What is the first adult book you remember reading as a kid?
What’s the first adult book you remember reading as a kid?
Someone posed this question last week and I thought it would be a fun way to kick off my new Sunday Follower Check-in!
If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you know I loved posting these on Friday to say hello, wrap up the writing week, and provide a space for a weekend discussion thread.
Typically they’ve been focused on health through a sobriety lens, and certainly anyone should feel welcome to reach out if that’s one your mind. But I’m mixing it up for my first time back in a while.
This post has been on a bit of a hiatus lately due to time constraints, but I figured moving it from Friday to Sunday would allow me to carve out the time necessary to get it done.
Also, someone sent me a ludicrously generous tip yesterday and it reminded me how much I missed giving out my writer Tip of the Week.
OK, enough rambling.
Every week, I pose a question to get the discussion going. This week I’m asking:
What’s the first adult book you remember reading as a kid?
This is an easy one for me.
I was always a voracious reader as a kid, and around the time of the release of the first Jurassic Park movie, I decided I wanted to read Michael Crichton’s original book version. That would have put me around Age 12.
I had heard the movie was missing a key scene involving a river raft (which was included in the video game though!), so I wanted to read the book and find out.
Plus, everyone knows book versions are always better than the movies, right?
Right!
I loved it, and to be honest I was pretty proud of myself for reading a book ostensibly written for adults. I even did a book report on it!
A couple months ago, I bought Jurassic Park for my son Owen, who’s now 12 years old himself.
Owen is an even more voracious reader than I was, due in part to the COVID pandemic lockdowns that left him with nothing to do but read.
He rifled through pretty much every novel series written for the 9–12 set (and wrote about his Top 5 picks here), but he now says Jurassic Park is his favourite after finishing it in about two days.
A full circle moment for me!
Writer Tip of the Week
When I do these posts, I like to make sure I tip one writer whose work I really enjoy. We all ask for tips here, but I’d like to make it a thing to actually give them out!
Past recipients of the Tip of the Week include Clark Webb Michele Maize Benya Clark Diana Leotta Nick Reynolds Paul Goodman Liam M and Jason Provencio.
They are all amazing writers and I would urge you to check them out!
This edition of the Tip of the Week is going to Adrienne Konstadine (Flutterby). I love her writing on sobriety and she’s always an awesome, positive contributor to this community.
Way to go Adrienne!
My favourite posts of the week from other writers
This is going to be a bit longer than usual given I haven’t done one of these posts in a while. All of these are great reading options this fine Sunday:
- I feel like I’ve been a loser on the Internet for 10 years by Tim Denning
- Twixmas, a time for drinking alcohol in abundance. Or not at all. by Melissa Notland
- Nothing changes by staying the same by Jason Provencio
- Why journaling & sharing my addiction stories with others finally helped me quit alcohol by Melissa Notland
- Appreciating life without by Rosie Stott
- Your first year of sobriety: positive physical and mental health changes and challenges by Dara Laine Murray
- I was challenged to stop drinking coffee for 90 days — this is what happened by Nimisha Gorasia
- I wrote an article a day for 950 days, here’s what happened by Eve Arnold
- Why I’m giving up on cheat meals by Jay Allen
- 5 disconcerting revelations that I discovered at Age 41 and would have never imagined at Age 20 by Alberto García
- Remembering your loved one on the anniversary of their passing by Michele Maize
- How alcohol steals happiness from tomorrow by Liam M
- If you believe ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’ you grew up privileged by Tim Denning
- 6 signs something was written by AI by Sean Kernan
- 4 common questions about the first years of sobriety by Gillian May
Still looking for something to read?
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Thanks for reading along, folks. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
