Stack of Spines

Attention Book Bloggers!  I am starting a new meme — Flashback Friday.

I take inspiration from Julie Buxbaum’s After You whose main character Ellie remembers the events in her life according to what she was reading at the time.

For me, it has always been about books.  I can tell you what I was reading when the Twin Towers fell (White Teeth), or when Lucy crashed her mother’s Buick and broke her nose when she was seventeen (Prince of Tides), or when Greg called to say Sophie had been born, 6lbs, 7oz. (The Accidental Tourist). When in fourth grade, Eric Schwartz passed me a note saying I like you and then asked me to give it to Lucy for him (Sweet Valley High #3, Playing with Fire), and in eighth when Lucy got elected student-body president and I was picked to be delegate (Pet Sematary and Love Story, alternating between the two).  When my parents told me they were getting divorced (The World According to Garp) and when Phillip asked me to marry him (Play It As It Lays).

Flashback Friday asks you to take a walk down memory lane and describe a book that corresponds with a past or memorable event in your life.

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My first flashback comes from Emily Giffin’s Something Borrowed.  I was reading this the week before I got married, which is ironic considering the plot heavily revolves around infidelity. Being engaged (and admittedly, obsessed with wedding planning) at the time, I was initially drawn by the cover.

Over my honeymoon I read the sequel, Something Blue, which was from the opposite perspective and helped put my cheating fears to rest.

Since, I’ve read all of Emily Giffin’s books, but perhaps I will save those for another flashback…