One might say I’m really dropping the ball on this. But I’m just gonna keep rolling with it and get through all the damn prompts. Ideally more consistently, and daily, after today.
In the interest of keeping up on my blog, I’m shifting this from Facebook to here. Plus, these are actually fun prompts that I should be posting over here anyway.
#8 – A book you love and one you didn’t.
Well hmmmm. That’s a SUPER hard one.
*comes back after putting away laundry for 10 minutes. *
Damn. Seriously, this is tough.
I can tell you for sure the book that is most disliked on my end was a book called “The Girl in the Box” by Ouida Sebestyen.
It has traumatized me since I was a teenager. In fact, I didn’t even finish the book. Most who know me, know that:
1) I ALWAYS finish a book, no matter how long it takes.
2) I never read the ending first.
This one was so depressing, for pages and pages, that I had to skip to the end to see if it ever ended. It didn’t. There was no resolution. The whole book was going to be torturous to read and there was no end in sight. So I turned the book back into the library, forever haunted by the knowledge that this whole book was about a girl who got kidnapped and was never rescued. She was left abandoned in a box and still alive at the end of the book. I will never read another book by this author, no matter how brilliant it is deemed to be.
So now I have to pick one that I love…..hmmmmm…I can’t pick just one favourite. I’ve mentioned some of my other favourite books in a previous prompt, so I’ll add something new here. 
“Rebecca” by Daphne DuMaurier.
I read this first when I was a teenager. It was such a haunting book, with all of the plot twists, intrigue and romance you would imagine.
DuMaurier’s style of writing inspires visions of rich, beautiful images, haunting memories and sleek sophisticated characters. The movie was great, but the book was better. Truly one of those books that stands out in my mind as I think back. It inspired me to read her other books which I thoroughly enjoyed also.
So there you have it.
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