I was tagged to write for this Meme on my blog and supposedly it'sbecause I'm so well read but one thing I've learned from blogging isthat I'm not so well read. I'm just well read in certain circles.Around here I'm just another bibliophile but I love the company ofother bibliophiles. I took some liberties with this and crossed out twofor two different reasons.
- One book that changed my life
- My Life So Far by Jane Fonda - I typed that and it sounds crazy but it's the truth. At the point in my life when I read this book I was struggling in a marriage and continued a battle with body image issues that I had been fighting for years. She is a controversial personality that but it was the first time that I read about someone else struggling with their body image and how it was tied in to making men happy. There were parallels between our lives and it was the first glimpse I had of what would be beyond those walls. Actually it was the first biography of a woman I had read. My therapist at the time in an attempt to help me get out of the destructiveness that I was in suggested that I surround myself with strong women and read about strong women. I see this book as a first step in a long journey.
- Honorable Mention: eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert. - This book came into my orbit via a friend's suggestion and at a time when I was overwhelmed with loneliness and a love lost. It was through reading this that I woke up and realized that it wasn't the end of my world. Life and love was out there and I wasn't going to find it crying for myself at home.
- One Book That I've Read More Than Once
- Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. - This book is story of love. Love in all of it's varied, beautiful and tragic forms. Love and its evolution over the course of a lifetime.
- One Book That Made Me Laugh
- Your Personal Penguin by Sandra Boynton (Sure it's a board book but it makes me laugh. I read a lot of board books to the cake muncher. Here is Davy Jones Singing the book.
- One Book That Made Me Cry
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.
Mothers for miles around worried about the Zuckerman's swing. They feared some child would fall off. But no child ever did. Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will. (Chapter X)
- <strike>One Book That I Wish I Had Written</strike>
- <strike>One Book That I Wish Had Never Been Written.</strike>
- One Book That I'm Currently Reading
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - I'm loving it!! I haven't been writing about the books I read because I think that I suck as a book reviewer but I just might do this one.
- One Book That I'm Meaning To Read
What is your ONE book?
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Comments: 36
I tried coming up with answers for these, but can't come up with something for all of the descriptions yet.
Lyndon: My TBR list is huge but I'll be lucky if I get half of my 50 book goal accomplished. Reading is a descent substitute for sex right?
Thanks J! I've been writing too much tonight.
I'm resourceful like that.
Nothing earth shattering.
Charlotte's Web made me cry, too. But a lot of things do!
Another interesting thread. Some of those poses are quite challenging....
Harold's Purple Crayon
Because I'm male and have less of the chemical that causes tears, no book has ever made me cry. In fact, until you mentioned it in your article, the concept had never even occurred to me.
Speaking of body image problems - BYU did a study that found that 60-70% of girls who read 17 magazine have eating disorders. I wonder if there's a similar correlation between married women who have body image problems, and husbands who read/look at porn.