Wow! That is a hard question. A really hard question. I have read so many books that I love for so many reasons. I love books that are suspenseful. I love books that teach me about history. I love books that help me see someone else's point of view. I love books that explain things I didn't understand. I love books that inspire me to be a better person. There are books that are magical and fantastic. I love those. Adventure stories take me to foreign lands and show me new geography. Realistic stories show me how ordinary people can choose to do extraordinary things. Books make me laugh. They make me cry. Books make me feel so many things. The bottom line is...I LOVE BOOKS!!!
There are a few that stand out in my mind as books that encouraged me to be a reader. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck was the first book I read that made me cry, and boy did I cry! I'd rate that book 5 out of 5 Kleenex. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein, was the first real series book I read. Once I finished that one, I just had to keep going and read the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. The movies are pretty good, but the books are excellent. Of course, I really loved the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, especially The Goblet of Fire and The Return of the Half Blood Prince. The first time I read Half Blood Prince, I was so full of questions and a desire to solve some mysteries that I turned it right back to the first page and started reading it again.
There are many other books I just love, so I've started putting them on a Resource List in the library catalog. If you click the Resource List link on the left-hand side of the screen (see the pictures below), you'll find my faves there.
There are a few that stand out in my mind as books that encouraged me to be a reader. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck was the first book I read that made me cry, and boy did I cry! I'd rate that book 5 out of 5 Kleenex. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein, was the first real series book I read. Once I finished that one, I just had to keep going and read the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. The movies are pretty good, but the books are excellent. Of course, I really loved the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, especially The Goblet of Fire and The Return of the Half Blood Prince. The first time I read Half Blood Prince, I was so full of questions and a desire to solve some mysteries that I turned it right back to the first page and started reading it again.
There are many other books I just love, so I've started putting them on a Resource List in the library catalog. If you click the Resource List link on the left-hand side of the screen (see the pictures below), you'll find my faves there.