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Mar 13
2 min

Next Guest Author Readup - Guinevere - At the Dawn of Legend by Cheryl Carpinello

Join Brad Swift and I for our next Guest author readup, next week @ 10 MT. I'll be reading chapters of Cheryl Carpinello's book, Guinevere

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ReadingMagic -Who are some of your favorite villains from children or YA books and why? Day 28

Benjamin Fife

Feb 16
2 min

ReadingMagic -Who are some of your favorite villains from children or YA books and why? Day 28

villains who see themselves as the hero, or are put in the villain role not based on their villainy, but rather because that was just the si

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ReadingMagic -What kid's book did/do you read to your kids over & over & over & over & over...Day 27

Benjamin Fife

Feb 13
5 min

ReadingMagic -What kid's book did/do you read to your kids over & over & over & over & over...Day 27

THE BIG BOOK. That's what we call it. We have literally thousands of books in our home, But when we say "the big book," there's only one th

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ReadingMagic - What books have you read as a family? - Day 26 -The Fife Fam Fav's List

Benjamin Fife

Feb 12
3 min

ReadingMagic - What books have you read as a family? - Day 26 -The Fife Fam Fav's List

This is what my wife & I could remember that we've read to the kids in the last 12 or so years. We take turns picking which book to read.

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ReadingMagic - What Funny books do you remember from your childhood? part 2 - Day 24

Benjamin Fife

Feb 9
3 min

ReadingMagic - What Funny books do you remember from your childhood? part 2 - Day 24

if not apparent from my posts, I'm rather fond of the absurd. I was pleased as punch when I found out as an adult that Silverstein also wro

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ReadingMagic - What Funny books do you remember from your childhood - Day 23

Benjamin Fife

Feb 8
2 min

ReadingMagic - What Funny books do you remember from your childhood - Day 23

For anyone who claims either are not litereature, you have me and about a 1/2 a billion other gen-x'ers who would happily debate the issure

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#Reading Magic -If you could transform into any creature from a book, what would it be? Day 22

Benjamin Fife

Feb 7
2 min

#Reading Magic -If you could transform into any creature from a book, what would it be? Day 22

Dragon. Without a doubt and without hesitation. I probably would have said that before narrating so many, but 'scales' have tipped.

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#ReadingMagic - What Nonfiction book captured your attention as a kid? Day 21

Benjamin Fife

Feb 5
2 min

#ReadingMagic - What Nonfiction book captured your attention as a kid? Day 21

I don't remember which teacher it was that read it to me, but I know somewhere between 2nd & 4th grade I was read Sacajawea at school.

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ReadingMagic - Who are three of your favorite characters from YA books & why? Day 20

Benjamin Fife

Feb 5
4 min

ReadingMagic - Who are three of your favorite characters from YA books & why? Day 20

have three characters from books for youth or from my youth that I have loved since I first read them. First is Digory Kirke from The Magi

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#ReadingMagic - What fantasy location would you love to visit someday and why? - Day 19

Benjamin Fife

Feb 4
3 min

#ReadingMagic - What fantasy location would you love to visit someday and why? - Day 19

While I think the system itself would be amazing to visit... ultimately what I'd love to visit is the abandoned mystery ship.

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ReadingMagic -When you were a kid, what kind of book characters did you relate to? Day 18

Benjamin Fife

Feb 3
2 min

ReadingMagic -When you were a kid, what kind of book characters did you relate to? Day 18

So as a kid, I primarily identified with the outsider kids in books. Not necessarily socially backward, but seldom were these characters

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ReadingMagic - Are you related to any writers? Did you read any of their books as a kid? - Day 17

Benjamin Fife

Feb 1
3 min

ReadingMagic - Are you related to any writers? Did you read any of their books as a kid? - Day 17

I knew that my great aunt had been an author. This would have remained undiscovered upon my bookshelf were it not for our nightly readaloud

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ReadingMagic - What was your favorite genre of books you read as a child? Is it still? Day 16

Benjamin Fife

Feb 1
2 min

ReadingMagic - What was your favorite genre of books you read as a child? Is it still? Day 16

I have always & do still love fantasy. When you're looking at lists of books, they really love to lump Fantasy & Sci-fi together.

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ReadingMagic -Was there something else that ever got you excited about reading? Day 15 #readingmagic

Benjamin Fife

Jan 31
2 min

ReadingMagic -Was there something else that ever got you excited about reading? Day 15 #readingmagic

Levar Burton talked to kids about books for kids, but I never felt talked down to. And that was something I was very sensitive to as a kid.

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ReadingMagic -What kids books have you discovered as an adult you wish you had read as a kid? Day 14

Benjamin Fife

Jan 30
1 min

ReadingMagic -What kids books have you discovered as an adult you wish you had read as a kid? Day 14

Being an animal lover from a very young age, I would have adored all of James Herriot's books. But... I didn't really grow up in an animal

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ReadingMagic - As a kid, did you enjoy reading aloud to other children? - Day 13

Benjamin Fife

Jan 29
2 min

ReadingMagic - As a kid, did you enjoy reading aloud to other children? - Day 13

some time or other I was reading something out loud & my mom made me stop, come in her room & practice reading aloud with her. Thanks Mom!

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ReadMagic -What book have you revisited as an adult that differed from your memory? Day 12

Benjamin Fife

Jan 28
5 min

ReadMagic -What book have you revisited as an adult that differed from your memory? Day 12

How many other subconscious messages are embedded in kids literature? What books have you revisited that are NOT what you remember?

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ReadingMagic -What was the first movie turned into a book that you read the book? - Day 11

Benjamin Fife

Jan 27
3 min

ReadingMagic -What was the first movie turned into a book that you read the book? - Day 11

Is there a book written after the movie that you've particularly enjoyed? Ladyhawke for me. Reading enhances the movie & vice versa

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ReadingMagic - What was the first book you remember crying in? The Reading Magic Game Day 10

Benjamin Fife

Jan 25
2 min

ReadingMagic - What was the first book you remember crying in? The Reading Magic Game Day 10

The ending was also bittersweet & the separation of friends, mentors, and a good many other things that I don't want to get into without spo

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ReadingMagic -Which character you read about as a child would you become for a day? - Day 9

Benjamin Fife

Jan 25
2 min

ReadingMagic -Which character you read about as a child would you become for a day? - Day 9

Will Stanton had not been anything remarkable before that. But he was suddenly called upon to take upon him the mantle of an ancient herit

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