Happy Wednesday, Sparks!

Since we are reading After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid this week for #SRC, we would like to dedicate this week’s edition of Inspired By to Taylor!

Here are the five books that have inspired her most as an author…

The World According to Garp by John Irving

The story about the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son, and their world of sexual 
extremes–even of sexual assassinations.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

A story of modern day love and it’s work as disarming tenderness.

My Friend Leonard by James Frey

The most hearbreaking father-son story you will ever read.  The father Leonard is a high-living recovering coke addict. The son, James embarks on his post-rehab existence in Chicago emotionally devastated, broke, and afraid to get close to other people. But then Leonard comes back into his life, and everything changes.

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

An insanely hilarious coming-of-age story dissecting class, gender, and race in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.  A fourteen-year-old intelligent girl, is dropped off at her boarding school only to find out that the school’s glossy brochure of prestigious boys and girls was far from the jaded, attractive and intimidating students really turned out to be.

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