I was tagged by i-write-you-as-a-friend
Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don´t have to be “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag five friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know that you’ve tagged them.
1. The first book that comes to my mind is The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks. The most probable reason for that is that it's the last book I read. I loved it, truly loved it. At first I had a hard time getting into the story, mainly because it's slightly different than from what I'm used to from Nicholas Sparks, but it was a beautifully sad story that captured me from around page 50 and didn't let me go until long after I finished reading.
2. When I was 13 or 14 we had to read fragments of Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray at school for an assignment and something about the writing made me extremely eager to read the entire novel. I came round to doing that this summer and it didn't disappoint me!
3. Practically every Harry Potter book, because does that even need an explanation???
4. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a book I started reading in the bus on our way home from Paris and I finished on the trainride to Taizé. I read it in about 4 hours in total and I've never cried as shamelessly in a public place as I did while reading this hearbreaking book. Everything about it is perfect, it's witty, it's real.
5. Same writer, different book. Looking for Alaska is a book I'd heard only good stories about. So naturally I was excited to read it. But. I didn't like ti that much?? Yeah sure it's a light and easy read but the ending isn't satisfactory at all... sorry John Green, you did your best but it wasn't enough for me for this one.
6. I had seen a lot of reviews on Stoner by John Williams and I was curious. When I started reading it this summer I was hooked instantly. The story proceeds rather slowly, it's not an exciting read but damn is it beautiful. Around halfway I realised how it would end and that nearly made me cry. Stoner is an extremely endearing protagonist and I felt like I knew him, like I'd known him my entire life.
7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is another book that I'd heard a lot of positve things about, and this book too disappointed me. At the end I felt like I'd wasted my time reading it because I didn't particulary enjoyed it and, again, the ending wasn't satisfactory.
8. I lost count how many times I watched Pride and Prejudice so it was inevitable that I should read the book as well some time. I started it once 5 years ago but the English was too advanced for my 13-year-old only-had-a-year-of-English self. My desire to read it didn't lessen however, so I started it again on Monday and I haven't finished it yet but I already know that it's going to be one of my all time favourites. It's the kind of book I want to have literary discussions about, I don't want to ever have to shut up about it.
9. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I loved all three, duh.
10. My mother read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini a while back and I remember how she had to cry at the ending. I purchased it this summer and the moment it arrived I started reading and I didn't stop until I finished it. Wow. Lovely. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Disturbingly real.
Sooo this was fun! I'm tagging inacoconutshell, theflowershop, bebjebenthe, carpediem-laissezfaire, lovelongliving