Thursday, December 18, 2008

Booking Treats




Thursdays are fun thanks to Deb at: http://btt2.wordpress.com/

What is the best book you ever bought for yourself?

Given I majored in English, I bought a lot of books in college, though most of them were by male authors. When I bought Kate Chopin's The Awakening for my American Lit. class, I thought I had died and gone to heaven; finally, a novel by a woman I could relate to. Immediately, I checked out both volumes of her short stories from the University Library and wrote a paper which I would later give to my mother for Christmas. (It may be the best Christmas present I've ever given too!) Find more here: http://www.katechopin.org/

And, why? What made it the best? What made it so special?

Kate Chopin explored edges of her life and of being a woman at the turn of the century that spoke to this young college student in 1983! It's one of the only books I did not re-sell at the campus bookstore (along with the huge volume of Shakespeare's Complete Works that I've schlepped around all these years.)

5 comments:

  1. Oh Lord, how could you possibly choose the best book you ever bought? I'll have to think long and hard about that one.

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  2. Just wanted to "bump fists" with you on the Harry Potter thing!

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  3. Back atchya, NoBS! Thanks for leaving your comment!

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  4. I read The Awakening fairly recently. I loved it.

    Here are my BTT posts:

    Booking through treat

    Booking through generosity

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Awe, go on! Throw me a bone here!