leftonlisa tagged me in a thing!
Rules: In a text post, list 10 books that have stayed with you some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard—they don’t have to be the right or great works, just the ones the have touched you.
Tag 10 friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them!
These aren’t in any order:
1. A Mango-Shaped Space
This was the book that made me finally understand what was happening when I very distinctly tasted chicken every time my math teacher said the word ticket. I have synesthesia and I can taste sounds.
2. Stupid and Contagious
I really enjoyed the wit that went into writing the novel and the story line was pretty okay. I mean, it ended up being a bit romantic so that was nice. But really, I think it was how funny the main character was written that got me.
3. No Exit
Just the overall concept of this play is fantastic. I usually don't go for existentialism because it makes me unhappy, but this play is just so genius.
4. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Okay, yes, there's a movie. I read the book about six years before the movie came out and fell in love with it. It's a really short book-only about 175 pages- so I could read it in a night and did so very often in high school. I think what I enjoyed most was the storyline and I wanted something similar to happen to me at some point, and still do. Just a night that spills over into the day where you're doing nothing but chasing something with some really cool people. Who doesn't have dreams of almost blowing a guy in an ice machine room at a hotel and getting caught by a humorously privy elderly couple?
5. Waiting for Godot
I don't really know why I like this so much. All I remember was reading it in English class and at the end(spoiler alert?) realizing Godot wasn't going to show up and feeling sad about it.
6. The Things They Carried
I read this for art history a couple years ago and I went through all of my college career never having the need to read for class, but I decided to read this book and loved it.
7. Romeo and Juliet
It's so stupid and it makes me angry every time, but I can never get enough of it. I think it's because when I read it the first time I was in middle school and I had a lot of really great memories that happened at the same time-- I wrote a fantastic sonnet that got an A, I was introduced to the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and I got to watch Romeo + Juliet in class (my favorite adaptation of the play).
8. The Fault in Our Stars
I cried like a little bitch in my dorm room in my sorority house with my roommate/sister asleep in the bed next to me. I read it in two days, but probably could have finished it in one had life not gotten in the way. I think what got me so much about this book was my already established understanding of what losing a loved one to a terminal illness felt like and I kind of relived that all over again through this novel, but with the bittersweet-ness of first love in place of the maternal love in my experience.
9. Blue is for Nightmares series
This was the series I read instead of Harry Potter, because I was into this kind of shit. God, these book were crappy, but I loved the suspense of them. I liked murder mystery novels more than I enjoyed reading Harry Potter. Although, I'm not against trying to read Harry Potter again.
10. Combination of Dying for Chocolate and Fifty Shades series
Dying for Chocolate was a book on tape given to me by Nana. It's a murder mystery novel with this really interesting romance woven in as well. I listened to this while do my laundry one weekend and my dad thought it was distracting me from my chores and tried to tell me I should stop listening to it until I finished my laundry. I didn't stop listening because it was such a good book.
I spent one summer reading the Fifty Shades series aloud, ALOUD to my friends. The first one I read to Chance, but after we finished that one she ended up busy with her now fiancé and didn't have time to read the next two with me. So, I gave the first book to Alyssa to read on her own and then we drove together to the book store to buy the next two. I was over at her house a lot already so occasionally I would read it aloud in her living room when I was over and we would laugh our asses off and discuss. It was one of the best summers I've ever had, second to the summer I spent as an RA.
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