Got tagged by Bob.  This is a hard one, as I feel like I’m snubbing about a zillion books by putting any single title down.  Hello, books?  All the ones I’ve read and that could just as easily be listed here?  I’m sorry.  Maybe I’ll remember you for next time.

1. One book that changed my life:  Faith Beyond Resentment, by James Alison
2. One book I’ve read more than once:  The Alchemist, by Paulo Ceulho
3. One book I’d want on a desert island:  It’s a toss up between a how-to book on raft making, and one about surviving on a desert island.
4. One book that made me laugh:  Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
5. One book that made me cry:  A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken
6. One book I wish had been written:  Something else with mercy in the title.  No.  Um…  Something about what it would be like to be me between the ages of 20 and 30.  I think I would have freaked out a hundred times less if I would have known that things wouldn’t be so bad forever.
7. One book I wish had never been written:  Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (another hypothetical example of how to freak me out far less)
8. One book I’m currently reading:  The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
9. One book I’ve been meaning to read:  The End of Faith, by Sam Harris
10. One book I’d like to write:  You mean publish?  Because that’s really what I want to happen with this thing.  It’s a novel about two teenagers losing their religion while trying to save their souls.

And for tagging…hmm….how about Seeker and Cindy?

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