This is a recommendation of a book that I loved as a kid and often go back to rediscover the rich language and humor. I want to start by letting you read an excerpt of his preface about the book.
     “Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for the part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.” Samuel Clemens, Hartford, 1876.
     This being said, I want to take you on a journey with me in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain. Although the book chronicles the mischief of two boys, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, it also leads the reader down the Mississippi River when times were “simpler” without technological advances. More often than not, Tom and Huck are up to no good, but that is what is enjoyable about the book…two people having fun, not hurting anyone, but enjoying life before they become responsible adults. There are times I wish I could be carefree, to be able to choose between reading comic books or playing video games. Those times are indeed over, but thank you Mr. Samuel Clemens, Mr. Mark Twain, for capturing the kid in all of us, to remind us of our childhood, through Tom and Huck.