I love books! When I was little, I always said I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. English and art were my favorite subjects in school, and I was constantly writing and illustrating stories. After college, I went to grad school and focused on literature with images (graphic novels, books with photos, etc.). Needles to say, I've spent most of my life reading, studying, and talking about books. More recently, I decided to become a high school English teacher. I'm excited that I'll get to read for a living and discuss literature every single day. I especially love young adult literature, multicultural literature, women's literature, graphic novels, and books with images.
I often blog about the books I am reading, but here's a little list of some of my favorite books:
The Perks of Being a WallflowerWide Sargasso Sea
Survival in Auschwitz
Passing
Seventeen Syllables
Maus
Persepolis
The Emigrants
A Place to Stand
Speak Memory
Mrs. Dalloway
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
The Hunger Games
In Cold Blood
Dogeaters
Push
Invisible Man
My friends and I have a book club blog, which you can check out here.
Some Favorite Authors:
Sylvia Plath
Vladimir Nobokov
Jessica Hagedorn
Virginia Woolf
Jean Rhys
W.G. Sebald
James Ellroy
Toni Morrison
Pablo Neruda
Jim Thompson
Nella Larsen
Flannery O'Connor
Sherman Alexie
Roald Dahl
*Images of authors from right to left and top to bottom: Truman Capote, Marjane Satrapi, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Pablo Neruda, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Ellroy, Jean Rhys, Vladimir Nabokov.
Love everything about this post!! I'm the same way. Book fiend and I'm a writer. Hope to be published one day.
ReplyDeleteMy process can be found here: http://thewrittenword-jlr.blogspot.com/
You're going to make an excellent high school english teacher (I'm also going to be a teacher as well!)