And help you avoid the crap exchange mentioned in the preceding entry.
Beginning today and for the next few days, I’ll post a few meaningful and inexpensive gift ideas for anyone still scrambling.
Today’s picks left me hot and bothered:
The Classics
The right book at the right time can light us up and change our lives. And as good as many of our modern day authors are (I’ll focus on a few in an upcoming entry) very few have come close to living up to the classics. You may have skimmed or skipped many of the following in high school or college (or read Cliff’s version), but it really didn’t matter because as teens their wisdom and beauty and humor would have been lost on us.
But reading them now…holy crap they’ll make you blush, gush, think, change and tickle you way down deep in your belly.
I suggest heading to your nearest used bookstore because there is nothing like having an old, worn and dog-eared friend to steal away with (and there is something rather sexy about wondering who read the pages before you). But if you don’t have time for surfing the stacks, just click the links below for speedy delivery.
Here are five of my favorites:
- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury: freakishly ahead of his time.)
- Anything Henry David Thoreau, but especially Walden. (Be careful, you might forever lose the recipient to Henry’s beguiling ways.)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Maya’s words sing).
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Has there ever been a more tragically funny--and tragically relatable--character than Holden Caulfield?)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Tortuous, twisted, unromantic love--how in the hell did she write this?)
Whew! A book…such a perfect thing.
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