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I've just been trying to remember. Being in a big family of readers 1 book would get passed around (from the Library) so we basically read the same as our older siblings. Here's a list I remembered:

Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Hobbit
Little Grey Men
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Wizard of Oz
All the Doctor Dolittle books
The Jennings books
King Solomon's Mines
The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe
The Time Machine
The Chrysalids
The kraken Wakes
Escape!!

The Guinness Book of Records
The Dunlop book of facts
The World Atlas
The AA route planner
The Observer book of Birds
The Observer book of planets

Doctor Who Annuals
Rupert Bear Annuals
Beano Annuals
Dandy Annuals
"Goal!!" Annuals

So sad and must’ve been an awful way to go.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-69099744

Arithmatic
by Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your
head.
Arithmetic tell you how many you lose or win if you know how
many you had before you lost or won.
Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven -- or five
six bundle of sticks.
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand
to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and
you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the
answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again
and see how it comes out this time.
If you take a number and double it and double it again and then
double it a few more times, the number gets bigger and bigger
and goes higher and higher and only arithmetic can tell you
what the number is when you decide to quit doubling.
Arithmetic is where you have to multiply -- and you carry the
multiplication table in your head and hope you won't lose it.
If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, and you
eat one and a striped zebra with streaks all over him eats the
other, how many animal crackers will you have if somebody
offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say
Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix?
If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she
gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is
better in arithmetic, you or your mother?

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Looks like there is now boing to be a 2nd Cuban Missile Crisis:
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I said it before and I will be saying it again:
"What The Fuck Was Yeltsin Thinking When He Appointed Putin To Be His Successor???!!!".