Reader Friday-One Book

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I’ll bet a paycheck (if I had one…) that everyone reading these words today has more than one book on the bookshelf.

More than twenty? Or a hundred?

So…I have a question for you.

If you were allowed only one, 1, uno, une book on your shelf, what book would you choose?

 

 

If a wicked, wicked genie popped up in front of your face and said, “Choose only one book or die a thousand deaths”, what would be the title of that book?

Cue Deb’s fingers drumming . . .

(My answer in the comments–wouldn’t want to give you any ideas!)

🙂

 

32 thoughts on “Reader Friday-One Book”

  1. The Other Side of the Moon, Meriol Trevor.

    A children’s book written by a woman who later went on to write theology.

    I received it as a child before we knew what was on the other side – and it and reality live in separate universes, and I love Trevor’s best.

    A private group has a spaceship, and is going to explore the back – and the crew is mixed British and American. They discover both a peaceful kingdom and an underground society very much like the Soviet one on a moon which has our gravity and air on its hidden side – explore and learn and question – and ultimately each one of the visitors has to make a choice between two wines to be allowed to go home to Earth: one which will remove their memories of the trip, or one which will make it impossible to speak of them. And the youngest, a stowaway, doesn’t have to choose, because no one will believe him even if he talks.

    It’s an amazing story and characters and quests in a small book – and I made a copy for each of my kids because I couldn’t find ones to buy. I still reread it once a year or so.

    • Hi Alicia!

      That sounds like a riveting story. Have they made a movie? I think it’d be a great movie, with the right actors and producers.

      Thanks for sharing this morning, and hope you have a good weekend.

      • I don’t think there was a movie made – and now it’s too late, as science and story would conflict.

        But my youngest daughter still uses the name of one of the characters as her email address.

      • It’s about chess. It contains many famous games, analysis of openings, possibly puzzles, etc. I’ve never seen an actual copy, but it would take months to read, possibly a year.

  5. Probably the complete works of Sherlock Holmes. With my failing memory, by the time I got to the end, I’d have forgotten enough so they’d be new again.

    Or, the complete works of Agatha Christie … same reason.

  6. “Slaughterhouse Five”. Yes I have read it before. And will again. So it goes.

    Thank you everyone for your kind words yesterday. My children take good care of me. I am adjusting to my new life.

    • Hi Alan…I have not read Slaughterhouse Five. Should.

      I’m glad to hear you have a strong support system. Good on your children.

      Have a good weekend!

  7. this sounds like a cop-out, but I’d have a blank notebook so I could write my own stories. They keep me entertained.

    • Hi Joe!

      Not a cop-out, my friend. But just remember, your stories would all have to be between the same covers, according to Wicked Genie Rules… 🙂

      Have a great day.

    • Hi Brian…

      I really hadn’t thought of that option until Joe mentioned it. Maybe I could hide a notebook from the Wicked Wicked Genie inside the one book I choose… 🙂

      Have a great day!

  10. That’s a tough one, Deb! I’ll opt for a spiral notebook with an index to my Kindle Library and notes for a new work-in-progress titled, “1000 Ways to Tell a Wicked, Wicked Genie to Pound Sand”.

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