Five Books
Posted on August 27th, 2009 in books
I don’t do many of these list memes, but I liked this one. Wendy (she’s my sister) started this one. And she didn’t make up any silly rules about tagging people, which is refreshing. Making lists is hard for me, though. Why this one, and not that one?
Five Books I Know Better Than I Know Myself
- Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
- The Other Side of the Sun by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
- Betsy In Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace
Five Books I Wish I Could Read Again For the First Time
(besides the ones above?!?)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
- Laura by Donald Zochert
- A Severed Wasp by Madeleine L’Engle
- Red Thunder by John Varley
Five Books I Look Forward To Knowing More Intimately
(hard because I don’t find these so often any more)
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Welcome To the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life by Pamela Smith Hill
- the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (no, I’m not intimate with these yet)
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August 27th, 2009
Oh! THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN! I have to read that again right away, thanks for reminding me. It’s been years, but I have a copy. *wanders off*
August 27th, 2009
You’re the only person I’ve ever met who’s read The Other Side of the Sun! I think that’s her forgotten novel.
August 27th, 2009
Not quite forgotten. The really forgotten one is Ilsa, her second novel. Had to get it through interlibrary loan
August 27th, 2009
Laura by Donald Zochert–your very first trip to central library. You spied the book and grabbed it. It was also your first overnight at my apartment and you spent the whole time reading the book.
August 27th, 2009
That’s right! Finding a book with MORE about Laura was amazing. Have read more since then, but that first discovery is the most exciting.
August 27th, 2009
I am bemused by you and Melody both choosing Little Brother, even though I knew you both liked it (I might even have recommended it to you). I mean, when you know it intimately, are you going to notice that the writing TOTALLY BLOWS? [she said snobbishly]
August 28th, 2009
I dunno…I just finished reading a whole bunch of Cory Doctorow, snob. I didn’t like all of it as well as Little Brother, but I liked lots of it.
August 29th, 2009
When the Dark comes rising, six will turn it back
Three from the circle, three from the track
Wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone…
Somehow I didn’t know that that was one of your very favorite series, too.