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Post: 77334527_1 created on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:27:31 +0000
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I'm looking for something to read. What has moved you?

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Post: 77334527_2 created on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:25:29 +0000
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I Am the Messenger, by Marcus Zuzak

As crazy as it sounds, every time I read this I come away feeling a little more... I don't know, hopeful I guess.
It reminds me that there is great beauty in imperfection, and that is a lesson that is easily forgotten in a world where everything has become so superficial.

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Post: 77334527_3 created on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:55:02 +0000
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In middle school, it was The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I was a lonely misunderstood kid, whose only real friends were the books in the library. This one in particular. I felt so much less alone when I read this.

In high school, it was Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. My best friend since 7th grade was always a very manipulative, selfish, childish person. I put up with our one-way friendship for too many years. The characters in this book were us, and they were the mirror that helped me stand up to her and move on from that unhealthy friendship.

In my first year of college it was both He's Just Not That Into You and It's Called a Breakup, Because It's Broken. My ex-fiance and I had been together since junior year. I was too scared of being alone to break things off. These books helped me see our relationship was all wrong and that being alone was better than being in a lonely relationship.
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Now, at the age of 21, it's Charmed Thirds by Megan McCafferty. The main character is my age by the end. The book covers her years of college and the summers in-between, as well as love, jobs, family, and realizing you have no idea what you're doing no matter how old you get.

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Post: 77334527_4 created on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:02:13 +0000
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Deadhouse Gates (2nd book of the Malazan series). A fist (general) and his small army has to cross a desert accompanying thousands of refugees and besieged by a renegade army. And they were on their own.

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Post: 77334527_5 created on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:27:09 +0000
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The Five People You Will Meet In Heaven... That book has both inspired me in my reading and encouraged me to start writing as well.

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Post: 77334527_6 created on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:06:49 +0000
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Once I have read this Fairytale book called "Fairy On Ice" . Wow , It Changed my life.
It made my me more creative! It had good details too

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Post: 77334527_7 created on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:47:36 +0000
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I'm a Sci-Fi fan, so anything by Issac Asimov. Also, Brave New World.

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Post: 77334527_8 created on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:02:29 +0000
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These novels move me:

1.) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
3.) The Stand by Stephen King
4.) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
5.) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
6.) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
7.) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8.) The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
9.) The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
10.) The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
11.) The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
12.) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13.) Persuasion by Jane Austen
14.) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15.) The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
16.) Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
17.) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
18.) Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers
19.) Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith
20.) The Giver by Lois Lowry

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Post: 77334527_9 created on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:06:42 +0000
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The Celestine Prophecy

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Post: 77334527_10 created on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:33:45 +0000
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I would have to say "Larry's Party" by a Canadian author. Even though it is about a man having a mid-life crisis (and I am not a man and no wheres near mid-life), I was an interesting read that really got you thinking. Hampton Court Palace & it's world famous hedge maze in London, England was a huge symbol for his life in this book. I even got to go there and try out the maze (finding the centre!) a couple of years ago.

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Post: 77334527_11 created on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:55:40 +0000
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Ishmael and the Tao of Pooh when I was 14.

Later on, reading about the stupidity and greed in the world with evidence in Banana and Righteous Porkchop.

All 4 make me wanna smack people and make them be better.

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Post: 77334527_12 created on Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:29:14 +0000
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Cage of stars

I read it when I was ten and it really changed my views on forgiving people, even when they have done the worst of deeds. Moving on and accepting things also.

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Post: 77334527_13 created on Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:55 +0000
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These ones are memoirs and such -
Thin by Lauren Greenfield
Hunger by Crystal Renn
Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent
Why We Suck by Denis Leary

These are fiction -
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

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Post: 77334527_14 created on Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:07:14 +0000
Posted: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:07:14 +0000

FOSTER THE PEOPLE

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Nice Recovery by Susan Juby

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Post: 77334527_15 created on Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:39:15 +0000
Posted: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:39:15 +0000

the perks of being a wallflower:
i could relate to it and i read it twice in middle school.

invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk:
i've read this book five times and it never gets old. it's absolutely beautiful.

the lovely bones:
saddest book i've EVER read.

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