All the cool things in life |
My name is Danielle and I like cool things. |
#13 I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
My tweet sized summary: A young cabdriver Ed accidentally stops a bank robber and then finds himself caught up in a strange job of delivering messages to strangers.
#12 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
My tweet sized summary: The writer Kilgore Trout gets invited to speak in a small town and has an encounter with a man who is taking Trout’s fiction for truth.
#11 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
My tweet sized summary: A creative take on the classic Hamlet, told from the point of view of the two minor characters in the form of a play.
#10 Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
My tweet sized summary: Dr. Ransom is kidnapped by 2 men intending to sacrifice him to another planet, but he escapes and lives his new life in an unEarthly place.
#9 God In a Brothel by Daniel Walker
My tweet sized summary: A Christian man shares his exploits working undercover in the bleak world of human trafficking.
#8 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My tweet sized summary: A pilot crashes in the desert where he meets a little prince from another planet trying to find his way home.
#7 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe
My tweet sized summary: The story of a man who was “born with this fierceness, this uncontrollable passion that fastens on everything [he] touch[es]!”
Reading is cool.
Don’t you wish celebrities went to your parties? That would be cool.
(via stsousa)