30 Day Blogging Challenge: Day 12

 Your Favourite Childhood Book

This is a no brainer!

When I was about 11 my childhood friend introduced me to the fourth book in The Princess Diaries series which I didn’t like much because I was lost in the plot but it had a diary style format so I was impartial to it. So, when I got to high school a few years later I found the first one in the library and fell in love with it when I realized it was nothing like the movie. Mia (the main character) was a lot like me. Fresh into high school, awkward as hell and she kept a diary. I fell in love instantly. I’m not sure which one in the series is my favourite one, it’s hard to choose.

The third one when she has anxiety about her first kiss and finds out the guys she liked likes her back, which I read just before The Best trip of My Life?

The sixth one when she’s doubtful about having sex for the first time and the peer pressure surrounding it, which I’d read when I was debating with the exact same thing. How about the seventh one where she is trying to decide what to do in college which I read just before my final year which I entered more equipped than if I’d never read it?

Okay, what about the 9^th one when she breaks up with her log term boyfriend and doesn’t know how she’ll survive which I found at 17 in my first year of University while I was trying to get over a boy I thought I could not live without, which gave me hope? Okay what about the 10^th one? When Michael comes back for her and she is finally self-actualized and takes him back as a whole person who doesn’t depend on him for her happiness? The 11^th and last one which I only read last year when she gets married?

 I cannot possibly choose, these books dictated the way I keep my diaries even the way I formatted them. It was my friend through times I had not yet foreseen and gave me comfort in times when I didn’t know if I’d made the right choices. They took me through my teen years, yes but they showed me as a child how important it is to keep a diary, for your own sanity’s sake. They also showed me that my love of word is valid, that with practice I could become a writer someday.  They took me from my teen years to my early twenties, I’m eternally grateful to Meg Cabot and Mia for being there through the foundation of the person I’m becoming.