Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

[dante_kent]

Hello and welcome to Day 2 of (100) Days of Summer (ugh I'm the worst seriously apologies SO PRETENTIOUS). It was such fun hearing from all of you about shipping preferences, so now I'm going to grill you some more. Let's get to it.

So I caught a bit of A Room With A View (the one with Helena Bonham-Carter) a few days ago, and it got me thinking.

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[catteo]

So, off the top of my head:

The Time Traveller's Wife. I consider this to be one of the most moving books that I have ever read and nothing that anybody says and no movie can convince me that it isn't so. I spent the last few chapters ugly crying on a plane and it was super embarassing. I felt that the characters had been so beautifully realised and I felt so SAD.

Here Be Dragons. Confession? I have a thing for well researched obscure historical fiction. Sharon Penman taught me virtually everything I know about this period in history (Shakespeare taught me the rest). I love this book with a passion. It's probably not that accurate and I'm sure that there is a vast amount of artistic license but these books engage me with history in a way that a classroom never could and I am tankful for that.

The Dark Is Rising. I'm pretty certain that this series is single-handedly responsible for my inability to stop reading Fantasy as 90% of my fiction. These books were fabulous and I read them again recently and they were just as amazing as they were when I was 12.

The Lioness/Wild Mage. Tamora Pierce has a lot to answer for. Girls as warriors? Men coming second to work? Perhaps this is where my downfall began after all.

Great Expectations. My favourite Dickens in the history of ever. My mother still refers to me as her little Estelle. I fear that is not a good thing. This book is just evil in the way that it destroys romance as a concept. I love it so.

Rebecca. DuMaurier is one of the most atmospheric writers that I have ever encountered and the first line of this book remains one of the most engaging that I have ever encountered.

I really should actually read Wuthering Heights one of these days!