I just checked out The Neverending Story for the first time in my career as a librarian. This is the book. It was the first adult book I read. Right after the movie came out I found it on my parents’ bookshelf. (Why did they even have it? It’s not the sort of thing they read. But it was there, just for me, like it was for Bastian in Mr. Coreander’s shop.) I’m sure I had read chapter books before, I know I had loved books before, but none of them before or since ever stuck like that one did. 21 years ago I picked up that book and started myself down the path that led here, to me behind this desk checking it out to another kid.
I told the freshman who checked it out that it was my favorite book of all time. She grinned. I reassured her that she didn’t have to love it; I just had to tell her.
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1 Raven // Jan 18, 2006 at 4:24 pm
I bought myself a beautiful hardback copy of it in the original German when I was in Heidelberg. Such a fabulous book.
2 Jaime // Jan 18, 2006 at 10:16 pm
cute! cute cute cute! You are a great librarian!
3 Eric // Jan 23, 2006 at 9:18 am
I once let a student of mine borrow The Hobbit (our school library didn’t have it!) for his Independent Reading Project. I told him he had to love it. He told me he did. We tacitly agreed to leave it at that. :)
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