The Living Room

Article posted September 9, 2010 at 05:15 PM GMT0 • Reads 57

My favorite place to read is my living room. It is a medium green color with white woodwork. Along one wall is a large fireplace, flanked by two windows. On the front of the house are two windows that are over 5 feet tall. This space gets lots of light. The floors are stained a light oak and I refinished them two summers ago. There are also two Persian rugs that are very soft, they are a hand-woven wool/silk combination. There are two chairs and a large sofa. When I am reading the cat usually claims a spot of sun during the day or the table if it is dark.

I love this space for its light and quietness. We get great natural light and have reading lamps for night time. We use this room for entertaining and reading. There is no television or stereo so it is very quiet. I love lying on the sofa and reading, but usually end up in one of the chairs. I think that everything goes back to being in a comfortable enough space for the imagination to flow. This state of mind allows fiction to be believable and for non-fiction to be learned and connected to other similar ideas.

One is the loneliest number

Article posted October 7, 2010 at 07:00 PM GMT0 • Reads 82

“Watership Down” would be the one book I would choose to read the rest of my life. It follows the lives of a group of rabbits who leave their warren to find a better place to live. They have a lot of challenges to get to the right place and life seem great, until they realize they have no does. So this group searches for other warrens; they find one, only to have the emissaries barely escape with their lives. The group crafts a plan and the rest of the story, is the rest of the story. Read it to find out.

“Watership Down” has it all. There is action, adventure, and romance. This story is allegory so there are layers of the story. It has fable and myth interspersed with the story, so there are further messages than just the allegorical ones. I first read this book in 6th grade and have reread it at least 10 times since then. Each time I find something new to think about and apply. It is truly a book for the ages.