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mystery woman: at first sight.

what is it about?

a woman is suspected of murder and her daughters try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

hm sounds interesting but i don't really like murder mysteries

I like sleuthing.

i used to but i think i ODed on it when i was younger. too much nancy drew and boxcar children

I didn't read that much of that. I like complicated stories.

i read a ton of them when i was younger. but once i could read a boxcar book in under an hour i moved on to other books.

I only read like 3 boxcar books. I did read one nancy drew.

i think i read over 100 boxcar books. and over 50 nancy drew. i loved both series

there are that many of them!?
I was reading stuff like animorphs

there were a lot!
i never read animorphs

animorphs got pretty good at the end! I also read the adventures of tom swift.

let's see what did i read besides those series. i don't really remember i read a bunch of random other books. but i was always reading something and many books i could finish in a day or less but i always had another book ready

I read a lot, but probably not nearly as much as you. I was also writing a lot at that age. I started seriously thinking about writing fiction before fourth grade.

i didn't right near as much when i was younger. it was all reading. i don't think i really seriously considering writing until middle school. i had written some before, mostly fanfiction before i knew what fanfiction was. but i seriously read all the time.

I read a lot. I also learned to daydream my stories like I still do. drawing too, can't forget that I was always always drawing back then.

i drew more back then than i do now but mostly doodled, i always new i was a better than average drawer but never an artist. i didn't do a lot of daydreaming, i never really have. i prefered to escape into somebody else's created world than create my own. i was so good at picturing what i was reading that it never really mattered. i got more involved in my reading back then too. letting it fully consume my attention all of the time instead of just sometimes like i do now.

oh, I would consider my old drawings as doodles. they were terrible even compared to other people of my age, but I thought they were amazing. it took a lot of time and art classes to make an artist out of me. my only talent then was with color. I was always good at knowing what colors looked good together.
yeah, I was real into reading then. I could just read and read forever. but I was always good at making stories. I did it with both art and writing.

haha. i spent a lot of time painting when i was younger. i loved painting but had absolutely no talent for it. it was funny. but i would paint for hours if i got the chance.
that is one thing i was always a good reader, i learned how to read fast b/c i wanted to and it didn't take me long to start looking at books and figuring stuff out from minute hints. it was why i liked mysteries so much as a kid, i could almost always solve them before the end of the book

I really didn't paint much. a few paint by number crafty things, but that's it. ooh ooh, those coloring books that had the painting pages that you just added water to amused me to no end!
I started reading quite easily too. I didn't have friends and all so what else was I supposed to do? lol. I did not like mysteries until more recently. I remember how I used to hate cop shows and the mystery to them. I thought they were sooo boring!

i used acrylic paint a lot when i was younger. it's part of the reason that to this day i know very well how to work acrylics to get them to do what i want. i had a lot of practice

i remember learning to read using hooked on phonics and jumping up and down on my trampoline. it was the best way to learn to read ever and it instilled a since of fn in reading for me back then (though i loved it even without that) and to this day. and see now i hate mysteries, i mean if they are well done they can be interesting but i guess they just bore me know. a lot of them are too easy to predict and others are just too weird.

I definitely only used acrylics in art class. I did use watercolors though

wow, I have no idea how I learnt to read. I can't remember stuff like that! I don't remember if I thought reading was fun actually. a trampline would be cool. I always wanted one. I do hate predictable stories which is why I hate horror movies. they're all so predictable! since I haven't seen that many mysteries, I still find them mysterious. I will say I don't like shows like law and order anymore though because its too predictable.

i didn't like watercolors as much. they got to runny too fast.

haha i have clear memories of that b/c i thought it was so different, it was definitely an advantage to being homeschooled. i also learned my addition tables and probably my time tables on that trampoline (it was of course only a mini-trampoline, but we had a full-sized one too). i think i've seen almost just about ever mystery pattern b/c i read a few up until about high school when i just got sick of them

I always loved watercolors. no one really gave me other paints so that's just what I used until I started taking private art classes.

my cousins who were homeschooled have similar stories about trampolines helping them learn.
wow, I guess you can really get totally bored of a genre.