My first tag!

Thank you, Old Lady, for tagging me! My very first tag. A momentous occasion.

1. A book that has changed your life. The Search for Significance by Robert S. McGee. This book told me a lot about myself -- why I feel the things I feel and do the things I do. It effected me at the very core of my being and I haven't been the same since.
2. A book you have read more than once. The answer to this is going to say a lot about my personality. I tend to read cookbooks like novels, anxiously turning the pages as if they were suspenseful thrillers. Grab any cookbook from my shelves and you will have picked a book that I have read countless times.
3. A book you would want on a desert island. Emotionally, I would not handle being on a desert island very well. I would need my Bible to help me remain calm and to keep me from hanging myself from a banana tree or from slitting my wrists with a coconut.
4. A book that made you laugh. The first book that comes to mind is Naked by David Sedaris. I remember sitting in my car in a McDonald's parking lot eating a quarter-pounder with cheese while reading the first few chapters. I laughed until there were tears streaming down my face. My goodness, that book was funny. Just this past Monday, I purchased tickets to hear David Sedaris speak in my city. I can't wait!
5. A book that made you cry. I don't cry very easily. It is rare for me to become that emotional during a movie or while reading a book. But if I did possess the ability to weep at the drop of a hat, I would have cried while reading Anne Sebold's Lucky, a memoir recounting her rape experience.
6. A book you wish you had written. Every fluffy chick lit novel that has ever been made into a multi-million dollar movie. Then I would be typing this post from my mansion in LA while filming an episode of MTV's Cribs instead of hacking away in a tiny guest bedroom/office in some podunk southern city.
7. A book you wish had never been written. The editor of our newspaper gets a lot of books in the mail in hopes that he would review them. Since our editor never reads books (go figure, an editor that never reads!), he usually passes them along to us. One of those books was What They Want by Omar Tyree. Forgive me for criticizing a brother trying to find his little piece of the American dream but that book was horrible.
8. A book you are currently reading. It's actually a book that I've read already, Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs. I am rereading it in an attempt to satiate my hunger while waiting for his most recent book, Possible Side Effects, to make it to paperback.
9. A book you have been meaning to read. For two summers I have wanted to read Nabakov's Lolita. Two summers have now passed and I still have not read it. At the beginning of the summer, a blog commenter, Steve, suggested I read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I haven't read that yet either. The 1,000 plus pages are scaring me.
10. Now tag 5 people: Kissyface, CreativeSoul2005, Two Write Hands, Broken, Angel, Dre, and PlainJane. I know, that's 7 people.