1. One book that changed your life: “Tam Lin” by Pamela Dean; I can’t count how many times I’ve mentioned this novel on personal statements and scholarship applications as one of the large reasons I ended up in the English major.
2. One book you have read more than once: “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger. Going on five times now, if only counting cover-to-cover reads. Gets better every time.
3. One book you would want on a desert island: “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. It might be instructive, but mostly ironic.
4. One book that made you laugh: “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut. So much sardonic humor.
5. One book that made you cry: “Atonement” by Ian McEwan. That coda ending ripped my heart out. What-do-you-mean-they-didn’t-have-a-happy-ending? (Is it sad that I could come up with a quick list of at least 10 books that made, or nearly made me cry but I had to sit and think of a book that made me laugh?)
6. One book you wish hadn’t been written: I honestly can’t think of a book I dislike enough to wish it hadn’t been written. So, I’ll cheat and use another art form. I wish “Love Never Dies” had never been done. It destroyed all vestiges of my head canon and my interpretation of the “Phantom of the Opera” characters.
7. One book you are currently reading: “The Uses of Enchantment” by Bruno Bettelheim
8. One book you have been meaning to read: “Wicked, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” by Gregory Maguire. I’ve seen the musical. I’ve read parts of the book (“City of Emeralds”, specifically. My goodness… tragic love story much?) I know how it ends. I haven’t read it cover-to-cover because I know it’s just going to be an emotional trial. I still mean to, with a mug of hot chocolate handy.
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