Post by wanderingenough on Nov 10, 2014 20:21:19 GMT -5
1. All-time favorite book Tell the Wolves I'm Home
2. A book that changed your life (and why) Of Mice and Men - It made me fall in love with literature because it was the first book to ever move me to tears
3. Favorite author I'm going to cheat and list Robert Frost
4. A book you think everyone should read The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
I love books so much that picking just one would be like torture for me.
I also loved Tell the Wolves I'm Home. I just read Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult and I want to become an elephant advocate as a result, and I will never EVER go to another circus with animals. Never ever ever. So I suppose that one is slightly life-changing.
Post by estrellita on Nov 10, 2014 22:01:56 GMT -5
1. All-time favorite book This is too hard, lol. I'll just say The Hobbit, but I'm sure there are others I like even more than that.
2. A book that changed your life (and why) Life of Pi. We saw the movie on our honeymoon on the plane (I had been wanting to see it so bad!) and a lot of the views the main character has of the world really shaped a lot of my views. The movie reminded me that it was reading this book in HS that made me feel the way I do!
3. Favorite author Don't really have one TBH.
4. A book you think everyone should read Well, Life of Pi, haha. Seriously though, good book. I think some of the classics are good - To Kill a Mockingbird, The Giver (I haven't seen the movie but apparently they totally changed it) to name a couple!
ETA: Oops, I cheated on the last one. Umm, how about The Giver, I remember that being such a good book when I was younger!
Ok, so I can't choose just one book for each category. But I just picked up and read an entire YA novel between this morning and today, and thought it was really good! It was Rights of Passage by Joy N Hensley. It's at a military school where there are four female recruits for the first time ever.
My other favorite book from THIS year was Winger. Another YA (kinda- more upper YA/Adulty) novel that takes place at a boarding school. Tons of F bombs but laugh out loud funny.
To make it tough, you can only list one response per question:
1. All-time favorite book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
2. A book that changed your life (and why) Speak. by: Laurie Halse Anderson. I was in High School when I read it and it was an excellent book. I related well with the main character also being in high school, trying to fit in ect.
3. Favorite author Dennis L Mickirnan
4. A book Series you think everyone should read Dresden Files Jim Butcher