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My Top Ten Books Read in High School-WHAT DID YOU READ IN HIGH SCHOOL that made an impact on you?
My Top Ten Books Read in High School
(Plus the start of it all in grade school)
- And Then there Were None-Christie
- The Bad Seed-March
- Arsenic and Old Lace-Kesselring
- Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare
- Macbeth-Shakespeare
- The Odyssey-Homer
- The Pearl-Steinbeck
- Little House on the Prairie-Wilder
- The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
- Taming of the Shrew-Shakespeare
How did they impact me? Agatha Christie inspired me to write and to be original and deceptive and crazy and interesting. The Bad Seed and Arsenic and Old Lace (from Theatre class) were absolute foundations for drama and solving a good mystery should be the spice of life with every day you live. Shakespeare is just plain fun to read aloud, especially with exaggerated dramatic effect. The Odyssey makes me want to walk out the front door and spontaneously go anywhere. (My husband and I did often before children.) The Pearl made me appreciate people for who they are and love that we are all different. Jay Gatsby and Romeo make a young girl swoon and look forward to one day falling in love. And lastly, The Little House on the Prairie was the first chapter book I ever read. Thank you Ms. Winner, my second grade teacher from Mesquite, Texas, Range Elementary.
Top Three New Years Resolutions-or maybe not! #6
- Dress up as a clown and pretend to promote something on the side of the road–Do you know how many fake organizations there are out there, people?
- Bake a cake–Not! Did you know that a cake mix, mixed with oil and eggs makes cookies instead? And only a dollar!
- Eat monkey brains–Did you know it could actually hurt you, they (Do not know who THEY are, but who cares) say?
New Years Resolutions I don’t intend to keep #4
- Read War and Peace
- Buy a floor length fur coat like my grandma owned
- Watch Polar Express eleven times like we did last year-no! won’t happen
- Eat a random animal that someone calls a delicacy
- Ride in a tank with the cover on because someone said it would be fun
- Dress up like Tinkerbell and go to Disney World
- Fly my drone in the teacher’s classroom who keeps a flyswatter on her desk at all times–it happens, I promise!