The
first of these books was Twilight. I
know there are some who may turn their noses up at such an unliterary choice,
but this book made me fall in love with reading again. I’d always loved reading but I was thoroughly
bored with grown-up books. More and more
often I was choosing to read magazines instead.
It had never occurred to me, until I had children of my own, that an
adult could still enjoy children and YA literature. I decided to read Twilight, not out of any
real interest in the subject, but to find out what all the fuss was about. I hadn’t read a teen love story since I was a
teen and I loved Twilight despite its flaws.
It reacquainted me with the girl I used to be, the one who believed in
true love and possibilities.
A
few of the other books I’ve wanted to reread immediately: The Changeover by Margaret Mahy, Howl’s
Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan and The Book
Thief by Marcus Zusak.
This
past week I read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It’s a book about kids with cancer. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you hug your loved ones tighter. You’ve got to love a book that can do all
that without being sappy and that’s why I’m reading it again.
Best
bit of The Fault in Our Stars: “That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus
said, and then glanced back at me. “It
demands to be felt.” – John Green.