HEY EVERYONE! It’s time for Survivor Recap Friday! Oh wait…no it’s not. Because Survivor was a clip show last night. Boo. I didn’t even watch. I don’t need to see that stuff, I like to know only what I am supposed to know by reality TV editors. Eff that. Stop playing baseball and start playing Survivor.
Luckily, I’ve been tagged by Kim, so I have something to post about today. And luckily two, it’s about books, and I like books. I eat them.
Let’s begin:
One book that changed your life:
People hate this answer, but I give it honestly and with no shame: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Now, I’m no objectivist, partly because I’m too lazy and humiliated to be, but I think it’s an amazing book that changed the way I actually think. It altered the way I think about myself and the art I produce. If I follow Howard Roark, I need to rely on only my own opinion, drown out the doubts of others and believe in myself and my thoughts to be the only one truth I can rely on. When I can use more of that thinking, I turn to The Fountainhead and become just a little bit stronger than the day before.
One book that you have read more than once:
Great Expectations by Mr. Charles Dickens. I love this book. I think I've read it maybe five times. It makes me cry. Over and over and over again. If Howard Roark knows exactly what is going on in his own world, than Pip is the exact opposite. I love his sweetness and his insecurities and the writing, well…it’s Dickens, so you’re laughing and crying and completely amazed.
One book you would want on a deserted island:
This is tough. Very tough. Can I pick a Soduku book?
Honestly, I think I would pick The Bible. I’m not a religious gal in anyway, but I think that would be the book that would take the most time to read, the most time to digest, the best stories, and the most useful when I returned home with my volleyball friend Wilson.
One book that made you laugh:
I guess Confederacy of Dunces, I do remember laughing out loud, but also being really sad. So, I dunno.
One book that made you cry:
They all make me cry. I will say, I just read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and I cried and cried and cried, all the way home on the el. Wonderful book.
One book you wish you’d written:
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. She is fabulous. I love her. I want to be her. I want to marry her. I want to write like her and am happy just to be on the same planet as she is.
One book that you wish had never been written:
Another hard one. Posession by AS Byatt. I can’t read it. It’s on every writers list of the book that changed their life and I cannot read it. I’ve tried multiple times and I can’t do it. I hate it. I hate that book. So sue me.
One book you’re currently reading:
Just finished Obama’s book (which incidentally made me cry on a number of occasions), now back to The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which I’m reading for the second time.
One book you’ve been meaning to read:
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, it’s on my bookshelf, waiting for me patiently. I just can’t seem to get there, but I will, believe me I will.
10. The tag.
Is it alright if I don't tag anyone? It's too much work on a Friday afternoon.
Have a nice weekend everyone.
3 comments:
Ah! The Secret History is sitting right on top of my Read Next pile. Nice. I can't get into Possession, either. Does this mean we're geniuses? Geniusi?
Tagging is optional. I checked with the Master of Questionnaires.
I think we are Kim, because I can only force myself about halfway through and I just can't do it. It makes me want to throw it out the window.
i love that people know the secret history. i think i have read it at least three times.
i read atlas shrugged and i have the fountainhead, but i don't know that i need to read it if i've read the other. and to be honest, i was interested in the plot of AS, but i'd start skipping the "oh, i'm obviously giving some sort of objectivist speech/tirade here" parts.
and this was on the side of a starbucks cup, but there was this thing that said if you're under 50, read 50 pages of a book to see if you like it and if not, stop reading. then over 50, read 20 pages and then over eighty it was something else. basically, don't waste your time on something you don't like.
i used to have the worst time and would have this OCD thing about finishing books. and it wasn't good, because when i go to the library, i tend to just go to new fiction and pull random stuff and take home maybe 15 books. so, not all of them are going to be winners. now, i give myself permission to fuck off if the book starts sucking in the beginning. it's freeing.
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