My Favourite Read List

One of my girlfriends has spurred me on to write this list, as she has just reacquainted herself with the joy of reading after taking a break from it for a while ... being the Mom of a toddler can do that sometime. WELCOME BACK KIM!!

As most of you, my loving 3 readers know, I am an AVID reader ... fervent actually. When I was working at Chapters (all those years ago) I was in heaven ... I love the feel and texture of the pages, the sound of the binding when it snaps after you've just cracked open the pages for the first time, the cover art or even lack there of ... and of course the stories. I love them all. I am a huge fan of non-fiction and you can always find me in the Biography or the Social and Cultural Studies section, browsing the shelves.

It was my Mother Jennifer, a writer now herself , who started me on my journey with the written word. Bedtime stories were one of my favourite times as a child. My Mom would read to me with such passion and love that it is no surprise that that same enjoyment was embedded in her young daughter. The Chronicles of Narnia, Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs, Jillian Jiggs, The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Balloon Tree, The Queen Who Stole the Sky, The Avocado Baby, The Folk of the Faraway Tree and The Secret of Spiggy Holes were my favourites. I secretly thought Jillian and I were long lost sisters ...

In first grade we had a book club, the Snuggle Up and Read Club, with the premise being that each night we had to make the time to snuggle up and sit quietly with our parents and read. Once the book was completed, it was recorded on the special Snuggle Up and Read Record Sheet. Once the sheet was full we got a sticker ... oh those magical grade one stickers and all they meant to us 6 year-olds! That club and my wonderful grade one teacher Mrs. MacLean made my love of books even stronger.

Those were some of the moments and times that helped to mould me into the reader and lover of books that I am today. I ready each and every day. I read on the bus to and from work, I read on my lunch break, I read while waiting for my coffee, I read in the Dr and Dentist office, I read before bed and while in bed. I find it to be both intriguing and relaxing. It’s entertaining and educating. It is exercise for the mind and can take you places and make you feel things that you never thought a book could.

I encourage everyone to pick up a book, a magazine, a newspaper, SOMETHING, just get reading.

So here's the start of my list of Favourite Reads. It will be an ongoing list as I have a rather large library to peruse and choose from and DAMN, there a lot of good ones!

If anyone reads, or has read any of these, let me know what your thoughts.

Enjoy!

Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women - Simon Doonan
Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
The Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto - Chuck Klosterman
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again - Julia Phillips
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Which Lie Did I Tell? - William Goldman
American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
Sonic Cool: The Life and Death of Rock & Roll - Joe Harrington
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Trip - Tom James Wolfe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - Peter Biskind
The Rebel Sell - Joseph Heath
All Families Are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland
Scars of Sweet Paradise: the Life and Times of Janis Joplin - Alice Echols
The Diary Of A Young Girl - Anne Frank
Somebody To Love? A Rock And Roll Memoir - Grace Slick
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal - Ian Christe
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota - Chuck Klosterman
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

To be continued ....