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I’m procrastinating about working on a post about books that have shaped my life, but I recently came across this A to Z book survey at Planet Millie , so I thought I would share it first to help get me thinking about the books that I love. If you decide to do the survey, please let me know and share a link to your site. And please feel free as well to share your thoughts on any of these books!
Author you ve read the most books from : Ursula K. Le Guin, who has been my favourite author for many years. She’s most well known for her fantasy and science fiction novels, but her work – faltkarton in my opinion, at least – really goes beyond any genre classifications. I’ve read all of her novels, most of her short stories, and I’m now working on her poetry, non-fiction, and children’s books.
Best sequel ever : The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley. This was the first of the McKinley’s books that I read, and I think it’s far better faltkarton than the book that it’s a sequel to, The Blue Sword . All of McKinley’s books are excellent, quality fantasy, but this is still one of my favourites.
Currently reading : Eating Stone: faltkarton Imagination and the Loss of the Wild by Ellen Meloy, a non-fiction book about desert faltkarton bighorn faltkarton sheep in the American Southwest. I started this one in the middle of October, but I’m not too far into it yet, as I’ve been more into fiction than non-fiction lately.
Fictional faltkarton character you probably would have actually dated in high school : I can’t really answer this one since I’ve never been on a date in my life and I’ve never felt that way about any characters! faltkarton If I change it to just “Favourite characters”, then I would say Jonathan Strange from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , Katherine Talbert from The Privilege of the Sword , Susan Voight from Freedom & Necessity , and Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle . Some of these characters would probably drive me crazy if I knew them in real life, but I love reading about them.
Glad you gave this book a chance : The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. A friend recommended this one to me but I’d never heard of it before and I wasn’t sure if I would like it. Then I saw it on sale for $5, so I bought it and now it’s one of my favourite novels.
Hidden gem book : The Gone-Away World , again. I don’t see this book mentioned much, but I love it. It’s a science fiction, post-apocalyptic novel with an crazy plot twist near the end. Harkaway has a zany and amazing writing style that I am totally in awe of. And there’s ninjas. I’d also say The Secret Country trilogy by Pamela Dean, which is another favourite faltkarton that I rarely see mentioned. It’s about 5 children who discover that the magical country they invented is real, perhaps even too real. Dean’s writing is full of literary allusions, mainly to Shakespeare’s Macbeth in these books, and the ending is unexpected. The other books in the trilogy are The Hidden Land and The Whim of the Dragon .
Important moment faltkarton in your reading life : Around grade seven, when the school librarian read to us a chapter from Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede. Up until that point, I had mostly faltkarton read books randomly, with no real purpose. When I discovered that book, I became hooked on fantasy, and started actively searching out books I wanted, rather than just reading whatever I happened across.
Just finished : Blackout by Connie Willis. I’ve been wanting to read something by Willis for ages, and I finally came across this one at used book sale. It’s a well-done time travel set in World War II (particularly during the Blitz in London) so it feels more like historical fiction than science fiction. I’m not usually interested in books set during World War II, but I really enjoyed this one. It was also one of the most suspenseful books I have read in a while. The only problem with it is that it’s only the first half of a longer novel; the second half is published in All Clear . I need to get that one now!
Kinds of books you won t read : I have fairly diverse tastes, but probably sappy modern romance novels, and in non-fiction, anything that tries to scare me with conspiracy theories or we’re-all-going-to-die scenarios.
Longest book you ve read : I’ve read quite a few long books, but probably the longest would be Anathem by Neal Stephenson, not only for the sheer length of the book (1000+ pages) but also the weightiness of the ideas within it. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke is also quite long. And both books are among my favourites.
Number of bookcases you own : Not exactly sure, because some belong to me and some belong to the family generally, but my own books live within 5 separate bookcases, there’s a total of 8 bookcases in the library, and you can find 2 more sm