Day 4 - Your Favorite Book

I think I like Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen best. Maybe it's because I find psychology and the human mind so interesting, or maybe because I think it's incredibly well-written, especially considering that it deals with a topic that most readers won't understand first-hand. But that's the beauty of it. Susanna Kaysen describes what it's like to be crazy, and she does it clearly while still being funny and not too depressing.

Also, fun fact: Susanna Kaysen went to Commonwealth, a private school in Boston where one of my friends went for a year.

Girl, Interrupted was also made into a movie with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. I didn't like the movie as much because you can't reallyget a sense of Kaysen's thought process when you're only seeing the plot. Also there are needles, and I hate needles.

Honorable mentions: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, and Second Glance by Jodi Picoult