Bibliomemophilia

I'm in love with memes; I fill them out even when I don't have the guts to send them to anyone because my friends are so sick of receiving them from me. Here's a new book-themed one I came across in today's Shelf Awareness:

On nightstand now: This Book Will Change Your Life by A.M. Homes; Hit by a Farm by Katherine Friend; Lost & Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
Favorite book when you were a child: There were so many! I loved A Little Princess, Little Women, Mandy, Among the Dolls, Harriet the Spy, the Trixie Belden series, the Little House books, anything by Roald Dahl or Edward Eager
Top five authors: William Goldman, Laurie King, Robert Crais, Bill Bryson, Roald Dahl
Book you've "faked" reading: The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell
Book you are an "evangelist" for: The Princess Bride by William Goldman -- it is, hands down, the most entertaining book I've ever read
Book you've bought for the cover: Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold -- fortunately, the story lived up to the cover
Book that changed your life: Tisha by Anne Hobbs & Robert Specht -- it ignited in me a passion for Alaska and other frontiers; and it truly made me believe that one person, by doing the right thing and sticking to her guns, can make a difference in others' lives
Favorite line from a book: There are many. Here's one: "Only the prospect of death -- one's own, or of others, it makes no difference -- makes life real. Death is the one true certainty. When we die, the world does not alter, but comes to an end. Death is not an event in life." - from A Philosophical Investigation by Philip Kerr
Book you most want to read again for the first time: The Princess Bride, of course, and Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

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