15 books in 15 hours
Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you.
1. James and the Giant Peach. I think this is the only Roald Dahl book I've actually read, but I love it to itty-bitty pieces.
2. Hatchet. I read this in fourth or fifth grade, and while I usually can't remember the title, I always remember how engaged I was in the plot of this book.
3. Wuthering Heights. I may have been the only person in my eight grade class who enjoyed this book, but I did enjoy it and have reread it many times since. This began my long love affair with tempestuous romances.
4. The Malady of Death. The only worthwhile thing I read in my "Love and Sex in Literature and the Arts" class in college. I want to write like Marguerite Duras.
5.American Gods. I have a serious crush on Neil Gaiman. This was the second book of his I read, and I tore through it in two days. It totally feeds into my love of myth retellings.
6. Till we have Faces. It's funny, because up until college, the only reason I knew C.S. Lewis was because of this retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth. (In college, one of my roommates would have Narnia read-a-longs in our suite, but I'd never read them until then.)
7. The Wednesday Wars. I gush about it here.
8. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. My real life OTP. I'm fascinated by Abelard's story, but it's really Heloise's letters to him that send me back to reread this over and over. She's brilliant, and strong, and seriously has her shit together when the world around her isn't anything like how she expected.
9. In the Garden of Iden. I gushed about this one too.
10. Transmetropolitan. If everybody else can put a graphic novel series on theirs, I can put one on mine too. :) Warren Ellis is a very sick man, and I love it. Spider Jerusalem might be my favorite anti-hero ever.
11. The Book of Lost Things. The movie "Pan's Labyrinth" reminds me a lot of this book. The beginning made me cry, and the rest is an awesome mix of twisted faerie tales.
12. The Decameron. This is a filthy, filthy book and I love it.
13. The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8. This one just stunned me.
14. The Birth of Venus. I picked this book up off the table at reaching_west's apartment, and read it in a day and a half. I liked it so much I even led a book group discussion at the library on this one.
15. This one was a toss up between The Hunger Games and Unwind. I've read both of them recently, and both show just how amazing Young Adult Literature can be. Highly Recommended.<3
1. James and the Giant Peach. I think this is the only Roald Dahl book I've actually read, but I love it to itty-bitty pieces.
2. Hatchet. I read this in fourth or fifth grade, and while I usually can't remember the title, I always remember how engaged I was in the plot of this book.
3. Wuthering Heights. I may have been the only person in my eight grade class who enjoyed this book, but I did enjoy it and have reread it many times since. This began my long love affair with tempestuous romances.
4. The Malady of Death. The only worthwhile thing I read in my "Love and Sex in Literature and the Arts" class in college. I want to write like Marguerite Duras.
5.American Gods. I have a serious crush on Neil Gaiman. This was the second book of his I read, and I tore through it in two days. It totally feeds into my love of myth retellings.
6. Till we have Faces. It's funny, because up until college, the only reason I knew C.S. Lewis was because of this retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth. (In college, one of my roommates would have Narnia read-a-longs in our suite, but I'd never read them until then.)
7. The Wednesday Wars. I gush about it here.
8. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise. My real life OTP. I'm fascinated by Abelard's story, but it's really Heloise's letters to him that send me back to reread this over and over. She's brilliant, and strong, and seriously has her shit together when the world around her isn't anything like how she expected.
9. In the Garden of Iden. I gushed about this one too.
10. Transmetropolitan. If everybody else can put a graphic novel series on theirs, I can put one on mine too. :) Warren Ellis is a very sick man, and I love it. Spider Jerusalem might be my favorite anti-hero ever.
11. The Book of Lost Things. The movie "Pan's Labyrinth" reminds me a lot of this book. The beginning made me cry, and the rest is an awesome mix of twisted faerie tales.
12. The Decameron. This is a filthy, filthy book and I love it.
13. The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8. This one just stunned me.
14. The Birth of Venus. I picked this book up off the table at reaching_west's apartment, and read it in a day and a half. I liked it so much I even led a book group discussion at the library on this one.
15. This one was a toss up between The Hunger Games and Unwind. I've read both of them recently, and both show just how amazing Young Adult Literature can be. Highly Recommended.<3