![]() ![]() It all seems terribly sinister, but it's not so much. ![]() The novel opens on a mysterious note, as police (and an author named Edward Ormondroyd) investigate the disappearance of young Susan Shaw. It was most certainly the first book that made me fall in love with the idea of time travel and with nostalgia as a state of being. One of those favorites was Edward Ormondroyd's " Time at the Top," a slim little volume that packed quite a wallop for me. When I read those books now, as an adult, the words travel through me like an echo. ![]() This is to say, I know them intuitively, with a kind of muscle memory. I know these books in the way I know the route from my house to my son's school, the location of the silverware in my kitchen, the particular sounds of a spring morning. Still, certain books have stayed so alive in my memory that I can recall their plots as vividly as if I read them yesterday. Rather, I owe it to the experience of empowerment that learning to read bestowed on me. Last month, I shared a piece inspired by the Center for Fiction's " The Book That Made Me A Reader" series, in which acclaimed authors share the first books that inspired them to become readers.Īs I mentioned in the piece, I can't think of one single book that turned me book nerdish. ![]()
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