Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968? Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:07:15 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:07:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3680f081d166b5eaa41e8361538aaee8"; logging-data="764835"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/RHkFeH+Tz33T+ZV4w8VDwFyNyOmgGBAc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:YrNcFN7ZJjQa0yp73gibm9wSOzM= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2950 On 7/29/2024 7:53 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: > On 7/29/2024 3:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >> On 7/29/2024 12:23 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote: >>> Jay E. Morris wrote: >>>> >>>> I would have been checking books out of the small town school >>>> library so >>>> anything I was reading in 68 wouldn't have been published in 68. Or 67, >>>> or 66 and maybe a couple year before.[1] Well, there may have been the >>>> rare exception in the drugstore revolving book rack that I convinced >>>> Mom >>>> to buy. >>> >>> My elementary school had a small library but one that had been >>> excellently-curated some time in the 1920s and not really updated >>> since then.  I thought this was very cool and read a lot of Jules >>> Verne and >>> souvenir booklets from the Sesquicentennial. >>> >>> Then I discovered that in the attic of the school were stacks of books >>> that had been removed from the library, including a full set of the >>> original Tom Swift books.  These probably didn't have quite the effect >>> that they would have had on the original readers, since the idea of >>> building your own cars and airplanes was not as farfetched as when the >>> books were originally written.  But I think this might have made them >>> more appealing since they were relatively achievable fantasies.  I have >>> since then built my own car out of scrap parts. >>> --scott >> >> "Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (Official Audio)" >> >> https://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2024/07/29/mon-july-29-2024-busy-day-today/ >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOMcAlO7rQ Oops ! I meant to give this URL for "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9F2DT8iEQ Lynn