Good morning, readers. The lovely and talented plf515 is off this morning, so I'm filling in. This diary is where we discuss what we're reading, what we've read lately, what we recommend and what we condemn. Sometimes we have a theme, as we do today, which is Favorite Books from Childhood. A lot of these will be children's books, but some might not. Depends on how fond you were of rifling through your parents' bookshelves or the local library. I'm also not limiting this to early childhood, but all the way through your teens. My own list includes books that I read as a child and also books that I read to my daughter when she was a child, so pretty much anything goes, as long as it had some sort of impact on you. So let's jump below the fold, and I'm asking that as well as being Gentle Readers, you are also gentle, readers, as this is my first diary on DKos. Let the foot-wetting begin!