Authors Game Cards

My trip was wonderful. Along the way though, I had found a few things that reminded me of my youth…and was weird, coincidental, or just plain wonderful.

Before my traveling friend and I got to one of our destinations in Concord, Massachusetts, I told her my story about a deck of playing cards that I had when I was little; I was around 9 or 10. The deck of cards was not just playing cards but they included a number of famous authors and the books that each wrote.

After going into the Old North Bridge Visitors Center in Concord, Massachusetts, I wandered around the little gift shop. Lo and behold, I stopped in front of a shelf and there to my utter surprise was that deck of Authors Card Game! It was exactly the same deck that I had as a child. Of course I bought them. Later when we went back to the place where we staying, I opened the box up.

Besides playing cards, one can play a game about the author’s and what books they wrote. The Author’s included were: Mark Twain, David Copperfield, Robert Louise Stevenson, William Shakespeare, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry W. Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, and only one woman, Louise May Alcott!

When I first had these cards as a little kid, I knew that I wanted to read every book that the author’s wrote. But more importantly, it inspired me to want to be a writer. I also wanted, one day, to be included in the deck of Author’s Cards.

Still hoping J!