I have a few friends who knit and blog and we've decided to embark on a blog project that has nothing to do with knitting. We're going to take turns coming up with a topic every Thursday and we each have to blog about it by the end of that day and post links to each others' blogs so that people can see our different perspectives on the same topic.
Check out the backstory about how the project was conceived and how we all came together.
Here are the other blogs:
Froggie Knits Like Crazy
Charmingly Random
Desperate Madness
This week's topic comes from Desperate Madness: What's your absolute favorite book?
This is such a hard question for me to answer. I've always been a bookaholic. My subject line comes from the song "Belle" from "Beauty and the Beast," said at a point where she's walking through the town while reading at the same time. I also can walk while reading, as I do it on my treadmill all the time. I have a lot of favorite books and authors. Too many to even name! Asking me to pick just one is like asking me which of my children is my favorite. Impossible! However, I do want to talk about a book that has resonated and stuck with me for the past 12 years: "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb.
I don't know what it is about this book, but I think about it all the time and still remember parts of it like I just read it yesterday. I love that Wally Lamb can write a woman (Dolores Price) so convincingly that I forget he's a man. It's one of those books that I couldn't put down and have since recommended to everyone I know (and even loaned out recently). It even inspired me to get an apartment for my last year of college. Despite how dark some parts of the book were, I couldn't stay away. It's definitely not a light and fluffy chick lit romance novel. It's a coming of age story that is both sad and uplifting. I always hoped for a sequel, but Dolores does get a cameo in one of his other books and you get to find out what she's been up to since this story.
No matter how many books I loved in the past and will love in the future, "She's Come Undone" will always be there to set the bar for excellent writing and storytelling.
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You know, I haven't read that book yet, and I know you've metioned it before. I think I'm going to have to pick it up for sure, and read it! :)
Well, you'll need to go on a kid-free vacation where you can read all day long because it's impossible to put down!
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