What's your favorite book?
Growing up I loved to read. My favorite time of year was reading week at school! This was when every class had to take time from their normal school academic schedule and read a book of their choice for an hour each day. My class mates and I would find a comfy place in the classroom, usually a bean bag or a comfy chair that was adult size but could easily fit two third graders, and we would read our books and eat a snack of our own choosing. My mom bought me chocolate covered raisins one year, and it has since been my favorite candy. It reminds me of that day and reading books, and being young and just being happy. Reading has always had this affect on me. It just makes me happy. I have not been many places, in fact only a few that are even worth mentioning, but with books I feel as though I have been so many places!
Lately I have had a lot of time to think and remember these places, marriage does that to you. You get married and start to realize how different your life is going to be from now on, and you start to remember how it use to be. I miss the days of chocolate raisins, bean bags, and a good book, of just having to worry about not letting your chocolate melt and whether it is going to be nice enough to play outside when you get home. The carefree life of a young child. That essence of freedom and life that leaves us as we get older, as we learn new things, see new things, and become new things.
Therefore books, the words we read in third grade start to stick with us, and shape us, and show us a world beyond our backyards and school playgrounds. I wanted so bad to see these worlds, and to experience more of them! But how? I learned at a young age that books were the doorway to life. A new life, one not of our making, one that was written for us by others searching for that carefree, child-like feeling, we all once had.
J.K. Rowling gave me one of my favorite worlds. Stephen Lawhead gave me on of my favorite heroes. Ted Dekker gave me an eye for the spiritual world, and Phillip Pullman showed me true love.
My favorite authors, my favorite fiction books. In the upcoming blogs I am going to revisit my favorite books, and highlight favorite moments, characters and big ideas that I got from them.
It's important to me that if I love a book, really love it, that it must be read over and over. So that it can be relived again and again.
So make a cup of tea, think on your favorite books and get ready to relive the adventure!
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