Big A little a has posted a book meme, and on this slow Friday afternoon I think I will give it a try. I look forward to reading everyone else’s after I post this. I didn’t want to cheat and read them first. 🙂
1. One book that changed your life?
This is going to sound preachy, but really I read because each book I love changes my life a little. I gain a new perspective, see things from a different pair of eyes, and understand something a little deeper. To narrow it down, I would say that The Giver by Lois Lowry changed the way I viewed my own colorful world, giving it more depth and more wonder.
2. One book you have read more than once?
I am not a re-reader by habit. My husband is and it can drive me wild that he would rather re-read a book than try something new. But when I was a child, I read the Little House on the Prairie series so many times that even being very careful I wore out an entire set. I still have my tattered and taped set from my childhood.
3. One book you would want on a desert island?
I don’t know. I was an English major in undergraduate school and loved a lot of the books I read. I use that as my excuse for now reading children’s books almost exclusively. I did my time in the classics. So I would say that it would probably be something by one of the great English authors and it would be nice if it was an anthology by someone who did novels as well as poetry. I’m not sure I could live without reading poetry.
4. One book that made you laugh?
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen. I consider this one of the funniest books ever written. I recommend it to all male readers. If you haven’t read it, you must!!
5. One book that made you cry?
I tend to be a weeper. Lovely books that aren’t sad at all can get me crying just because they end.
6. One book you wish had been written?
I wish I had written down more in a journal when my sons were tiny. So that I would have a book for each of them to treasure.

7. One book you wish had never been written?
This will probably seem strange. But I wish that Lowry had never written a sequel to The Giver. I loved the ambiguity of the ending, the gasp that would escape readers, and the fact that they alone had to wrestle with the possibilities of what may have happened.
8. One book you are currently reading?
I am reading Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan.
9. One book you’ve been meaning to read?
I have such a huge list of titles I mean to read. But top of the list are:
Dreamhunter by Elizabeth Knox
Wide Awake by David Levithan
Last Days by Scott Westerfeld
Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
This Is All by Aidan Chambers

A big thank you to A Fuse #8 Production for mentioning that we are both featured in the Cites & Insights article Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle.
I also want to thank Walt Crawford, author of the article, for looking at the deep dark middle ground of library blogs. That’s exactly where you will find the children’s librarians. 🙂
My blog scored high in number of posts along with my other blog, Sites and Soundbytes. Of course, no one could come close to Fuse on that or several other categories. I am constantly amazed by Fuse’s ability to post so much each day. And such wonderfully clever stuff too.
Fuse wonders why other kidlit bloggers are not listed. Me too. Perhaps they are sometimes not easily identified as librarians? After all, we can’t all go on and on about the original Winnie the Pooh living right in our library, can we? 😉 Thus further securing her reign as posting queen of the Great Middle. 😛