I was tagged to do this by Sam , so here goes...

One book that changed your life?
I can't think of one book in particular -- I have always been a reader...

It started with Nancy Drew and Judy Blume books {RIP Dribbles}, Encyclopedia Brown, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Little Women, Choose Your Own Adventures, Chronicles of Narnia {Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the best one} ... to the novels read in high school like, The Old Man and the Sea, Of Mice and Men, Ordinary People, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, 1984 -- to popular literature like Bridget Jones, High Fidelity, About a Boy -- Jane Austen -- chick lit -- then when I became a teacher I started reading a lot of timeless/ageless lit -- Oh the Places You Will Go, The Giving Tree, Ella Enchanted, A Wrinkle in Time, Harry Potter, The Giver, The Bread Winner -- I can go on and on.... I heart books.

One book you have read more than once?
Here are 2:

1) Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen

Ok - I am a huge nerd, I will admit to reading this novel over and over and then on top of that...oodles and oodles of adaptations of it online. One of my most beloved heroines.

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2) Bridget Jones's Diary -- by Helen Fielding
It just solidified my belief that no woman is perfect. Bridget personifies what I like to think of as a "normal" woman. We all have fears, flaws, embarrassing moments...

Sunday 1 January
9st 3 (but post-Christmas), alcohol units 14 (but effectively covers 2 days as 4 hours of party was on New Year's Eve), cigarettes 22, calories 5,424

One book you would want on a desert island?
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Lord of the Flies - William Golding

just in case I a) need survival skills b) find myself on a raft with a tiger c) find out I am not alone

One book that made you laugh?
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby and Bridget Jones's Diary -- see above

One book that made you cry?
Rilla Of Ingleside -- L.M. Montgomery

If you have ever read the sequels to Anne of Green Gables -- this is book 8. I have read this book so often I have had to replace it because the pages were falling out. My new copy doesn't match my very worn out set of Anne books - grrr. It never fails to make me sob uncontrollably.

One book you wish had never been written?
Can't think of one...

One book you are currently reading?
I am currently reading: Rachel's Holiday -- by Marian Keyes

I've read it before but Neil insists that if I am going to fork out $ for books [instead of using a library], I must re-read the small library I currently own. It is the tale of Rachel Walsh, an extremely immature drug addict [she would call her problem 'recreational drug use'] who ends up in a rehab centre. Not that she is overly worried - she thinks it will be like going to a spa. Essentially it is the humorous tale of one messed up girl and how she gets her life back in order. A very easy read.

One book you have been meaning to read?
Under the Tuscan Sun -- Frances Mayes

The movie is my all time favourite feel good/feel better about yourself movie. I can watch it over and over. I have been told that the novel is very very different from the film, but I'd still like to read it one day.

Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

I have started reading this novel a handful of times and have always lost interest part way in -- one day I will conquer this book!

I will tag (the only people I know that might actually do it!)
Morphy
Tim