Friday, August 18, 2006

Book Meme

Tagged by Sam

One book that changed your life: Final Harvest, Emily Dickinson's Poems

One book that you've read more than once: Constance, by Jane Kenyon

One book you'd want on a desert island: Coconut Lover's Cookbook, by Bruce Fife, because it's a paperback I'm also taking a notebook and a dictionary.

One book that made you laugh: Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, by C.D. Payne

One book that made you cry: I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb

One book that you wish had been written: Sylvia Plath's third collection.

One book that you wish had never been written: Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card (You should have quit while you were ahead, Orson.)

One book you're currently reading: White Sea, by Cleopatra Mathis

One book you've been meaning to read: By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women's Journeys In and Out of Exile, by MarĂ­a de los Angeles Torres


I'm tagging: Emmy, Sheryl, A.D., Jenni, and David.







4 comments:

sam of the ten thousand things said...

Kenyon is wonderful. Plath is a great pick. Thanks Suzanne.

Suzanne said...

It was tough to pick just one, but fun to cruise all the bookshelves. :-)

Anonymous said...

Ditto on Plath's third collection. What a shame that she didn't live to write more. A true loss to literature.

Emmy said...

A great list! And thank you for bringing me back to my blog after an absence.