Twilight

Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
2008
Weight: 1.1 lb
Method of Disposal: Donating 

I remember when Twilight came out and women in their twenties and thirties were flooding the bookstore I worked at to get their hands on a copy.  They freaking loved that shit.  One woman emphatically told me it was the BEST book she ever read.  Later,  I dated someone who loved to get high and giggle at the ridiculous movies and the acting.  The looks, the facial expressions--it was all a little too much for me.  I was determined to read Book One and to understand, but I just could not get there.  But, that makes me the odd one out.  This book was and is well loved.  I guess I grew up with and continued to pine away for Christopher Pike and Anne Rice.  

My copy of this book still has an EXCLUSIVE POSTER INSIDE, you lucky ducks!

Lasher

Lasher  by Anne Rice
1995
Weight: 8 oz
Method of Disposal: Donating

(picture taken by Heather Hartman)

I will never forget staying up all night reading The Witching Hour and Lasher.  I mean, really, all night.  I did not even sleep for 30 minutes.  I was a teenager, and I was hooked by the intensity, the sexuality, and the alternate reality of the books.  I never read Rice now but, when I started getting into her was when I started loving reading.  It was like taking Christopher Pike to the next level.