From: Edward T. Sullivan <sully>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:00:07 -0400 (EDT)

I don't think I can say it changed my life but the first book I remember really being nuts about is Thomas Rockwell's How To Eat Fried Worms. Maybe it was the first time I realized how totally entertaining reading could be. I thought that book was the funniest thing ever written and I read it over and over and over again. Now I recommend it to all my students when they ask for a funny story and I have not had one come back disappointed.

As a teenager, I somehow managed to miss out on young adult literature. That's something I got hooked on in library school. The Catcher in the Rye was a novel that resonated with me in high school, as it still does with so many teens today. Albert Camus's The Stranger also really spoke to me. It's really a perfect book for teens. There is no greater existential absurdity than adolescence.


Ed Sullivan, M.S.L.S. 103 Oneida Lane Oak Ridge, TN, 37830

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
                  -John Lennon-
Received on Mon 22 May 2006 05:00:07 PM CDT