Book Challenge 2

I nearly forgot about my blog again.
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4.  Favourite book of your favourite series
In the Chemical Garden Trilogy, by Lauren DeStefano, my favourite chapters would have to be those that are set in the 'twisted' carnival in book two - Fever.  Reading it made me feel like I was in a hazy dreamy nightmare.  To me it was a sad, grotesque, and superficially beautiful place.

5.  A book that makes you happy
 ummm, every book i've ever read.

6. A book that makes you sad.
There's two, and they can't compete.
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
This book actually has me quite happy at the start.  Then I'm either scared or laughing through most of it.  It is considered a 'children's book', and it is so much simpler compared to the LOTR trilogy, but I feel so strongly about the end!  The battle at the end is so dramatic, and what happens to Bilbo and the rest of the company is quite heartbreaking.  My heart actually broke.  The farewell to me was so upsetting.  In the pages describing Bilbo's journey back, I couldn't help but feel depressed.  I knew from the start he was going to return and not be the same person again (like when anyone travels to a completely different place for the first time and has life-changing experiences), but I didn't expect to get such a strong sense of it by reading the hobbit. Of course I became happy again when Frodo etc was mentioned and the first few pages of FOTR was included.

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
When such an emotionally powerful book is read to you when you're ten, over weeks with a class of close friends and the best teacher ever, and that teacher cries as she reads certain dialogue, it's a book that will stick with you for life.  I read it myself five years later and loved it even more.  It's a beautiful book that I would recommend to everyone.