Day 95

Alice

Over the course of a week I have managed to read all of these books and now I am so emersed in the world of Alice McKinley that I can't seperate her world from mine. When I was 13 I read "Alice in Rapture, Sort of" and it was the first book, ever, that I managed to read in one day. I was in 7th grade and I picked it up off of the shelf in our school library. I only picked it because it was on the reading list at school and we had to read a certain number of books for the semester. I ended up loving it and it actually caught my attention long enough to clue me into the fact that I love to read. At that time there were only a few Alice books in the series but over the span of 14 years Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has been adding to Alice's story. I had no idea that there were so many more books in the series until this summer, when I decided to study my favorite books looking for patterns in style. I decided to start with the series that started it all for me. Well, I've been reading for about 3 weeks and I have managed to read 19 of the books that were in the Alice series. I'm obsessed all over again, just like I was when I was 13... except now I'm 27.