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Let’s Talk Bookish: Six Years of LTB! 🎉

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✨ Welcome back to another week of LTB! ✨

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme created by Rukky @Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits and myself! In this discussion meme, participants get to talk about certain topics, share opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts! Learn more about LTB, past topics and future topics HERE.

This week’s topic is:

Six Years of LTB: An Anniversary Freebie

Prompts: How quickly does time fly for us to now be celebrating six years of bookish discussions?! 🎉  Whether you’re new to LTB or have stuck around for years, thank you for joining us in these weekly bookish discussions! 💜 To celebrate, we’re making this week an anniversary freebie. Revisit a topic that you’ve done before, go back to a topic that you’ve missed, or write about something else you’re interested in. Check out our blogs (Aria and Dini) for ideas!

Wow, I can’t believe that we’re 🎉 celebrating SIX YEARS of Let’s Talk Bookish today! 🎉
I remember first discovering this weekly discussion meme and how it was exactly what I needed to start diving into book related discussions at a time when I didn’t know where to start. I’m so happy that this meme continues to exist—and not just because I’m now a co-host—but because of how it still gives me confidence to share my bookish opinions, even when I feel unsure, and I hope that it does the same for others in the community. Here’s to more years of LTB! 💜

Today is a freebie but I’m also feeling a bit under the weather so I’ve gone for a topic from February 2024 that I missed but that seems fairly simple (let’s hope)! The topic is: Do You Ever Re-Read Childhood Favourites? This was suggested by Jillian @ Jillian the Bookish Butterfly. Let’s get to it!

What were some of your favourite books when you were younger?

Well, it really depends on what age you’re talking about but when I think back to my “younger days” of reading (i.e. school years from elementary to high school), these are some of the books that almost immediately come to mind with little thought. Obviously, this wasn’t everything I loved reading and if you ask me why these I very likely won’t be able to tell you, lol! 😂

Do you ever go back and re-read those books?

As of now, I haven’t actually re-read any of these books. Well, that’s sort of untrue because I read a Sweet Valley High book recently and… Let’s just say that’s not an experience I want to have again. 😂 I think there will obviously be some books that just don’t age well, but I was pretty surprised by how awful the characters were in the series—even the ones I thought I loved. I know it was just one book but it definitely didn’t make me want to try any other!

I do have a few that I managed to get digital copies of semi-recently and I am keen to read them again. The priorities are: The House on Mango Street, Like Water for Chocolate, and The Pact.

For the most part though, I think I’m okay with leaving these books in the past. Maybe I’d like to get some just to have on my shelf (like Silverstein’s book) but I don’t think I’d ever re-read all of them. I’m happy to keep the positive associations and memories intact! 🤭

What do you remember loving most about your childhood favourite books?

Like I mentioned earlier, I really don’t remember the details about these books because I read them so long ago, but these titles have stuck with me or stood out to me for varying reasons. It mostly has to do with how they made me feel, and things I discovered or realised after reading them.

For example, I vividly remember that The House on Mango Street made me want to start writing a story, and I dove into that exuberantly! I started writing in a similar style to Cisneros and I loved it although obviously, that didn’t stick. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was the book that really sparked my imagination and I was thrilled by the idea of the factory and the sweets Wonka made—it was just so cool and made me wish that they existed! A Bone from a Dry Sea made me want to become a paleontologist. A Ring of Endless Light woke the hopeless romantic in me and my younger self was in love with the idea of a summer romance (but also I was obsessed with marine biology and wanted to be a marine biologist). The Pact was my first Jodi Picoult book and I was swept up by her writing and the court procedural style story. She was a huge part of my senior year of high school!

Don’t forget to check out the other bloggers who joined the discussion this week! 👇🏽

Emma @ Pages of Emma
Elle @ Unwrapping Words
Alli @ Alli the Book Giraffe
Abyssal Librarian
Laurie @ Laurie Is Reading
Lila @ Hardcover Haven
Raji @ Worlds Unlike Our Own

If I’ve missed your post this week, don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments, and I’ll add you to this week’s list of community posts ASAP!

To everyone who always participates in LTB: thank you for joining the weekly discussions and keeping this meme alive. We appreciate you so much! 💜

17 thoughts on “Let’s Talk Bookish: Six Years of LTB! 🎉”

  2. Love this post! Going back to childhood favourites is always nice, it feels like a warm hug (to me, at least!) Hope you enjoy the books if and when you do get round to rereading them – especially Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that one holds a place in my heart!

    I’ve had a super busy week and haven’t gotten round to doing a post this week, but I’m so happy for you that LTB has been going for six years!! Here’s to many more 💚💚

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    • There are tons of books that I forgot I read when I was younger but when I saw the covers again it was like a “wham” moment in my brain and the memories of reading them all came flooding back to me. I think I’d definitely like to revisit more of the books I read throughout my school years, especially in my earlier days of reading. It would be so interesting to see whether I’d still understand why the books made such an impact on me and have stuck in my mind for so long!

      And thank you thank you, Lost! 💜 It’s always a pleasure reading your posts and a joy to see you joining LTB whenever you can!

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  4. Oh wow six years of this meme is incredible. I love the topic you’ve gone for too. I’ve only read Of Mice And Men out of those childhood books but I imagine I’d have a similiar experience as what you did with Sweet Valley High if I tried rereading a Mary Kate & Ashley book now 😂 I totally get wanting to keep the nostalgic memories in tact. I’d reread some but not others I think.

    I’m also ashamed to admit that I’ve never read any Roald Dahl besides his Tales Of The Unexpected. Oh and a very misprinted copy of George’s Marvellous Medicine which was so jumbled and incomplete that it doesn’t really count.

    It’s lovely how you remember each story for such different reasons. And I love that one got you writing.

    The Pact is actually one of the Jodi Picoult titles I most want to try. I think I put three titles by her on my priority TBR and I really must try and get to them soon.

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    • Six years is a long time and I was shocked when I realised that I’ve practically been participating in this since it first came out. I think I missed the first year or so but yeah, it’s been ages! 🤣

      Omg, I totally forgot the Olsen twins had their own set of books but I think I remember reading at least two or three of them! Ah, how utterly nostalgic! I’ve actually not heard of those Roald Dahl books but I feel like his catalogue is much more extensive than even adult me knows, haha.

      Ooh, very exciting! I fell in love with Picoult’s writing so quickly in high school and I devoured as many of her books as I possibly could. The only ones that I didn’t read were the ones that involved spirits/ghosts because I was too scared to (even back then, haha) but I had caught up on almost all of her books! I hope you enjoy The Pact whenever you get around to it 😍

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      • I think I vaguely remember it starting too and I truly had no idea that it had been going for so long 😳

        Yeah I didn’t read a whole load but I had at least one of them 😂 I think they were the only adult books he wrote (I could be wrong on the ‘only’ count but they were adult titles). I have no idea if I read the whole collection but I read at least one for school.

        That’s wonderful, I’m glad you fell for her books so strongly and hope you enjoy any that you decide to reread. I didn’t realise she had any ghost books but I’m intrigued lol

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  5. Although having been a reader all my life, my memory got altered after I hit my rock bottom 🤐 I still have and remember my teens years- but earlier? Nope. Ive got 12 & onward.

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