30 Day Book Challenge - All in One Sitting.

Day 1- Favorite Book - Hmmm...so many....I think I would have to say Whale Talk  by Chris Crutcher. You should read it, it's thoroughly awesome. Gotta love the underdogs.


Day 2- Least Favorite Book - Any book I'm forced to read. I seriously have a thing...a 'reading rebellion' we'll say...where if you force me to read a book it instantly becomes one thousand times less interesting. 


Day 3 - A Book That Completely Surprised You - Memoirs of a Geisha  by Arthur Golden. Not my usual tyoe of book, but it was utterly riveting.


Day 4 - A Book That Reminds You of Home - My little Italian for Travellers book. It reminds me of my extended family.


Day 5 - A Non-fiction Book That You Actually Enjoyed - Hey, I like non-fiction! In fact, I've been on kind of a non-fiction kick since about senior year of high school. I especially like non-fiction books such as Freakonomics, Blink, and Predictably Irrational that explore why we behave like we do.


Day 6- A Book That Makes You Cry - I am not ashamed to admit that I bawled like a baby at the end of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult


Day 7- A Book That's Hard to Read - Huck Finn was difficult because of the dialect...I believe I read it aloud to myself, much to my parent's and sibling's chagrin.


Day 8- An Unpopular Book You Think Should Be a Best-Seller - Whale Talk  by Chris Crutcher. Seriously, read it. Then read all the rest of the stuff he wrote. It's friggin fabulous.


Day 9- A Book You've Read More Than Once - I don't like reading books more than once...


Day 10 - The First Novel You Remember Reading - I remember exhausting entire classroom bookshelves and entire sections of the library in Elementary School, but I don't remember many specific books from that time.


Day 11- The Book That Made You Fall in Love With Reading - Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. I freaking loved that book, and low and behold once I get older and grow out of that obsession, there's two more books. Sadly, I have yet to read them.


Day 12- An Emotionally Draining Book - Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher


Day 13- Favorite Childhood Book - If we're talking book that I had read to me that would be Friend Dog, but my favorite book I read to myself as a child would be Inkheart, hands down.


Day 14- Book That Should Be On The HS/ College Required Reading List - As stated above, I hate required reading.


Day 15 - Favorite Book Dealing with Foreign Culture - Nickle and Dimed  by Barbara Ehrenreich taught me that poverty is a different culture.


Day 16- Favorite Book Turned Movie - I have yet to find an instance where a movie version of a book has not made me at least slightly angry.


Day 17- Book Turned Movie and Completely Desecrated - All.


Day 18- Book That You Can't Find On Shelves Anymore That You Love - Hmmm...well, I can't find my copy of Harry Potter 7, but I don't think that counts...


Day 19- A Book That Changed Your Mind About a Particular Subject (Non-fiction) - Nickle and Dimed  changed my view on poverty and how much help we should be giving those living under the poverty line.


Day 20-A Book You Would Recommend to an Ignorant/Racist/Closed-minded Person - Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe will change your mind about the people who are living with or have died of AIDS real fast.

Day 21-A Guilty Pleasure Book - Don't have one

Day 22-Favorite Series - Artemis Fowl, closely followed by the Harry Potter Series, closely followed by the Series of Unfortunate Events

Day 23- Favorite Romance Novel - Don't have one

Day 24 - A Book You Later Found Out the Author Lied About - N/A

Day 25-Favorite Autobiographical/Biographical book - Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner

Day 26-A Book You Wish Would Be Written - My reading list is so long as it is...

Day 27- A Book You Would Write If You Had All the Resources - Probably something non-fiction about children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Day 28- A Book You Wish You Never Read - Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd. This is why you don't judge books based on their covers. This book had a picture of a monkey and a picture of a wedge of cheese on the cover...so naturally I picked it up. Worst book ever.

Day 29- An Author You Completely Hate/ Won't Read - Stephanie Meyer...I don't see vampires ever being a thing for me...I went through that weird fantasy genre stage in Middle School and I don't think I wanna go back.

Day 30- The 'I Will Read Everything Written By This Author' Author - Dan Brown. I'm sorry if that makes me a bad Catholic :)