Dear Dissertation: I promise I am getting back to it after this quick lunch break.
Facebook note!
What 15 books will stay with you forever?
Here are the rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. They don’t have to be the greatest books you’ve ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Copy these instructions and tag 15 ( or more) friends, including me – because I’m interested in seeing what books are in your head.
1. The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
2. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
3. Birth as an American Rite of Passage (Robbie Davis-Floyd)
4. Native Son (Richard Wright)
5. Killing the Black Body (Dorothy Roberts)
6. Death Without Weeping (Nancy Scheper-Hughes)
7. Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
8. Betrayal of Trust (Laurie Garrett)
9. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
10. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
11. The Woman and the Body (Emily Martin)
12. The Lorax (Dr. Seuss)
13. D’aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths (Eric and Ingrid D’aulaire)
14. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
15. Harry Potter Series (JK Rowling)
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eli | 21-Jul-09 at 11:09 am | Permalink
Lot’s of good reads on this list that I loved and were very influential to me but didn’t make my list because my brain got stuck going in one direction. Loved Fast Food Nation, The Lorax, and The Handmaid’s Tale. I recommend in all the copious free time you have to read Nickel and Dimed in America.
Painted Maypole | 21-Jul-09 at 4:23 pm | Permalink
i read The Bluest Eye when a local high school parent complained about it and refused to let her daughter read it. It was incredible. And I bet I wasn’t the only one who read it because the mom complained. he he Thanks, crazy lady, for getting more people to read the book.
And The Poisonwood Bible would be on my list, too. To Kill a Mockingbird as well.
kitty | 26-Jul-09 at 1:44 am | Permalink
Great list Holly.
The memes are out of control on Facebook right now so I’ve been trying to hide from there.