Books Meme

[alissabobissa]

Snagged from daybreak777

Don’t take too long to think about it.
Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
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[lint138]

14. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

I feel infinate. Word.

What is Winesburg, Ohio about?

[alissabobissa]

Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of connected stories about lives of quiet desperation and solitude lived in an early 1900s Ohio town. It's beautifully written gorgeous depression. It's on my bookshelf if you want to read. :)

[lint138]

Me thinks I shall. (geek love and the other book i got, kinda not into them, at all...)

[callmeonetrack]

Oh The Westing Game! You were the best. (Did you see the movie they made of it? Blegh.)

[alissabobissa]

They made a movie? I had no idea. Your reaction makes me think I shouldn't spoil my childhood memories of it by watching the movie. :)

[callmeonetrack]

Yeah it was a while back. Shane West played Chris and Ashley Peldon (who was like 11 then) played Turtle. (You probably won't know who Ashley Peldon is unless you read Go Fug Yourself religiously.)

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[amaliak]

wow. The Giver. That book was really impressive for me as well. It sort of opened up my mind to literature in a way nothing else had before. I still remember feeling excited about the last scene of gliding away on a sled....

cheers.
--Lex

[alissabobissa]

Oh man The Giver was impressive when I was 12. I compared much of what I read in the years that followed to that book. I still reread it every few years, and the end gets more and more beautiful to me. Did you read the two other companion books to it? They are fairly interesting in their own ways. :)

[daybreak777]

Ooh, The Giver. Awesome choice. Love that one. And Wuthering Heights! Woo-hoo! I've already begun rereading it!

Join us next week!

[alissabobissa]

The Giver is still quite the standard in my mind for thinky young adult reading. And Wuthering Heights! "May she wake in torment." Oh the drama! I will always adore it. :)

[raingin]

Wuthering Heights. Yes.

My friends all absolutely hated it because it was mandatory reading for their classes. I read the book for fun and when I mentioned my love for it, they went all ballistic on me. :(

[alissabobissa]

I read it for fun too after my mom gushed about it when I was a teenager. It's so damn melodramatic, but that's what makes it awesome, right? But yeah, the friends who aren't lit majors think I'm nuts. Oh well. :)