Because Reading is Fundamental

23. A picture of your favorite book

 

I have several favorite books.

 

The ones you read over and over again. They range from the classics, like Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen's amazing social satire!) to To Kill a Mockingbird (social consciousness through the eyes of innocence) to modern fare such as The Know-It-All (I'm going to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and tell you about it in amusing anecdotes!) and Confederates in the Attic (which sparked my love of travel literature and is also a great study of the perception of the Civil War in modern southern society, from a non-southern perspective). And then there's Cheaper by the Dozen (I haven't seen the movie and have no intention because the book is amazing, written about the 1920s, and has this woman as the mother. True story, man http://www.slate.com/id/2094243/).

 

I don't generally read fiction, although there are two works of fiction on this list. I read them in intermediate high school and they have stuck with me. Now I read tend to read books by travel writers and historians, dreaming of the day when I will write some great book that only nerds like me will read :-)