Yesterday over at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books Sarah asked this burning question: What is your A-book? And this got me thinking about my A-book, which will forever be at the tippy top of my A-list not because the author is awesome (which she is) or that the book was great (which it was), but simply because it made me fall back in love with reading.

I'll admit that college pretty much killed any desire I had to read. There was something about all those lit classes I took that made my brain seize up and say no more. So I went through a span of about two years where I read only a dozen or so books. Then a co-worker of mine started a genre study group for library staff and gave me Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie to read. It may sound melodramatic to say a book changed my life, but in a way it did. Reading something as good as Welcome to Temptation reminded me that not only were there books out there that I could enjoy reading, but that I actually used to enjoy reading. It was a wake up call of sorts. Since then I've been an obsessive reader, and I will be eternally grateful to Jennifer Crusie for that for the rest of my life.

If you don't believe that Jennifer Crusie had such profound impact on me, consider this: the last time she was at Anderson's I managed to work in a field trip to the signing into my reference class. That's how important it was to me. I didn't feel too guilty though as the students really seemed to enjoy it. :-)

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