I was not tagged for this meme by anyone. Specifically not by Doppelganger. But I’ve been getting a lot of book recommendations from her site and then, today, this was there. And I thought I’d give it a shot. So.
Name five of your favorite books.
“Freddy and Fredericka”
“Catch 22”
“A Prayer for Owen Meany”
“The Time-Traveler’s Wife”
“The Westing Game”
What was the last book you bought?
I don’t remember. I buy books very, very rarely. The library is my friend.
What was the last book you read?
“Housekeeping“
List five books that have been particularly meaningful to you (in no particular order).
“The Bridge to Terabithia” was, I think, the first book to make me cry.
“If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat” made me want to do something courageous.
I read “The Lovely Bones” just a few months after Poppy was born, and it devastated me. I don’t get torn down very easily (although Rockford might tell you otherwise), but I felt this one deeply.
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” is the first book that captivated Poppy. I hope it’s just the first of many.
I read the Seamus Heaney translation of “Beowulf,” and it wasn’t for an assignment. I was proud of myself for getting through it. Not only that, but I enjoyed it.
Name three books you’ve been dying to read but just haven’t gotten around to it?
I don’t know about “dying to read,” but here are a few on my to-read list:
“The Year of Magical Thinking”
“Our Man in Havana”
and someday I’d like to finish “Anna Karenina”
