Booking Through Thursday: Changes

This week BTT asks about life-changing reads:

There have been books I loved, books that I fell in love with, and books that changed my life, and they’re not always the same nor mutually exclusive....Has a book ever inspired you to change anything in your life, fiction or non-fiction alike?

OK, I'm going to be lazy here (one of the few things I'm really good at). A couple of years ago, BTT asked almost this same question, so I'm just going to recycle the answer I posted back then. Here goes:

This week, BTT asks "Which Book Changed Your Life?" and at first I thought "that's easy – none of them." Many books have affected me in one way or another, but I really couldn't think of any that were noticeably life-changing.

But then I remembered a sunny spring day, many centuries ago on a planet far, far away. I was a senior in high school. It was lunchtime. And this tall skinny kid with long, Beatlesque hair, who I'd had my eye on for weeks, spent an entire half hour telling me the plot of a novel he'd read recently.

The book was How Awful About Allan, a fairly forgettable potboiler by Henry Farrell, the same writer who produced Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? I remember almost nothing at all about the plot of the book, but I certainly remember the young man who told it to me. Two years later I married him, and he's sitting in the next room right now drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.

So I guess my life really was changed by a book. And one I never even read!