Wheeeeee… a Book Meme!

1. Book that changed your life: There have been books that I have enjoyed immensely and learned a lot from, but changed my life? Well, the Bible is really the only one that I think fits the bill here. And possibly Men Are From Mars, Women are From Venus.

2. Book that you’ve read more than once: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George, the Harry Potter books (YES I’m a Christian and NO I don’t think there is anything wrong with them — if you disagree, feel free to pray for my enlightenment); probably some others as well…

3. Book you’d want on a desert island: Again, the Bible because it is the only book that I can read many times and glean something different each time I read it. Plus, I’d like to be able to say someday that I’ve read the WHOLE thing, verse by verse.

4. Book that made you laugh: I Was a Better Mother Before I Had Kids by Lori Borgman and We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle by Celia Rivenbark.

5. Book that made you cry: I can’t think of a single one. I could say Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook, but the truth is I never read the book, I only saw the movie. I cried buckets at the movie, though… went into “the ugly cry” as Oprah says. It took me a good 45 minutes before the swollen eyes and blotchy face cleared up.

6. Book that you wish had been written: How to Survive on Only 2 Hours of Sleep Per Day

7. Book you don’t enjoy: Hmmm… generally, if it’s something I don’t enjoy, I just don’t read it. I can’t think of a specific example.

8. Book you are currently reading: I just finished Freakonomics and I’m about to start Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman on audio. This is one that I’ve always been intrigued by (even if it is a children’s book) and I got tired of waiting for Sophia to be old enough to read it.

9. Book you’ve been meaning to read: I have three sets of shelves full of ‘em! LOL Top of my to be read list is The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman which I started reading ages ago and then misplaced one day when I was cleaning up for company. I have no idea where I put it. (Hmmm…. If I were an Alice Hoffman novel, where would I hide? Someplace dark and mysterious, with lots of quirky details. Nope, that doesn’t help.) I also have Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson and about two dozen Tudor/Elizabethan historical books (both fiction and non-fiction) that I would love to read. Finally, I’d also like to re-read (again!) the books listed in Question 2 above.

10. Book you remember as a real page-turner: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Both were fantastic, and they are page turners even when you’ve already read them and know what is going to happen!

11. Non-fiction books that you have enjoyed: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss.

12. Children’s books your family has loved: There are some books that even though I’ve read them so many times I know them by heart, I still enjoy reading them every time. These are pretty much any book by Dr. Seuss or Sandra Boynton.

“A cow says MOO, a sheep says BAA, three singing pigs say LA LA LA! ‘No, no you say, that isn’t right, the pigs say OINK all day and night.’…”

Oh this was fun! I love books!