Books

I'm almost twenty years old and in my short life time I have read hundreds of books. They're like crack to me. Once I get started on something good I just. can't. stop. However, out of all the books I've read the three that had the most impact on me were:


1. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein was my absolute favorite author as a kid. His writings inspired me to get creative and at a young age I started to doodle and write short stories as well as poetry thanks to him. The Giving Tree was such an influential book to me (and probably many others when they were young) because it was so simple that children could understand it and love it; his writing was effortless but still conveyed the strong message of selfless love and friendship.






2.  The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

I had to read this book in my seventh grade language arts class. I remember we started to read it as a class, but I got so sucked in I started reading faster and the spent all of lunch and all of after school reading until I finished it. And then I read it again. I had never read something like this before; the main event is murder but more importantly it is about right and wrong in society and everyone's socioeconomic differences and what we all have in common as human beings.

3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

I just recently read this book, unaware it was being made into a movie, and I think it was probably the best book I've ever read. It has so many twists and thrilling moments, as a reader you can't help but devour it in a matter of days. Gone Girl is the story of Nick and Amy whose marriage, like many,  is full of lies, malice, sex, betrayal, love, and two bedazzlingly different sides of a story.You never really know how everything is going to turn out until the very last page and it is epic.