10 books that have stayed with me (in no particular order) Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. Poetic and page-turning exploration of immortality. No, its not cheesy. Id read it again. A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett. My favorite book as a child. Little girl goes through tremendous hardship and ends up happy. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. I like everything hes written but this one moved me tremendously. If you saw the movie, you still dont know the plot. Even the opening grabs you: “My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call....I grew up slowly beside the tides and marshes of Colleton; my arms tawny and strong from working long days on the shrimp boat in the blazing South Carolina heat. Because I was a Wingo, I worked as soon as I could walk; I could pick a blue crab clean when I was five. I had killed my first deer by the age of seven, and at nine was regularly putting meat on my family’s table. I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.” To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. You know why. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Great exploration of Civil War era south thats not dated at all. Read it. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I only read this because I was forced to in class, but I loved it. Exploration of what happens when civilized man goes native. Then see Apocalypse Now which was loosely based on it, in an updated way. Russian novels. Im only putting these in so Ill look erudite, but I did read and enjoy Anna Karenina, War & Peace and their ilk during my moody Russian phase. Military Brats: Legacies of childhood inside the fortress by Mary Edwards Wertsch. This book explained my entire childhood to me. Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss by Claudia Jewett. A jewel of a book that helped me help my adopted children with their journey but also useful for any parent or grandparent who wants to help a child get through a move, a divorce, a death etc. Ive practically memorized it. The Eye of Shiva by Amaury Riencourt. I picked up this book for 99 cents on a remainder table and it changed my life. It describes the merging of subatomic quantum physics and Eastern religions and shows how they essentially teach the same things. I no longer thought about the world the same after I read it three times. If you borrowed it from me, please give it back because its out of print and I would like to read it again.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:27:57 +0000
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