I have always been a big reader and would quite happily swop TV for a book. Waterstones have recently asked ‘Which Book Made You?’
It got me thinking, Did they mean my favourite? The one that I can’t stop thinking about years after I’ve finished reading? There were a few possible answers for me.
When I started thinking about it, many titles flashed through – Ralph’s Party by Lisa Jewell, Where Rainbow’s End by Cecelia Ahern, The Velveteen Rabbit, Harry Potter, The Malory Towers and Sweet Valley High books (one’s I read avidly when I was a teenager.) These are the ones I can think of at this moment.
However, the book that keeps coming back to me is The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood. It was recommended to me by my sister. I was sixteen and it made such an impact on me that I still think about it now. I was at an impressional age and many times, this book surprised me, shocked me and made me cry. I can even remember the song I was listening to a lot as I read it almost sixteen years ago.
So, which book made you and why?
(If you would like to take park in The Book That Made Me campaign being run by Waterstones, click here.)
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