LOL!!!! Yeah, I liked The Hobbit; I remember starting it the night Dad got the job that led us to where we now live, and another time when I read some of it in a tree!
“Before they could see any more the next little cape hid the houseboat from them. This was perhaps lucky, because even Captain John wanted to see the parrot, and good steering is impossible when you are looking two ways at once.” -- Arthur Ransome,