Book Meme - Stolen from FB

Like many of you, I adore books and love to read. If I love a book I will read it over and over - I have been known to read 'The End', then turn back to page one and start again. If I love a book, I read the hell out of it. But I am a bibliophile's nightmare. I am no respecter of books - I treat them like whores at a gang bang. I crack spines, I dogear pages, I read while eating and spatter them with food; I take them into baths and expand them to twice their size. I highlight important or pertinent sentences and write in the margins. I am jealous and rarely loan books; I also caution friends to never loan me a book - if I really like it, you may not get it back.

You have only to look at my book collection to see my favourite, most loved books - they are the ones that look like they've been run over by a bus. The pristine books are either copies of my favourites (I often buy two and keep one safe - like my HP books, and kmhmd gave me two copies of Oldest Living Confederate etc as a gift, and one's autographed, so it never gets opened) or they are books that never get read past the first reading. I thank the book gods for Kindles - now I can read to my heart's content and no books are harmed in the process.

Meme Rules: Books (in no particular order) that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than few minutes and don't try to list the "right" or "great" works. These are books that I have read all throughout my life (I read Island of the Blue Dolphins as a pre-teen and it's still one of my favourites).

It also strikes me as interesting how many are told as biographies (*) and in first person.
( Books That Have Stayed With Me )