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Sometimes, like many of us, I forget when I'm blogging that this is a literature forum. It is so much easier to talk about your day, and anything else that comes to mind, that I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned any of the authors who really got me interested in reading. I wasn't a very literary minded kid. I was much more likely to go play football with the boys down the street than I was to pick up a book. When I did read, it was always textbooks of some sort. Normally they were biology, marine biology, astronomy, geology, and many other science related topics.

Anyway... One summer when I was staying with my grandma, I came across some books that were right up my alley of interest. The were a series of books by Richard Pierce, called Frankenstein's Children. They were titled The Creation, The Revenge, and The Curse. Obviously, being so into science, the whole concept of the Frankenstein monster drew me in. They were a great little series about a girl who uses Frankenstein's diary to bring her beloved boyfriend back from the dead. This was just the start of literary interes for me. From these books, and similar ones, I graduated to more difficult authors to read. One of the first was the original Frankenstein. Then I moved to Dracula, and then I found the books by H.G. Wells.

To this day, Wells is still one of my favorite authors. I always mean to buy a collection of his books. My grandma has one of most of his more famous books like: The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and a few others. These I borrowed from her often, and now I periodically check them out of the library. I just recently read The Time Machine for what must have been the hundreth time.

So, if you are interested in the books by Pierce, check out this link. [URL="http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/1733?book=Frankensteins_Children:_The_Creation:_Book_One"]http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/1733?book=Frankensteins_Children:_The_Creation:_Book_One[/URL] The only place that I could find the complete set was on eBooks. Actually, I just checked Amazon, and they are there as well. Just thought that I would share an author who really impacted my love of reading. He may not be the best. I mean, he isn't going down in the history books or anything, but they were some really great books for a young kid. If you have or know a younger girl who is just past or nearing the end of the R.L. Stein difficulty level, these are the perfect thing. Even more so if they like Stein.

Take Care,
Meg