Kevin's Watch

From one of my Christmas presents, Shadow of the Wind byt Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later- no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget- we will return.

Anyone like to share the book that did this for them? Kind of obvious around here, almost cliched, but for me it was definitely Covenant. I was passionate about reading long before I read Covenant, but never before did I feel that click with a story. From that point on, Covenant was mine in a way other stories were not. I have a similar relationship with my favourite music. What about everyone else?

Covenant opened a world of literature to my view (I'd never have read Tolstoy or Ford, much less enjoy them, had I not read Covenant first), however, it wasn't the first book "to find its way into my heart." The Wind in the Willows would be that book.

I was twelve.
The story was called "A Dog of Flanders."

Alexander's Taran series. julie just got me the set for Christmas so i can revisit that wonderful story.

I dunno...maybe The Hobbit, but can't say for sure. I read and loved an awful lot of books.

--A

Yeah, it's a toss-up between The Hobbit and Tom Sawyer.