Choose Your Own Adventure: Volume 2

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I remember when our oldest son was around 10 years old how much he enjoyed the Choose Your Own adventures series of books.

Here’s a description from Wikipedia:

Choose Your Own Adventure, or Secret Path Books is a series of children’s gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character’s actions and the plot’s outcome. Choose Your Own Adventure, as published by Bantam Books, was one of the most popular children’s series during the 1980s and 1990s, selling more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998.

While I may have only read one of them just to see what it was like, I always thought it was a clever idea for a book series.

The books came back to me tonight as I was trying to think of something to write about. I had already scanned through The Wall Street Journal, the HuffPost, Seth Godin, and Fred Wilson, to no avail.

Then I went to StudyFinds, and I was overwhelmed with so many appealing topics to select from. So I thought rather than choosing just one that may have the most appeal to me, but not to you (notice how I am writing in the second person).

So I thought I would offer you a choice among a few different options, all of which I found interesting.

I hope the adventure you chose was all you hoped it would be 🙂

*image from Suggested Reads

**Volume 1 can be found here

Published by Jim Borden

A 60-something guy trying to figure out the world, and his place in it. Happily married for 40-plus years, three wonderful sons. Accounting teacher, fitness enthusiast, blogger, reader.

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73 thoughts on “Choose Your Own Adventure: Volume 2”

  1. I loved the Choose your Own Adventure books, especially for long road trips.
    Nice idea to let us choose, I know one subject that Tippy won’t choose. I think I need to read it so I can be helpful and point out the 7 good reasons to him!

    As for the kind deeds, I bet you do a lot more than you realize. How many times in a day do you hold the door open for someone or smile at someone? Wishing someone a good day, “liking” someone’s post. They all add up. 🙂

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    1. I thought of you and Tippy when I saw that coffee one…

      and it looks like if I just like about 3 blogs per day for the rest of my life, I should hit that 25,000 number. Nice that I never have to leave my chair…

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      1. You are welcome, now you can rest easy knowing you will hit 25,000. 🙂
        Though if you would like to live long enough to hit 25,000 I would suggest that you do leave your chair for extended periods.

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  2. Those were great books. Now days kids do that with video games. I made the mistake of clicking the last one just to see if there was something actually linked to it. Toilets are not my favourite subject. I may have to go back and try again.

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      7. My brother is a great mechanic. Which is something you might not expect from a professional tax preparer. He taught me a lot about working on cars when I was a teenager. But these days about all I can manage is changing the oil, rotating the tires, and changing the wiper blades.

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  4. I find these studies amusing. As you pointed out, I’m sure there are benefits and problems with coffee depending on what the testers are trying to prove. I’m sure the same is true for studies about watching television or listening to music before bed.

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  10. The thing that I liked about those books was theat, yes, you could choose a path and follow it, but you also had the ability to look at all of the other options and make an informed choice, or choices. I love your spin on choosing your own adventure and I am looking into adding more nuts to my diet now. I hear it will add 8 more years to my life.

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  12. I remember the Choose your Own Adventure books for my students. Jim. I live not too far from UC Irvine. They have a research center to study the people who live beyond 90s. Some findings and recommendations are to have “one” cup of coffee a day and occasional wine. I pretty much drink only one cup of coffee a day.

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    1. Your dad didn’t need any research study to tell him that.

      and I kid you not, we brought a car to a mechanic once because the check engine light was on. He solved it by putting a piece of black tape over the light. He became my favorite mechanic…

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  14. The comment about living longer on a non-Western diet is a bit sweeping given than most third-world countries have a much lower life expectancy than the first world countries. The Central African Republic, Chad, and Lesotho have a life expectancy of under 54 years. I loved Choose your own adventure when I was about 9. I bought some of these books for Greg but he never took to them.

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  16. I’ll try just about anything to get a good nights’ sleep! But I am a true cynic… honestly, I’m thinking I’m the problem lol but I suppose I could click on that article about music and tv before bed helping me sleep better… does YouTube count as TV? Because if so, then no it doesn’t work lol

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