Mmmmmm.....books

Some books are sooo scrumptious you could eat them: plots as slick as lollypops, characters as complex as dark chocolate truffles and themes that leave you as stuffed as that crème brule with the perfectly candied surface and a juicy strawberry to top. These are the 5 books I would eat if I could.....

• the Luxe series, Anna Godbersen- sumptuous novels about the life and times of New York's elite class in the 1800s. These books have perhaps the most addicting filling of all: drama. These books equal the hors d'ouvres of any fantastic party. completely yummy and they pick your appetite for dinner
  


• Mansfield Park, Jane Austen- this novel is so wonderfully, emotionally like carbs: it stays with you for a while. Its "complex carbs" include a very shy character named Fanny and her wonderful cousin Edmund who secretly holds her heart. However many distractions come along. it is the peculiar story of how this timid girl kept her morals and was rewarded for it. I would like to eat this book, so that it will always be with me.
  




• The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett- the frosted cupcakes of all books; this is the book that made me love to read. Just like the effects of an overdose of cupcake sugar frosting, this book transported me to a world unknown and made be crave even more sugary goods!




• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho- Probably one of the most meaty books I have ever read. I had to stop to think with almost every page. Its story of a journey is eternal, and just makes me want to ingest this filet mignon even more! Too bad it’s not bigger;)
  

However there are some books I would like to eat solely for the purpose of destruction.

• One such of these books is The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; not so much for the fact it was a bad book, I loved it, when I was done the moral was so great and deep, but it was the hardest book I have ever read. It was like trying to get through your 16th slice of triple fudge brownie your grandma is pushing down your throat. Delicious but maybe too rich. The read was so complicated I had to devise a system to get through the book: read in increments of 5 minutes. The satisfaction of finishing this book, though, would make grandma equally as proud