Obsessive Book Lover's Month of Books - Day Seven
First, I just wrote the nasty fight at the end of the book! I just have to fill in a little end-matter and Letters to My Nemesis will be a done draft. I'm squealing inside!
Day 7
Make a mini-list of books that show cases your reading at its most eclectic (up to 5)
The Princess Diaries
Middlemarch
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Women Who Run With The Wolves
Winnie The Pooh
The books I own are on my shelves because I love them and think I want to read them again several times, at a moment's notice.
Princess Diaries, to me, represents the fluffy side of young adult literature, into which I'd lump Harry Potter and other slightly more serious but still pillowy fantasy. I don't read much YA that isn't fantasy, but if the voice strikes me enough, and makes me really, truly laugh, well...that's special. And Meg Cabot just nails it with this one.
(haven't found the right cover [shock! outrage!] but this is in the more proper spirit though I have never seen it in the wild)
Middlemarch is ambitious literature--one of the few novels of such that I've enjoyed. It was a challenge, like Monte Cristo, that I overcame and found worth going back to mull over. With it I put Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and the fantasy literature that really stands on its own as the only of it's kind. Peerless books, where their basic materials have been transcended.
...see, when you get me into comparisons I can throw so many book names out, it's not even funny. I must stop! Even if this is an obsessive book-lover's meme. There is no one to impress here... :lies:
The Bartimaeus Trilogy is an emblem of YA fantasy that is dark, and clever, and unique. I only have a few of that kind and calibre on my shelves besides this one
I have only a couple of non-fiction books for keeps, even fewer that I've actually read, but Women Who Run With the Wolves is basically that book. It is one the line I adore in non-fiction of being poetic, funny, with stories that aren't just anecdotes for the thesis. There are a few more I'd add to my library if they were the kind of thing easier to find in a used bookstore, but yanno...niche books are niche books. And Autumn Lightning - Tale of an American Samurai is just not kicking around Goodwill.
Lastly, Winnie the Pooh is just awesome.
tho it also had a sketchy illustration style I found uninspiring as a kids. I love saturated colors and textures and depth. Digital cameras in the hands of the masses are like the best thing to happen to me...