Book Tag

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Total number of books I've owned: I really just don't know...they have gotten lost, stolen, borrowed and recently we just got "access" to an immense library of various novels and information books most of which are Readers Digest condensed volumes. I couldn't give an even semi-accurate count.

Last Book I Bought: Some vintage (1940s?) school textbooks at an estate auction..most were about the history of the western United States

Last Book I Read: I needed to read a romance novel...as I had never read one. This one was called "Star" by Danielle Steel.

Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me:

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (I think that is the right spelling.) I read this book in the 4th grade at the suggestion of my "boyfriend" at the time. He was a big time nerd and I think this book taught me that I could enjoy nerdy things, like reading and not feel like a dork. I think it set the tone for the rest of my childhood, if you call it that. I really started enjoying books about this time in my life. I credit Brandon for that.

The Stand by Stephen King. I read the unedited version which was about 1200 or so pages. I read this entire book on a road trip with my family through about 25 states. I was about 14 and angsty. It was an escape from hours of musicless driving in the car whilst listening to my father rant and my brother annoy everyone. The book itself was really amazing to me at the time and was somewhat of a metaphor to the way I felt.
After The Stand, I started on the Dark Tower series, which I still haven't finished. I have The Wizard and the Glass, but I need to get all the others and reread the predecessors so I can get back into them again.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I had never read anything like this. Vonnegut's style is so raw and almost like a diary. I was hooked. I have read several others of his books since, but Breakfast of Champions is really my favorite if his.

1984 by George Orwell. Wow. This book was painful for me. I read it a couple of years ago on an airplane to the Czech Republic. It definitely made a huge contribution to the cynicism that pervades my thoughts these days.

I cannot think of any others like that that really belong on this list. I have such strong emotions attached to these 4, that any other book on that list might look too much like filler.

Wolf, thanks for starting this thread!