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vivienThese are favorites from childhood as well as adulthood. They are the ones I read over and over again. The first three are my top favorites of all time. In order ;)
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Fiddle dee dee, I can't find my copy of Gone with the Wind, but it would be here as my second best favorite ever. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Sidda is a girl again in the hot heart of Louisiana, the bayou world of Catholic Saints and voodoo queens. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells - this book strikes deep deep chords with me.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal people, thank you very much. All of the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
The Whistle Stop Cafe opened up last week, right next door to me at the post office, and owners Idgie Threadgood and Ruth Jamison said business had been good ever since. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg - I cry whenever I read this. It is so poignant.
These are my New Year's Resolutions: 1. I will help the blind across the road.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ Sue Townsend
I cried, on and off, for four days when my mother told me that it was all arranged for me to leave home and everybody and everything I loved and go to live in a strange place with people I had never seen. The Maude Reed Tale by Norah Lofts
Dusk had fallen, turning the very air of Rome an intense blue in the last struggle of day with night.
Blood Games, A St. Germain Novel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. Wrinkle in Time trilogy, Madeleine L'Engle (actually Swiftly Tilting Planet is my favorite of all, but it must be hiding with my copy of Gone with the Wind)
I don't know what to write.
The Turning Place: Stories of a Future Past by Jean Karl - this was a collection of short scifi stories that blew my young mind when I first read it. It starts with a story of how life is nearly wiped out on the earth and the gradual regrowth of civilization. The back had fake "Some Notes on Sources" that made out the tales as authentic. My first alt-universe novel ;)
Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that is exactly what happened...
Pet Semetary, Steven King - the creepiest and saddest of all King's stories.
Ok, I'm keeping Fried green Tomatoes out to read again.
Man, my head hurts, I am not done reading Spiders from Mars yet, it's bed time, and Angel was of the disappointing tonight. Grrr. Argh.
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Fiddle dee dee, I can't find my copy of Gone with the Wind, but it would be here as my second best favorite ever. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Sidda is a girl again in the hot heart of Louisiana, the bayou world of Catholic Saints and voodoo queens. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells - this book strikes deep deep chords with me.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal people, thank you very much. All of the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
The Whistle Stop Cafe opened up last week, right next door to me at the post office, and owners Idgie Threadgood and Ruth Jamison said business had been good ever since. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg - I cry whenever I read this. It is so poignant.
These are my New Year's Resolutions: 1. I will help the blind across the road.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ Sue Townsend
I cried, on and off, for four days when my mother told me that it was all arranged for me to leave home and everybody and everything I loved and go to live in a strange place with people I had never seen. The Maude Reed Tale by Norah Lofts
Dusk had fallen, turning the very air of Rome an intense blue in the last struggle of day with night.
Blood Games, A St. Germain Novel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. Wrinkle in Time trilogy, Madeleine L'Engle (actually Swiftly Tilting Planet is my favorite of all, but it must be hiding with my copy of Gone with the Wind)
I don't know what to write.
The Turning Place: Stories of a Future Past by Jean Karl - this was a collection of short scifi stories that blew my young mind when I first read it. It starts with a story of how life is nearly wiped out on the earth and the gradual regrowth of civilization. The back had fake "Some Notes on Sources" that made out the tales as authentic. My first alt-universe novel ;)
Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that is exactly what happened...
Pet Semetary, Steven King - the creepiest and saddest of all King's stories.
Ok, I'm keeping Fried green Tomatoes out to read again.
Man, my head hurts, I am not done reading Spiders from Mars yet, it's bed time, and Angel was of the disappointing tonight. Grrr. Argh.
