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A displaced Jersey girl who adjusted to life in Kentucky just in time to head back home.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Not again...

My solitary faithful reader (that I know of, if there are others, comment and let me know) has tagged me once again. But this one is so geeky, I couldn't resist.

A Book That Has Changed Your Life: The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffeneger. I never considered this to be the sort of book I would like, but then my dad told me to read it. It is such a neat perspective on relationships.

A Book That You Have Read More Than Once: I like to reread books. It feels like revisiting old friends. People make fun of me for my giant book collection and my inability to dispose of any, but you can't throw your friends away. A favorite reread, though, is The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, I can't even begin to describe the power of this. It's such a simple story, but it was such a powerful coming of age tale.

And to make myself sound smarter, I also read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley at least once a year.

A Book That Makes You Laugh: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington. I love British novels and this one is so bizarre that all you can do is giggle over it.

A Book That Made You Cry: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, I didn't get a lot of sleep while reading this. It was a mystery and a love story and an emotional whirlwind all in one novel. It's another one I never would have bought for myself, but it turned out to be the best birthday present I had ever gotten.

A Book You Wish You Had Written: You mean besides wishing I had a piece of the Harry Potter pie? I would have to say Empire Falls by Richard Russo. It's this wonderfull complex tale that boils down to a father's love for his daughter.

A Book You Are Currently Reading
My tastes are way schizophrenic.
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Anne Brashares
Milestones in Microbiology, Thomas D. Brock
goodbye lemon
, Adam Davies
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Dracula Tape, Fred Saberhagen
Microbe Hunters, Paul de Kruif
PopCo, Scarlett Thomas

A Book You Have Been Meaning To Read:
Gilead,
Marilynne Robinson
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Art of War
, Sun Tzu
The Handmaid's Tale
, Margaret Atwood
Rememberance of Time Past, Marcel Proust

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Again, I am too lame to have anyone to tag. If I have any other readers out there, make yourself known.

1 Comments:

At 6:28 PM, Blogger jerseyaikidogirl said...

Yay! I have two readers :) I'm fiarly new to blogging myself. And actually heading back to the northeast...we could trade.

 

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