Your Most Influential/Favorite Book
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This is easy. #1 is The Catcher in the Rye and #2 is To Kill A Mockingbird.
EDIT: I'm currently teaching Catcher for the first time, and we're going deep psychology on this bad boy. At the end of the unit, they're going to be put into groups and "diagnose" Holden, and then lay out a treatment plan for him as if they were on the psychiatric panel that admitted him when his parents sent him away.
EDIT: I'm currently teaching Catcher for the first time, and we're going deep psychology on this bad boy. At the end of the unit, they're going to be put into groups and "diagnose" Holden, and then lay out a treatment plan for him as if they were on the psychiatric panel that admitted him when his parents sent him away.
The Scarlet Letter was one of the few high school books I actually liked reading.
Lorna Doone was probably my favorite book I read for school........but that was also in like 8th grade.
Realizing I should read some of the books mentioned in here, I read pretty much every book in our library when I was little. But after college, I didn't want to read a book that was making me think, haha.
Lorna Doone was probably my favorite book I read for school........but that was also in like 8th grade.
Realizing I should read some of the books mentioned in here, I read pretty much every book in our library when I was little. But after college, I didn't want to read a book that was making me think, haha.
Hmmm, I would say that "A Wrinkle in Time" would be the first book I read that I became engrossed in. I was also in 1st grade, so I missed quite a bit of what was going on.
Grapes of Wrath would be the first highly influential book I read, funny how I thought I knew about life in 9th grade.
The most influential book in my day to day life outside the big one is "The Servant" by James Hunter.
I have enjoyed most of the Ender Universe series and actually agree with Angie that I liked the Speaker arc much more, although I also think the Shadow arc would make for much better movies. I loved the Speaker arc pretty much all the way.
Also enjoyed the Circle series by Dekker, the Lost Books series to a much lesser extent.
I didn't mind the Scarlet Letter, although I will never choose to read it again.
Grapes of Wrath would be the first highly influential book I read, funny how I thought I knew about life in 9th grade.
The most influential book in my day to day life outside the big one is "The Servant" by James Hunter.
I have enjoyed most of the Ender Universe series and actually agree with Angie that I liked the Speaker arc much more, although I also think the Shadow arc would make for much better movies. I loved the Speaker arc pretty much all the way.
Also enjoyed the Circle series by Dekker, the Lost Books series to a much lesser extent.
I didn't mind the Scarlet Letter, although I will never choose to read it again.
oh wow that's going way back! I loved those too. And Nancy Drew.
Oh, so that translates to my big kid fondness of Mary Higgins Clark.
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The first book report I ever wrote was for a Boxcar Children book. It was 9 pages long because I made it painstakingly detailed (e.g., "They opened the door. Then they went inside the room. Then they went outside and found a clue. Then they talked to their mom. Then they went back to the building.").
haha, this is exactly how I did my first book report too. I didn't really get what "summarizing" meant.
one of the main characters was a boy, so that's cool. I just imagine lots of boys being like "ewww that's girl stuff".
It isn't my favorite book, but my mother gave me a copy of The World According to Garp when I graduated from ISU. An odd title for a mother to give her son, especially with the risque themes, but reading that book at the moment when I was at that space between career and school/entering adulthood made that book so much more powerful and poignant.
I love anything by Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams. Honestly, Vonnegut's books have probably done more to influence how I look at the world than anything else.
However, my favorite book of all time -by far- is Neuromancer.
However, my favorite book of all time -by far- is Neuromancer.
