A Wrinkle in Time
When professor Anderson threw out the question "What books have shaped you?" I was distracted for the rest of the class. I love reading. Some of my clearest and happiest childhgood memories are stories told in good books, not things that actually happened to me. (But I had such a vivid imagination, it was as if I really was involved in the books I was reading).
I enjoy Montaigne's quotations. I think they add to what he is saying, rather than detract. I like the image I have in my mind of Montaigne in his tower with his books, happily studying, meditating...
The summer I turned 11 I read "To Kill a Mockingbird." The events of that book are so real to me, and I remember everything about the book so clearly, and I especially remember the emotions that I experienced while reading it. Whenever I'm feeling sick, I always read that book, because it's comfortable to me.
Other influential books of my childhood include: The Hobbit, The Book of Three (And the Chronicles of Prydain - it's a 5 book set), A Wrinkle in Time, The Babysitters Club (Yes, I'm not afraid to admit it), Anne of Green Gables, The Chronicles of Narnia, Three Men in a Boat, The Selfish Giant, Pride and Prejudice.... All these books evoke such happy memories for me.
And now that I'm "older" I love reading books for the ideas they present. I love reading to find out what the author thought about certain issues. I love reading because it allows me to make personal decisions about ideas/questions that other people have also wrestled with.
Maybe I should have entitled this blog "An Ode to Reading." So thank you Montaigne, and thank you professor Anderson, for allowing me to so happily reminisce.
Gosh, this must be my cheesiest blog ever. You'll just have to take me at my word when I say that I am being completely sincere.
I enjoy Montaigne's quotations. I think they add to what he is saying, rather than detract. I like the image I have in my mind of Montaigne in his tower with his books, happily studying, meditating...
The summer I turned 11 I read "To Kill a Mockingbird." The events of that book are so real to me, and I remember everything about the book so clearly, and I especially remember the emotions that I experienced while reading it. Whenever I'm feeling sick, I always read that book, because it's comfortable to me.
Other influential books of my childhood include: The Hobbit, The Book of Three (And the Chronicles of Prydain - it's a 5 book set), A Wrinkle in Time, The Babysitters Club (Yes, I'm not afraid to admit it), Anne of Green Gables, The Chronicles of Narnia, Three Men in a Boat, The Selfish Giant, Pride and Prejudice.... All these books evoke such happy memories for me.
And now that I'm "older" I love reading books for the ideas they present. I love reading to find out what the author thought about certain issues. I love reading because it allows me to make personal decisions about ideas/questions that other people have also wrestled with.
Maybe I should have entitled this blog "An Ode to Reading." So thank you Montaigne, and thank you professor Anderson, for allowing me to so happily reminisce.
Gosh, this must be my cheesiest blog ever. You'll just have to take me at my word when I say that I am being completely sincere.
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