Meme Time!

1. One book that changed your life: Such a toughie. I've already answered this question once (1984 by George Orwell); this time around, I'll go with The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. I've been meaning to reread this for a long time; when I do, I'll write more about it.

2. One book that you’ve read more than once: Among others, Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. One of the favorites of my childhood.

3. One book you’d want on a desert island: Probably the Qur'an. And a journal.

4. One book that made you laugh: About a Boy by Nick Hornby. I started reading this book in the powerplant Barnes & Noble at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, and then finished it in segments at various other bookstores over some months. The quote that I still remember, and will love forever:

Life took up so much time, so how could one work and, say, take a bath on the same day? He suspected that one or two people he knew were making some pretty unsavory short cuts.

5. One book that made you cry: They don't do it very often. I remember tearing up, though, when I read Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech in middle school.

6. One book that you wish you had written: What an interesting question. Probably the Harry Potter series; that imagination is not one to be cast aside. :)

7. One book that you wish had never been written: There are a lot of less-than-spectacular books out there, but none of them like, encroach on my personal living space. So I'm not pining for the extinction of anything.

8. One book you’re currently reading: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

10. One book you liked reading as a child? I was a big fan of Goodnight Moon. I had a huge board version that was like, as tall as I was, at three. And I could relate to it so completely!

Thanks E for the meme. :)