January 28, 2011 – 5:03 pm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
I know that this is really weird, but the high school that I went to didn’t have a library. None. A school. No books. This is for real. When we had to read a book for class that wasn’t a group-read, a lady would bring a cart [...]
January 21, 2011 – 9:39 pm
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
The title of this book refers to a persistent little tree that is growing through the concrete in the Brooklyn neighborhood that Francie is growing up in. The tree comes around time and time again as an analogy to Francie’s life. What is great about Francie is that [...]
January 7, 2011 – 5:18 pm
The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margory Williams Bianco
The original Toy Story, right? I remember my mom reading this to me and me beeing just totally into the idea that maybe my stuffed animals (of which I had about 45 million) came to life when I wasn’t around. The idea didn’t really freak me out but it [...]
December 31, 2010 – 11:20 am
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
To say I loved Encyclopedia Brown would be quite the understatement. I was a little bit obsessed. What I loved about these books was that they weren’t really set up like a story, they were more like a collection of “cases” so I didn’t have to read the whole book every time [...]
December 17, 2010 – 6:05 am
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
This is another one of those books that immediately takes me back to a time in my life. When Shaun and I first started dating, we were living in Columbus and I was working as a waitress and going to school. I got a big fat paperback of Gone [...]
December 10, 2010 – 6:39 am
Cujo, by Stephen King
This is one of the first times that I noticed that not everyone was hugely into reading like yours truly. I know I’ve bragged on my mom before but she really is the reason I’m a big reader. She was always reading to me and around me and providing me with great [...]
December 3, 2010 – 6:46 am
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
Really, though, who didn’t love Anne? Everyone has a soft spot for an orphan, of course, but Anne wasn’t just any orphan. She was sweet and quirky and funny and… a redhead! You guys know I have a soft spot in my heart for redheads (have you seen my [...]
November 19, 2010 – 6:35 am
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
I told you guys a couple of months a go that I am a crier when it comes to books. To be honest, I’m kind of a crier when it comes to anything, but books are one of my favorite things to cry over. This is one that has [...]
November 5, 2010 – 6:40 am
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
I know that this seems like a weird flashback, especially since I usually focus on books I read when I was really young, but this one has been on my mind lately and I thought I’d share.
A couple years after I graduated high school and right before I started college, I [...]
October 29, 2010 – 6:13 am
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
When I was really young, probably 3 or 4 years old, I got totally obsessed with the movie The Wizard of Oz. I would watch the whole thing, rewind it and watch it again. I remember laying on my grandparents’ floor and watching it on their console [...]