#theclassicreader

Thanks for tagging me, theeverlastingreader!

(P.S. Not sure why I didn’t see this until now, a month later…)

I think this is great for tumblr :) List in your status 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes and do not think too hard. They do not have to be the ‘right’ books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way. Tag 5 friends including me so I can see your list.

1. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway 
2. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 
3. Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket 
4. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 
5. The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling 6. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood 
7. Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson 
8. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 
9. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle 
10. Eragon, Christopher Paolini

I tag theclassicreader, the-masked-writer, alittlebookthief, adrateia, books-booksandmorebooks

lol, I listened to the audiobook which was probably why it was easy to get through.

I don't know what it is, maybe the style of writing? I just have this simmering hatred for all of the characters and everything they do. 

9. Put your music player of choice on shuffle and list the first 3 songs

I Need It - Molotov Jukebox (which has Tonks/Osha in it which makes it triple the awesome) 

Bye Bye Bye - Plants and Animals 

The Autumn Carnival - The Dandy Warhols 

21. If you could study anything, what would it be?

Psychology. Which I'm already studying so goodie for me! But I also really want to study another language but I'm too terrified of speaking exams to actually do it at uni. 

23. If you could spend a week anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

Spain!

freshly baked bread

Turkish coffee 

melted chocolate

hyacinths 

11: What is your favorite quote from a book?

"And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever." from Anna Karenina

29: A book that makes you feel comforted?

Reading any of the Harry Potter books make me feel happy, even when my life might be a little crazy

4: Top 7 book characters.

definitely a tough one…in no particular order:

Hermione Granger

Jay Gatsby

Meggie Folchart (from Inkheart)

Violet Baudelaire (from A Series of Unfortunate Events)

James Stevens (from The Remains of the Day)

Francie Nolan (from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

Lyra Belacqua (from The Golden Compass)

When I was in Italy I read Dante’s Inferno!