What is one book or movie that has impacted your life?
bewartz
Well, I’ve read so many books that I doubt I could narrow it down to one whose content influenced me more than any other. As for which one has most impacted my life however, I’d have to say it was JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit because that is the book my mother read to me when I was learning to read. It’s probably the book that caused me to love reading so much. She would read about one chapter a week, and by the end of first grade, she’d hardly read anything to me at all, so I took the book and read it over Summer vacation.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
I’ve loved reading ever since. I collect books. I have so many that I’ve run out of room for bookcases. I’ve taken to stacking them, one on top of the other, against the wall. Hey, if I can’t have real floor to ceiling shelves, I’ll improvise. heh I’ve told my family that when I die, they should find the smallest public library they can, and give them all my books.
June 28th
Every year on this day, the birth of Hemera (the ancient Greek goddess of day) is celebrated. Festivals in her honor begin at sunrise and last until the setting of the sun.
On this date in the year 1916, Reformed Alexandrian Witch and author Stewart Farrar was born in Highams Park, Essex, England.
Ra Goes forth to propitiate Nun on the 15th day of Mesore.
Comments (7)
I like the library idea. A lot. I’ve been to some tiny libraries, too.
My mother loves The Hobbit, too. I’ve never read it, but I probably will some day. The first book I ever read on my own (that my parents didn’t read to me) was Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit. That was a good book. =)
the one book – i would probably have to say that was f scott fitzgerald’s “the great gatsby”…sometimes i still see my own personal green light. sometimes i envision my own “Daisy” and wonder if I’ll ever for some Godly reason get back with that person and get married. I know, I just said…I am living on a dream. My favorite quote of all time:
Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!” or “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”.
or even: ” (Gatsby) stretched his hand deseparately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save fragment of the spot the she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast…and he knew that he had lost a part of it, the freshest and best part, forever.”
god….i love this book!
I like John Jakes “The Bastard” as it was the first book I read by choice!!! I didn’t/couldn’t read as a child. My dad gave me the Jakes book when I was in HS and it took me forever to read, but I’ve been reading ever since.
One of my all time favorites!
@heidenkind - I love Bunnicula. They just came out with a new book a couple months ago. I forget the title, but it was a Poe’s Raven.
@wunderkind348 - I didn’t like The Great Gatsby. It was a good book, no doubt. But the ending was just too tragic. I felt he deserved more.
@travelerblue - I never read it. I’ll have to look it up. Thanks!
but what makes some of the greatest stories ever told are emotional bittersweet dramas which is why we all fell in love with romeo & juilet, pride & prejudice, and memoirs of a geisha….didn’t we thus explaining english lit, oscars nominated films…the dreams we remember most and our best nostalgic moments are created from these emotions and sensations.