#day-daybreaks

I was tagged by @imnotnormalimextraordinary (thanks!!)

Rules: List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag 10 friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

1) The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (I know it’s peak 90s Duchovny of me but this book changed my perspective on what it even means to be alive and I chin-handsed my way through every pretentious-ass reference The X-Files made to it)

2) Bossypants — Tina Fey (that section on improv’s life lessons!)

3) Mercier and Camier — Samuel Beckett (I read this when I was studying abroad in Ireland and I didn’t even like it?? But we had such good class discussions on it that it wound up shaping my perspective on language and silence and what it is to respect others’ experiences.)

4) The Harry Potter series — JK Rowling (I didn’t read the HP series until after college. I cried a lot, and not just because one of the kids I worked with in Alaska spoiled the timing of Dumbledore’s death.)

5) Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (“But I don’t want comfort”)

6) To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf (It’s gorgeous and weird and it’s all about art and time and I’m into it)

7) New and Selected Poems — Mary Oliver (I know it's not a novel)

8) The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Haaaave you read “The Misfit”?)

9) The Last of the Really Great Whangoodles — Julie Andrews Edwards (I don’t remember another book that made me, as a kid, more aware of my own childhood and how fleeting and important it was)

10) The Phantom Tollbooth — Norton Juster (In retrospect, it’s like Doctor Who meets wordplay. Of course I loved it)