Writer's Block: Desert island (original) (raw)

1. Bridge to Terabithia - Not in a good way. This was when I learned that books can betray you. You know when you're a kid, and you're reading a scary part, but you know everyone's going to be okay because that's how these things work? This was the book that ruined it for me. Based on the back cover, I thought the girl was going to move away. I didn't know people in books could die, or at least main characters. I guess I knew grandmothers and dogs died in books, but you knew that was coming. (The Babysitter's club book where Claudia's grandmother dies? I knew that was coming. If Claudia had died I'd probably still be in therapy.)

2. A Ring of Endless Light - which is about a teenage girl who moves from a big city to a small town to take care of her dying grandfather. Which I read when we moved f to help my grandfather take care of my dying grandmother, and then my grandfather died the day Dad and I got there. It helped a little.

3. I have trouble with a third. There's books I've loved, and books I've hated, and the SAS programming manual technically changed my life, but...