The Club Dumas

Lucas Corso...Did I know love until then? This book had been in my possession for years and years. I remember that Oliver from B. Dalton loved this book and we talked about it often. So I bought it for Joe years ago. Joe didn't like it too much. So I wasn't really psyched to try it...but something made me go for it.
Saying that this book helped shape the next two years of my life is an understatement. It helped shape what I read, who I love, and what I live for-the written word.
Lucas Corso. That name! I loved him so much. He is my Harry Potter, he is my Emma. He is my Inferno and he is my Romeo. He is everything I ever wanted in a book character. Profound, clumsly. Foolishly in love. I ADORE the tiniest insignificant details in this book. In one paragraph, the phone rings while Corso is in bed. In reaching out to answer it, he drops his glasses. That moved me beyond words. The smallest thing and yet so real.
I love that Lucas went to great lengths to protect his books but smoked around them without hesistation.
I love that he couldn't sleep at night and I loved that he liked to drink a lot. He had SO many imperfections and he was so realistic. And that makes him my favourite book character ever.
So how does this book shape my life? A few of my friends read this one. Some fell for it as hard as I did, some with the romance of the book world and some with the overall charm. So we were all connected. We were the Club Dumas. Even now, we talk about it. Even now we are connected...we always will be. <3

A Dirty Job

Oh, Christoper Moore. You make me laugh. Wow, I remember reading this book at the same time as Dustin!!!!
Though this book was great and funny and charming, it wasn't as great as Lamb, because how many people out there are lucky enough to have best friends named Biff?

The Neverending Story

It was time to re-read a childhood favourite. This book will always be very dear to me. A comfort read.

A Total Waste of Make-Up

I tried to read and I tried to read and I tried to read to no avail. It took me 6 months to finally complete a book after I started BN, and this was the one. I had this book and I swore myself off of chick literature, but hey, it was about Los Angeles and oh how I missed home. Oh how I missed it so. And this book filled that void. :)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

I read 4 books in 2005 guys. 4.
This one I re-read on a trip to California. :) I read it planning on reading all the other books in the series but I never got around to them. :( I was also sad because I didn't have too many other books with me on the plane. :(
After I got back I focused on closing the store down. The clearance was starting. The final weeks were coming to and end. I didn't actually finish a book until 7 months later.
Not only was it a new job, it was also a new house, and Joe had started his new career. Everything was SO new.
I tried to read but I couldn't get into anything, at all.
Anyway, this is the last B. Dalton Post.
Oh, those days are missed. But I do have to say that from here on out, none of the books that appear on this list has been a waste of time. They're all me. 100 % me. I stopped reading recommendations. Instead, I read friends favourite books. Books that friends were passionate about. Not because I wanted to read a good book, but because I wanted to know why they were passionate about the author or book. So it made me really happy to finally read On the Road. Even though I didn't like it, I learned a lot about Natacia and it makes me happy. :) So..yeah. Welcome to B&N Folks.

The Kite Runner

Oh, Kite Runner. This book is SO incredibly written. The storytelling takes my breath away!
This was also one of the best book club meetings we ever had. I say book club but we were all so close and we all loved to read...so it was just a meeting of friends. We had the best afghanistan food and i was the only one brave enough to drink the rose water. It was delicious.
The book conversation was also incredibly interesting. Sandra and I had very strong cultures and we were raised with that culture as a back bone. And we were the only ones who agreed that the main character in this book was hard to forgive. We didn't sympathize with him. It was really interesting!
The book, though, was really hard for me to read. I mean...it was SO SO SO SAD. It was SO good but so OVERWHELMINGLY sad. I could never recommend this one off the bat because of the feelings it evokes..so powerful. If someone asks about it though, I do always say that the storytelling is brilliant.

The Reading Group

Ok, wow. This book was pretty amazing. It was a more than chick literature. It was a story about how all these woman who know each other, but just barely, form a reading group and as they discuss the books, they find out so much more about themselves and each other. I highly recommended this one to anyone I come across who dig books like this.