Introduction

I don't know what it is with nostalgia. There's just something really comforting and enjoyable about remembering little things from the past. Although I have a place in my heart for old movies, cartoons, video games, and toys that I grew up with, I decided that I really wanted to start a blog about books.

See, books were a big part of my childhood, probably more so than any other thing. I was a painfully shy kid. I didn't have many friends. Most days I would spend in my room, curled up with a book. Once I hit my early teens, whatever I couldn't find at my school library to read, I would take the bus up to the closest local library and get as many books as I could carry. I read. A lot.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the books I read growing up, from A Wrinkle In Time to Harry Potter to Babysitters Club stuff to Redwall to my first over-the-top romance novels to the crazy Beatnik poetry I devoured when I teenager. So I decided to start a book where I would re-read and re-experience all of these books. Thus, the Nostalgia Book Project is born. I'm going to take books I read when I was younger and talk about my general experience and what it was like reading them way back when versus how I feel about them as an adult. I will also, on some occasions, read stuff suggested to me that I somehow missed out on when I was a kid but was or is super popular (for instance, I have never read Ender's Game or Catcher In The Rye but most everyone else I know has, so I'm keen to tackle those). I'm excited to re-visit all of these books and hoping to encourage others to as well! So let the project begin!