As most people may have gathered at this point, I like to read. I liked to read as a child too but my attitude towards books may have very nearly been soured to hate at the tender age of seven.
Well, perhaps hate too strong a word. Some of you who attended an Irish primary school may be familiar with the Ladybird Key Words Reading Scheme, or The Peter and Jane Books or as I knew them, ‘those blue books with the numbers and letters on them’. And while hate might be too strong a word, to this day there’s a part of me that thinks there should be a special circle of hell where the person who wrote those books is forced to read them on loop. Continue reading
Méabh's Childhood Stories 