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What’s the first book you remember loving? (literature.cafe)

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 3 days ago

The Little Prince.

Read it as a child. Cover to cover. Painstakingly sounding out each word. Repeatedly. Then for years I forgot about it.

As an adult I came across it in my bookshelf, buried deeply (it having fallen down the back a bit) and read it again. It is a completely different book when you read it as an adult…