:
- >Yes of course, yes of course, depends on if it's _The Secret Garden_ or
- >_Goodnight Moon_ (length and relative difficulty, not quality), and
- >*comic books*???? You're kidding, right?
-
- Why do you think so? I'd certainly count reading Maus I and II as reading
- two books. Ditto for Signal to Noise and any Sandman collection. On the
- other hand, as opposed to my very strong beliefs at age 6, I wouldn't
- count J. Random Regular Size And Schedule Comic Book as a book these days.
- (The reason for said strong beliefs was that my first grade teacher kept
- track of how many books we'd read, including those our parents would sign
- off on that we'd read at home. Since I went into first grade already reading
- [primarily due to comic books btw] and had already decided I liked it,
- I broke the school record during second quarter and ended up with a total
- of somewhere in the low 300s for the school year [as noted on my report card; I
- probably wouldn't recall the numbers as well if not]. I was quite displeased
- that comic books weren't allowed in the total as I would have easily broken
- 500 if they'd been counted and they were certainly more advanced reading
- than most of the books in the first grade library which were counted).
-
- "The perils of ambulatory reading. If you have never said "Excuse me" to a
- parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too
- much valuable reading time." --Sherri Chasin Calvo
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