The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.
Basbanes makes you love books.
I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again.
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
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