This week’s Bite Size Memoir Prompt is: Holiday Reads
Do you read on holiday? If you do, what do you choose?
Reading isn’t high on my agenda while holidaying because I love soaking up the surroundings and just be. Light reading at a new destination is usually confined to information from the tourist centre or local newspapers.
If I do need to take ‘heavier’ reading material, I’d select Tolkien’s The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. I clearly remember my first read of The Hobbit.
I borrowed it from the Hamilton High School library. At home, gob-smacked from the opening lines, I followed mum around the house, while she cleaned, and read beloved paragraphs to her. Mum wasn’t impressed. I reread that magic opening paragraph over and over again. My love of the fantasy genre began with this book.
I’m really taken with Smaug, the talking dragon. Although I’ve heard dragons are now considered cliché, I can’t imagine myself writing fantasy without adding my own creations: just need a difference.
This statue symbolizes my commitment to finishing my novel.
[It’s a challenge all right, keeping to 150 words! Contributed to Lisa’s Bite Size Memoir by Christine, from Victoria, Australia]
Christine R 
She probably was, a bit … I mean, how cute is it having a kid following you around and reading to you ? – must be wonderful.
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She didn’t think it too crash hot having a kid follow her around with a stamp album either. Insisting she look at my latest Hungarian stamp sent her over the edge and my album to the floor! Anyway, she was very proud of my John and Betty prowess. 😀
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Heavens ! – quel relief ! 😎
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An interesting bite size snippet! You were lucky to find ‘The Hobbit’ so early!
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I liked Smaug too. And I loved Puff, The Magic Dragon for years. Sad when children have to give up their childhood dreams, and move on.
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We all loved Puff. 😀
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I enjoyed hearing your enthusiasm and introduction to the Hobbit Christine.
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I read it nearly every year. I have a version on vinyl record set and used to play it all the time when my kids were growing up… and often when they were at school too. 😀
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Aw thanks Christine. Lovely images of a little you, trailing after Mum reading. And a nice work around the topic when you prefer the total relaxation of just being in the moment.
I loved the hobbit and was then disappointed finding Lord of the Rings hard going by comparison but I loved the depiction of Smaug in the recent film! Thanks for joining us this week, Lisa xx 🙂
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Muppetry attended to! Forgive me xx
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I didn’t notice anything astray. But thanks Lisa, for whatever muppetry you attended. 😀
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I missed you off my first attempt at a compilation!
Are you on Twitter Christine? If so I’m @Lisa_Reiter
Lx
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It is a lot of work for you doing a compilation each week. I didn’t realise the omission, thinking you had up a selection. I closed my Twitter, Lisa, rarely used it.
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Reading about you and the Hobbit brought back memories of it for me also. My brother found it first, a hard covered edition the same as you have pictured. I can understand your ongoing love of it but have to admit I can’t see how they made three films out of it.
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Hello Irene, I hated the film and I mightn’t bother with the other two. They added extra dramatic stuff, it would have been best made into two films. Three is rediculous!
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Yes I saw the first one and didn’t go back for the next. 🙂
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