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One book that changed my life: Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
One book that you have read more than once: Watership Down by Richard Adams
One book you would want on a desert island: (I am assuming this is in addition to the Bible). This question is like asking me whether I'd like to keep my eyes or my ears.
Maybe I'd say Godel, Esher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.
[Two] books that made you laugh: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and all ensuing sequels. Goops and How to Be Them by Gelett Burgess.
[Three] books that made you cry: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louis May Alcott, The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings.
One book you wish had been written: A biography of Matt and Eleanor Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces. This would make my research easier...
Several books you wish had not been written: The Prayer of Jabez...um The Purpose Driven Life...uh, Wild at Heart...er, The Sacred Romance...well, you get the picture.
One book you are currently reading: Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott.
One book you've been meaning to [finish]: The Idiot by Dovstoevsky.
Posted by funke at 19.08.06 8:31 | TrackBack | Posted to LiterazziWhen I read this, Sarah, I found myself wishing more and more that our time at Covenant had overlapped. What a terrific list of books! I love An Old Fashioned Girl (and don't know if I've ever heard anyone else talk about reading it). When I was a teenager, I read all of the obscure Louisa May Alcott books I could put my hands on. And Dostoevsky...wow!
And I have your exact same red shirt that you were wearing in the previous post!
Posted by: Joanna at 19.08.06 20:07She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
-Louisa May Alcott
Mr. Howard, I am now extraordinarily curious: do you carry these quotes about in your brain, or do you resort to Google like the rest of us mere mortals?
Joanna, I am sad, too. At least I got to spend a night in your dorm room over preview weekend! I don't recall if you ever actually slept that night, however, since you were rather busy with a concert featuring your own compositions, so perhaps our time did not in fact overlap.
Posted by: funke at 20.08.06 8:36I guess we did overlap for a night--wish it had been longer!
I'm still ooing and ahhing over your list--it took me three times reading through Till We Have Faces before I actually got it. I usually don't perservere that long with books, but I could tell that there was something special under the surface waiting to be dug up.
Posted by: Joanna at 20.08.06 23:30Dittos to much of what Joanna said, Sarah... I really liked your list, so much that I nicked it and changed what I had to change, though leaving Hitchhiker's Guide off my list was mostly to not copy yours. Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: Joel at 21.08.06 12:48I stole the formula from Krista over at Colorado Mountain Passes on chattablogs, but thanks you guys.
Posted by: funke at 21.08.06 13:13