Because WonderTurtle Said So...

A Book That Has Changed Your Life
I don't think I've yet read a book that has changed my life, but I have read many that have inspired me in one way or another. In general, anything by Vonnegut or Sedaris. More specifically (and recently) The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman which captures a feeling of self-isolation quite well, and The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart which attempts to delve into the nuance of female friendship and how poisonous it can sometimes get (albeit over men which irks me but whatever.)

A Book That You Have Read More Than Once
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. What is it about unrequieted love?

A Book That Makes You Laugh
Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris

"There was a line for Santa and a line for the women's bathroom, and one woman, after asking me a dozen questions already, asked, "Which is the line for the women's bathroom?" I shouted that I thought it was the line with all the women in it. She said, "I'm going to have you fired."...Go ahead, be my guest. I'm wearing a green velvet costume; it doesn't
get any worse than this...I wanted to lean over and say, "I'm going to have you killed."

A Book That Made You Cry
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
What in your youth set the butterfly effect in motion up through your adulthood?

A Book You Wish You Had Written
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn 1. because it's my favorite and 2. because it's like no other book out there. I've
recommended it to a number of people, some of whom returned it unread. Whimps! I find this book to be an absolute amazing take on the relationship between parents and children. The physical setting and characters (freak show carnival people) mirror the twisted way in which family members can sometimes relate to one another. Recommended to me by none other than my beloved older brother, it is a fascinating and delightful/macabre read.

"Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they would fling us out of their arms in horrified revulsion....we need that warm adult stupidity....We make due with it rather than face alone the cavernous reaches of our skulls for which there is no remedy, no safety, no
comfort at all. We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness."

A Book You Are Currently Reading
Around The World In Eighty Days, Jules Verne
Nine Strange Stories (short story collection)
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Sylvia Plath
Thinking about re-reading Geek Love and Gatsby.

A Book You Have Been Meaning To Read
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
Papillion, Henri Charriere
And probably thirty other books I can't remember the titles of but when see in the book store scream, "I've always wanted to read this!!"