I´m rereading one of my favorite children´s books: Heidi. / myLot

Chile

January 16, 2019 9:44pm CST

I was talking with my friend @JudyEv about small beds and ended up remembering about a book we both had read when we were small: Heidi. I often read classics online from the Gutenberg Project. They are free and you can even place them as favorites so that you read them little by little. The only books they don´t have are new books that still have author´s rights. Anyway, here I am, reading with grown up eyes the book. There are so many things that I did not understand then or that were not important to me hen I was a child. So reading is absolutely different as it was to read Little Women later on in life. Have you reread classics and found other interesting things?

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Jo Miller

@pjmurphy (2500)

• United States

17 Jan 19

That was one of my favorite books as a child.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215189)

• Chile

17 Jan 19

I liked it then. I did not like it now. I think that few books can be read again when one grows up. I still like The Little House books.

Anna

@LadyDuck (457412)

• Switzerland

17 Jan 19

Heidi is an old novel written by a Swiss author (Johanna Spyri), I never really liked this book. I hope you are having a good sleep.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215189)

• Chile

17 Jan 19

I liked it a lot when I was a child. I suppose most of it was the beauty of the Alps. My Andes mountains are not a place where people can live. But leafing it yesterday, I found out that it was the sort of Pollyanna book I most hate.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215189)

• Chile

17 Jan 19

@LadyDuck When I went to Switzerland, I told my husband that even if the camera fell and took a picture by itself, the picture would be awesome. We were for a few weeks in Lausanne where my siblings were living.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (457412)

• Switzerland

17 Jan 19

@marguicha Here is a photo of one of the Alpine villages in our area, they are nice places.

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Porcospino

@Porcospino (31366)

• Denmark

17 Jan 19

I read Heidi when I was a child and I remember the TV series as well I have re-read some of the books that I enjoyed when I was younger. Sometimes they are less interesting when I read them again, and sometimes I experience the opposite - I like the book more as an adult because I missed the symbolism, the irony or other parts of the book the first time I read it.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215189)

• Chile

17 Jan 19

I liked Little Women when I reread it as an adult. I found interesting the world at Alcott´s time. But Heidi does not stand a rereading as I checked last night

. The only book I read when I was young that grows bigger as I age is Le Petit Prince.

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Porcospino

@Porcospino (31366)

• Denmark

18 Jan 19

@marguicha I haven't reread Little Woman, but I remember that I liked it when I read it many years ago. I agree with you about Le Petit Prince. I received it as a gift many years and it is one the books I have kept (I have donated many of my other books to charity)

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marguicha

@marguicha (215189)

• Chile

20 Jan 19

@Porcospino Le petit prince is really a book for adults written as if it was for children.