a book that made you cry: I don’t think one has yet. The closest would probably be Powerless, Tim Dlugos.
a book that scared you: House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski.
a book that made you laugh: What Narcissism Means to Me, Tony Hoagland.
a book that disgusted you: Discipline & Punish, Michel Foucault.
a book you loved in elementary school: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprint, Donald J. Sobol; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Judi & Ron Barrett; The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport, Laura Lee Hope; A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle.
a book you loved in middle school: The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin; Many Waters, Madeleine L’Engle.
a book you loved in high school: A is for Alibi, Sue Grafton; The Pelican Brief, John Grisham; Brave New World, Aldous Huxley.
a book you hated in high school: The Witching Hour, Anne Rice.
a book you loved in college: MAUS, Art Spiegelman; The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara; The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.
a book that challenged your identity: I don’t know.
a series that you love: Sue Grafton’s alphabet mysteries. I’m not sorry.
your favorite horror book: House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski.
your favorite science fiction book: Madeleine L’Engle’s Meg/Charles Wallace/Calvin series.
your favorite fantasy book: Many Waters, Madeleine L’Engle. Hot. Talk about fantasies.
your favorite mystery book: N or M?, Agatha Christie.
your favorite biography: Digressions on Some Poems By Frank O’Hara, Joe LeSeur.
your favorite “coming-of-age” book: Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger.
your favorite book not on this list: those in my profile.
Charles Jensen | Writer 
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