man sometimes all the weird shit i did as a kid comes back to me and im like "why did i read about incorruptible saints obsessively when i was like 7"
other weird shit i used to read as a child:
- the phonebook
- like three or four books on the ghosts of st. augustine
- the encyclopedia (it had an astronomy section which is where i learned about the hertzsprung-russell diagram and the tolman-oppenheimer-volkof limit)
- manuals on electrical wiring
- "the book of the sandman and the alphabet of sleep", a really old and weird book that was falling apart but was my favorite book of all fucking time until i was like 10 or something
i obsessively read a book my dad had that catalogued all the different types and variations of roofs from the 1200s to the present day and still remember that my favorite type is a clerestory roof. like i read that thing so much.
i also read the manual for the thermostat and hvac for some reason. this was infuriating to my dad because i always wanted it colder than it was and i knew more than him at some point lmfao
not gonna lie that book about the roofs sounds like a good read to me. also lmaoooooo
I read paleontology textbooks as a kid. But my vocabulary was through the roof by the time I was three anyway. I read The Belljar and the Illiad in Kindergarten. My parents scrambled to get books for me growing up. The school librarian called me a monster in fifth grade cause She caught me reading her thesis.
okay but that rules actually. also hell yeah i had a copy of the odyssey when i was like 11
