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30-day Challenge! - Day 18: If you could jump into any book, what book would it be? Why?
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Sep 24, 2021 10:20AM

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I am back to Heidi again. My father's mother lived in a summer vacation community called Fontana Village in the North Carolina Smokey Mountains. She was the "secretary" for the buisness. Today she would be called the "manager". There were cabins, minature golf, hiking, plays, square dancing at a community center, a pool, horseback riding on trails, paddle boats on the lake, planned activities like evening softball on the baseball diamond.... There was a shuttle to take residents/visitors around the resort. I loved Heidi and I loved going to the Smokey Mountains. The two are mixed up together in my happy childhood memories.
[book:Little Women|1934. I love the idea of that ideal group of sisters, all the love and harmony, each rooting for one another all the time, and the mother, so loving and encouraging. Then the setting is perfection, there is a good male friend to even things out a little. Yes, I could live there.

Maybe The Long Earth by Baxter, Pratchett. Very disappointing book series but great idea. You can step from one reality to an infinite number of parallel earths. Its nice to have options :) .
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