Book Blog Hop: Influential Book(s)

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This week's question is something I cannot answer easily: What book influenced or changed your life? How did it influence/change your life?

Absolutely nothing pops into my head. I love reading. I love books. There are definitely certain books I love more than others, but finding one which had an actual impact on my life outside of reading is not easy. A few tenuous threads are twirling through my head, but nothing strong and solid.

I could say Alan Moore's Watchmen because it was my first graphic novel and completely changed the way I viewed GNs. I could say Harry Potter because it was my first foray in YAL and started a love affair with young adult fantasy books. Or so many other books which introduced me to a new genre or form or time period or author or........

Books have influenced me to read other books, to enjoy genres and forms I hadn't tried before or was biased against. Books have also changed the way I view the world, like Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller, a nonfiction account of one white girl growing up in a war-torn section of Africa. But I can't think of a single book that has changed the way I live my life.

Perhaps I need to take more from books than I do. Or perhaps I took this question much too seriously and any and all of my above answers would have been perfectly acceptable.