I really love books about, just, simple things and the human existence, and "Atonement" is a good example that something small can happen and change the trajectory of someone's life.
I was introduced to reading from a very, very young age.
Both my parents, actually, are really avid readers and reading was always really encouraged in our house.
You know, an outing for me and my little sister was always to the bookstore over the toy store, and my mother would always kind of let us go rogue and pick almost as many books... within reason, as many books as we wanted.
And one of the first books that I really remember reading and loving was Lemony Snicket's "Series of Unfortunate Events".
I think when I was younger I had such a vivid imagination, and those books really fed into that.
It was probably my first introduction to dark humour in literature, and I remember being very inspired by the world of Lemony Snicket, as dark and twisted as those stories are.
I'm definitely a "before sleep" reader, which is hard when you're reading a good book, and it's hard to fall asleep because you want to stay up and read.
The last time I had that, I think it was "My Year of Rest and Relaxation".
As I said, my parents have always been really big readers and so we're constantly sharing books.
