Books

Hello all!

One of my favorite things to do is to find a good book that I can sink my teeth into. (Preferably when I can be curled up in a chair with sun shining on it, covered in a blanket, and a warm cup of hot apple cider with me.)

I do these huge splurges where I'll literally read, like, a dozen of one genre and then read another dozen from a different genre. (Unfortunately I have very little time to read during the school year because I have homework or something to do. Lame.) I reserve a bunch of books at the library and just READ! Sit on the couch and read, drive in the car and read (no, not at the same time), go work out and read, fall asleep while reading. It's awesome.

I haven't really had a time to read because I've been crazy busy with speech for the past seven months, so this is really the first time that I've had the time to read for fun. (My lists are kind of lacking because it's been too long since I had the chance to read.)

For about the past two years I've been going back and forth between memoirs/autobiographies and (Young Adult) Fiction. When I read non-fiction books, I really like to take something away from what I read; whether that is knowledge, opinion, or pain. It's so dorky to say, but I want to be a different person from when I opened the book to when I closed it. And (because I know you are curious) here is a list of some of my favorite non-fiction books:

• Columbine by Dave Cullen 
• The Best Advice I Ever Got by Katie Couric 
• Bossypants by Tina Fey 
• Melissa Explains It All by Melissa Joan Hart 
• The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker 
• Footprints of Courage by Jan Jenkins 

Now, because I know that you are all curious, here is a list of some of my favorite fiction books. (A lot of these books are stereotypical teenage girl books, so I apologize in advance.)

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
• Safe Haven by Nicolas Sparks 
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 
• Divergent by Veronica Roth 
• Gallagher Girl series by Ally Carter 
• Water for Elephants 
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 

So that's what I read for fun. I have a huge stack of books at my house that I need to read (a mixture of book fiction and non-fiction, so this'll be interesting. (So if you haven't figured this out, my mind works a little differently than everyone else's. I'm fine reading more than one book at a time, but if they're two different genres, then I struggle a little bit...I don't know, it's weird.)) Anyway, if you have any book suggestions, hit me up. I love a good book.

And I'm gonna need some other books to read because tomorrow I get my wisdom teeth pulled. (Nice.) And I need more books to read. Wish me luck.

Love,

Katie