10BooksThatChangedMe

Soulless | Gail Carriger

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This is my Day 9 choice. I got way behind because I was preparing for #GenCon2018

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Joy0201

Play It As It Lays: A Novel | Joan Didion

Day 6 of the #10booksthatchangedme challenge. Play It As It Lays. Joan Didion is a master.

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Let the Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist

Day 5 of #10booksthatchangedme - Let the Right One In. All time favorite vampire book.

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As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner

Day four of #10booksthatchangedme
A whole lot of Faulkner in my life...

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J.K. Rowling

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This is my Day 8 choice.

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Joy0201

Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bront�

#10booksthatchangedme Challenge day 3! Jane Eyre. Ohhhhhh Jane. I have 8 different editions of this book.

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Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery

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This is my Day 7 choice.

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LibrarianRyan

Din� Bahan�: The Navajo Creation Story | Paul G. Zolbrod

#10booksthatchangedme Day 10

Last one. In college everyone had to take myth and culture. Most people hated this one professor. He smelled and was very strange and eccentric and was one of the best professors EVER. While all the other classes were studying Roman and Greek myth, our class was studying the myth of our selves. The myths of America. We had to recite falling leave, learn the history of baseball (& to this day o still know most the 👇🏻

LibrarianRyan Lyrics to Take me out to the ball park (most everyone only knows the chorus). We had to learn Us symbolism found on building and money and explore our own dreams). It was amazing. One of the things we had to read was part one of this book. It's not an easy read with the various Navajos words that look similar but once you have it down you are sucked in. I read the entire thing. Couldn't put it down. One of the most amazing creation stories EVER! 6y

LibrarianRyan Ps. The professor smelled because he ate garlic like an apple, lived in a tent off the grid, rarely showered and only wore shoes when he had to. He told us all this on the first day of class. It was his reasons to "Drop this class". I thought a lot of people did. We were in a room that seats 30 with 90 students, but after day 1 there was only 15 of us. The best part was Finals day. About 45+ people showed up to take the final. Oh boy did they?? 6y

LibrarianRyan Fail. The test was filling in words to random stanzas from Ball park, finishing the poem, drawing and accurate picture of the back of a $1 bill with its meaning, and what the different Navajos words from the creation story represented. When he handed out the test he announced that if you had been in class you passed and the test was just for GPA points, and if you had not been in class good luck, be prepared to fail. It was AWESOME. 6y

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ladym30 That is amazing! 6y

wanderinglynn That professor sounds like a person I‘d love to sit down & talk to! And what an interesting class. 👍🏻 6y

LibrarianRyan @wanderinglynn he still teaches there. As I said you smell him coming. He has a particular seat he loves in the library and a student worker is required to febreeze that seat every day. 6y

wanderinglynn 😂😂😂 That‘s even more awesome! If I were only independently wealthy, I‘d just go take all these amazing classes taught by these interesting people. 6y

TheBookgeekFrau I would have LOVED that class! 6y

Leftcoastzen Wow ,what an amazing story! Would love to have taken that class.Sounds like there is a good reason to sit by the window or in the back of the class. 6y

WritethebookAnniemae Super 😎 6y

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LibrarianRyan

Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10booksthatchangedme Day 9

This is my Dickens. This book made me realize I was a feminist. I HATE pretty much everything out it. The only thing worse is the admin Moore movie which we watched in class. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

ravenlee Have you seen the movie Easy A? 6y

LibrarianRyan @ravenlee yes. I love that movie. 6y

ravenlee Such a good movie! Your post made me think of the classroom scene with the girl who thinks Hester brought it all on herself. 😒 and how so many people read it that way. I reread it after seeing the movie and it was totally different than my first reading in high school. (edited) 6y

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LibrarianRyan

Lonesome Dove: A Novel | Larry McMurtry

#10booksthatchangedme Day 8

The movie is what actually changed in. Once again, in Alaska I had a teacher for social studies who would use well done mini series to help us understand our history/social studies lessons. Every Friday and all sub days we would watch 30-60 min of a historical mini series. The first was lonesome dove. Amazing. And when I found out it was a book, his only student to read it. Love it. My first "adult" book.

LibrarianRyan To this day I still love the mini series Lonesome Dove, Centennial, North and South. 6y

ladym30 Those mini series were fantastic and I always thought Lonesome Dove was just like the book. 6y

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