Book meme
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The Meme: List the first 15 books you think of that have had the greatest influence on you. (This should be fast -- no more than 15 minutes!)
1. The Bible
2. The Book of Common Prayer
3. Wise Child, by Monica Furlong
4. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King (made me want to be a biblical scholar)
5. Operating Instructions, by Anne Lamott
6. Red Bird: Poems, by Mary Oliver
7. The Essential Agrarian Reader
8. Holy the Firm, by Annie Dillard
9. Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
10. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, by Kathleen Norris
11. The Gate to Women’s Country, by Sheri Tepper
12. Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
13. Peter Pan, by James Barrie
14. A Sudden Wild Magic, by Diana Wynne Jones
15. Timeline, by Michael Crichton (really, it was the preface that was influential; I didn't really care for the rest of the book. But the non-fiction preface totally blew my mind about recent developments in quantum physics.)
The Meme: List the first 15 books you think of that have had the greatest influence on you. (This should be fast -- no more than 15 minutes!)
1. The Bible
2. The Book of Common Prayer
3. Wise Child, by Monica Furlong
4. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, by Laurie King (made me want to be a biblical scholar)
5. Operating Instructions, by Anne Lamott
6. Red Bird: Poems, by Mary Oliver
7. The Essential Agrarian Reader
8. Holy the Firm, by Annie Dillard
9. Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
10. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, by Kathleen Norris
11. The Gate to Women’s Country, by Sheri Tepper
12. Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
13. Peter Pan, by James Barrie
14. A Sudden Wild Magic, by Diana Wynne Jones
15. Timeline, by Michael Crichton (really, it was the preface that was influential; I didn't really care for the rest of the book. But the non-fiction preface totally blew my mind about recent developments in quantum physics.)