Books for My Younger Self

Hello! It’s Tuesday again, so it’s time again for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today we’re going to talk about “Books for My Younger Self.” What were books you would have liked to have seen when you were much younger? I don’t really think about this one a lot, so this one might be a challenge. But I’m going to try anyway.

My boy loves Lauren Magaziner. She’s his favorite author; in fact, he likes Marie Lu books too, and calls her “the Lauren Magaziner of YA.” I think I would have loved her Case Closed books. We just convinced our library to buy Case Closed 3: Haunting at the Hotel, so I’m sure he’s going to be happy to read that.

P Is for Pterodactyl is a picture book, but I find it amusing even now. I probably would have liked it when I was younger also.

My daughter was a huge Percy Jackson reader when she was younger. I think she read all of this first series. I have never read them, however. I think I would have liked them though, because I like mythology and enjoyed reading myths in middle school.

Spirit Animals is another series I haven’t read, but my boy likes a lot. Okay, I did read the last book in the series because Marie Lu wrote it, but I haven’t read any of the other books. I’ve thought about reading the whole series, but there’s a lot of other books that take priority.

I worked at a day care for a couple years when my daughter was little, and I thought Click, Clack, Moo was a cute book. I’m sure that I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I had been closer to 4 years old.

I haven’t read The Bridge yet (although I’d like to). This is one of those books that would be good for someone going through a dark time. It tells the story of two people who intend on jumping off the George Washington bridge. What happens if either one of them jumps, what happens if they both jump, what happens if neither jump. Assuming that the world doesn’t become a better place when they both jump (that would be pretty toxic), I’m guessing that this book will be a great read.

I can’t think of any other books that I would send to my younger self (as soon as I see all the other posts I’ll probably come up with more), however, if we’re going to actually send books back in time to our younger selves, I’d send back The Complete Book of the Olympics (2012 Edition). I’d take my butt down to Vegas and make some money. Olympics betting was made illegal in 2001, even in Vegas, but I’d have a small window to make some money.

And while we’re at it, I’ll make a killing off the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

That’s all I have for today! This week was harder than I thought it would be. What did you come up with? Hopefully you had some better ideas than I did.

Next week is a freebie week having something to do with book covers. I don’t know what I’m going to write about yet, but I’m sure I can come up with 10 next time. See you then!