{"id":321,"date":"2016-06-30T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/lost-books_30\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T02:45:13","slug":"lost-books_30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/lost-books_30\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n
\"Book--The<\/a><\/div>\n

I read a lot of books as a child and many of them have gotten lost in the mists of my memory. \u00a0Some of them, however, have gotten lost in actuality. \u00a0This is one of them. \u00a0I don’t remember where we first found a copy of this book. \u00a0I just pulled it off our bookshelves one day and got lost in the story. \u00a0I read it over and over which is what I tended to do with any book that caught my fancy. \u00a0I didn’t love it the way I loved\u00a0Little Women<\/i>\u00a0and the Little House<\/i> books but it was a book I was a bit obsessed with for a while. \u00a0Then, at some point, my mom thinks she loaned it to a friend and it vanished never to be seen again. \u00a0The story stuck in my head though and from time to time I wished I could read it again purely for nostalgia’s sake. \u00a0Now I have a daughter and I have slowly been accumulating all the books I think it is vital for her to read. \u00a0This book kept popping into my mind but I didn’t remember the title, I had no idea who the author was, and, by this point, my memory of the story was a bit fuzzy. \u00a0All I remembered clearly was that the girl’s name was Felicity, she lived as a servant in Puritan America, and the title had the word ‘bound’ in it. \u00a0Oh, and that there was a bit of romance at the end which thrilled my little ten-year-old heart all those years ago.<\/p>\n

From time to time I would do a little puttering online trying to find out exactly what the title was and who wrote it. \u00a0I wasn’t too successful at first. \u00a0There are a lot of books out there and searches for books with the word ‘bound’ in the title can turn up some interesting things. \u00a0One day, though, I stumbled across a copy of The Bound Girl<\/i> by Nan Denker. \u00a0The cover had a puritan scene on the cover which was reassuring after some of the other things I had come across but I still wasn’t sure it was the right book. \u00a0There was no description of the storyline at all. I filed it away in the back of my head and periodically looked to see if I could find copies and if there was any more information. \u00a0Recently, I came across this copy. \u00a0It had a description that made it clear it was the book I wanted but it was more than I really wanted to pay. \u00a0I added it to my cart and kept checking back when I remembered and, lo and behold, the price eventually dropped down to next to nothing and I joyfully clicked the ‘purchase’ button.<\/p>\n

I know this isn’t really an enthralling story but it has made me happy. \u00a0It is a bit of my childhood, of my book history, that I can now pass on to my daughter. \u00a0I hope she enjoys the book as much as I did all those years ago and I hope her little ten-year-old heart is just as thrilled by the bit of romance.<\/p>\n

I am going to read it again myself though part of me almost doesn’t want to. \u00a0What if it isn’t nearly as good as I remember? \u00a0I don’t think, though, that it really matters. \u00a0I will be reading it through the eyes of the little girl I used to be and that little girl will still love it.<\/p>\n

In case you want a more complete description of the story here is a picture of the synopsis that is pasted inside the front cover.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

Are there any books that you have lost track of or wish you could remember more clearly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read a lot of books as a child and many of them have gotten lost in the mists of my memory. \u00a0Some of them, however, have gotten lost in actuality. \u00a0This is one of them. \u00a0I don’t remember where we first found a copy of this book. \u00a0I just pulled it off our bookshelves one day and got lost in the story. \u00a0I read it over and over which is what I tended to do with any book that caught my fancy. \u00a0I didn’t love it the way I loved\u00a0Little Women\u00a0and the Little House books but it was a book I was a bit obsessed with for a while. \u00a0Then, at some point, my mom thinks she loaned it to a friend and it vanished never to be seen again. \u00a0The story stuck in my head though and from time to time I wished I could read it again purely for nostalgia’s sake. \u00a0Now I have a daughter and I have slowly been accumulating all the books I think it is vital for her to read. \u00a0This book kept popping into my mind but I didn’t remember the title, I had no idea who the author was, and, by this point, my memory of the story was a bit fuzzy. \u00a0All I remembered clearly was that the girl’s name was Felicity, she lived as a servant in Puritan America, and the title had the word ‘bound’ in it. \u00a0Oh, and that there was a bit of romance at the end which thrilled my little ten-year-old heart all those years ago. From time to time I would do a little puttering online trying to find out exactly what the title was and who wrote it. \u00a0I wasn’t too successful at first. \u00a0There are a lot of books out there and searches for books with the word ‘bound’ in the title can turn up some interesting things. \u00a0One day, though, I stumbled across a copy of The Bound Girl by Nan Denker. \u00a0The cover had a puritan scene on the cover which was reassuring after some of the other things I had come across but I still wasn’t sure it was the right book. \u00a0There was no description of the storyline at all. I filed it away in the back of my head and periodically looked to see if I could find copies and if there was any more information. \u00a0Recently, I came across this copy. \u00a0It had a description that made it clear it was the book I wanted but it was more than I really wanted to pay. \u00a0I added it to my cart and kept checking back when I remembered and, lo and behold, the price eventually dropped down to next to nothing and I joyfully clicked the ‘purchase’ button. I know this isn’t really an enthralling story but it has made me happy. \u00a0It is a bit of my childhood, of my book history, that I can now pass on to my daughter. \u00a0I hope she enjoys the book as much as I did all those years ago and I hope her little ten-year-old heart is just as thrilled by the bit of romance. I am going to read it again myself though part of me almost doesn’t want to. \u00a0What if it isn’t nearly as good as I remember? \u00a0I don’t think, though, that it really matters. \u00a0I will be reading it through the eyes of the little girl I used to be and that little girl will still love it. In case you want a more complete description of the story here is a picture of the synopsis that is pasted inside the front cover. Are there any books that you have lost track of or wish you could remember more clearly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childrens-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}