Just for Fun

[Denzie]

If you could time travel back to read a book for the first time (again), what would that book be? Non fiction, fiction, any genre.

[Denzie Moderator Volunteer]

For me that book would be The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. It led to an addiction for all things Middle Earth.

Later when my mom complained that my youngest brother couldn't write a paragraph she asked me to work with him. It was apparent that he hadn't read much either, so we worked on paragraph structure. That Christmas I gave him The Hobbit and the Ring Trilogy. The cover illustration of the "Battle of Five Armies" caught his imagination and he read it and kept on reading.

[anrean]

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. I can still feel the opening line..."I had a farm in Africa..." The movie was a bust - as movies often are when a book is complicated and wonderful. The book sparked my love of her prose and I chased down other writings

[Denzie Moderator Volunteer in reply to anrean]

On my reading list now.

[Feelingblessed2013]

The only book I have ever read that stayed with me was The Shack. I read the book a few years before I saw the movie. The book was really good, the movie was a disappointment.

[Denzie Moderator Volunteer in reply to Feelingblessed2013]

Somehow I'd never heard of this one. It's on a list now.

[Feelingblessed2013 in reply to Denzie]

It was a #1 new york times best seller. It is written by WM. Paul Young.

[dunnellon]

I'm with you Denzie. The Hobbit was the first book to come to mind! I was 18 years old, in a bad marriage and far from family. One of the women I babysat for suggested it. The Hobbit took me out of that town and into The Shire!

[Denzie Moderator Volunteer in reply to dunnellon]

When things would get overwhelming I would escape back there. I lost track of how many times I read them all.

[JRuthI1946]

Pillars of the Earth

[Denzie Moderator Volunteer in reply to JRuthI1946]

I've read others by Follet. He pretty good. Adding this to my list now.