Telling a story

This flash project is by far the most fun project of this semester (for me, anyway). I just wish we had more time.

I love stories.

As a child, I grew up with Max and Moritz, Till Eulenspiegel and Pippi Langstrumpf, and the Fairy tales by the brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.

I loved reading stories about adventures or pirates and treasure, like in Shipwreck (Howard Pease), Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson), The Sea-wolf (Jack London), Jungle Book (Kipling), and my favorite of all Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (Twain).

If I had to guess how many books I have read in my life, I would have to say several hundred.

I am looking at several hundred now, lined up on my bookshelfs - books by Cervantes, Shakespeare, Heinrich Heine, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton, Stephen King, Tolkien, Goethe, Rowling. And then there are the several dozen non-fiction lining the shelves.

I guess, we can add books to my collectables list.

At some point, I plan on reading everything I have again. Hope I have enough time...