Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I believe I answered this on the first day of this meme, but here it is again.

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

I have to say that I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, but I read this for a book club and I really liked it.  I have a serious interest in the macabre and twisted (why else would I be such a King fan?) and this book is about America’s first serial killer.  The way the book was written was pretty great too, because it almost made it feel like fiction.  I really liked it, even if parts of it dragged.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

My non-western lit class was one of the best classes I took in college.  Every single book the professor picked was amazing, and this was one of them.  We were supposed to read it over the course of a week I believe.  I read it in two days.  The dynamics of the relationships of the characters and the culture was just amazing and I could not make myself put it down.  I loved it, and the entire classes did as well.  And it helped when my final paper was about this book, so I made an A for the paper and the course :]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I actually did read this in October of last year, but before I did that, it was apparently one of those books that YOU HAD TO READ and I never had, so I would tell people that I had.  And I knew enough about it from various English classes to make them believe me.  Because I’m that awesome.

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

The 4th installment in the Dark Tower series, which is one of my favorite series ever.  That’s really all there is to say about that.

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

I remember reading this with my mom when I was little and I remember reading it to my brother.  I always loved the story and its one that I know I’m going to read to my children many many times.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

I’ve read the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia many times, but I’ve read this book the most.  I remember my mom getting me this and I think I would read it at least 3 times a year when I was younger.  Then I remember when I decided to read the rest of the series.  I was probably 10 or so.  Anyway, I would have to say I’ve probably read this book about 20 times, and that’s not an exaggeration.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Another book that I already used, but oh well.

Yea, this book had some pretty raunchy parts to it, but I’m totally okay with that, because a man like Jamie is bound to turn you on.  If he were a real human being, I’d be all over that.

Don’t judge.

The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer

Okay, I don’t know that I would use the term embrassed, but I definitely think that I gushed about these books more than I should have when I first read them.  For whatever reason I thought that they were the most amazing things to ever be written for a little while (and this was before I started really reading again).

When I DID start reading again and I started reading really amazing books, I thought to myself “What IS this garbage?”  But it isn’t garbage, I like the general premise of the story, The writing was…okay I think, looking back on it.  But I will forever hate the movies.  If they had cast them different, then that might be different, but… :/

Mile 81 by Stephen King

At 80 pages, its more of a novella, but its the shortest thing that I can remember reading recently, and I really don’t want to talk about how much I hated it.  This was a HUGE letdown for me.  I think for King, it was an effort to get something out really quick knowing that his fans were anticipating the release of 11/22/63 and would eat that one up.  I still hated it. A lot.

The Stand by Stephen King

I think that I used this one already, but I’m using it again.  It took me forever to get through this book.  That was partly because I had to keep stopping and starting, but it was over 1,000 pages long so it was a pretty hefty read.  And still one of my favorites.

The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse

I remember reading this book a million times when I was younger.  I still have it in my book case somewhere, all torn up I’m sure.  It was easy to read, the print was huge and it was written in incomplete sentences, but I still loved it.

Honestly, I’m sure that I read a chapter book before this (this was published in 1996, so I was 7), but this is one that I actually remember reading.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Oh, Jamie. *swoon*  I seriously fell in love with Jamie Fraser, the main character in this book.  This book was so fantastic and if I could switch places with Claire and have Jamie be my husband I think I would.  Aside from Jamie, this book was fantastic, he’s just an added bonus :]

And once again, I’m coming up empty here.  I can think of certain books where I have certain qualities of certain characters, like smartass-ness and various other things, but I can’t think of a certain character that I’m really like or is like me or anything.  So, for the second day in a row, nothing.

Okay, I have no book for this.  There is no book that I’ve read that is like my life, because I have a pretty boring life, other than the random crazy things that happen to me.  I think that maybe I could write a book about certain events in my life.

But, I have yet to read a book that is anything like my life.