An actual blog post, yegads!
And a meme, at that-- how uncharacteristic. From gramina via nellorat.
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!)
Madeleine L’Engle _A Wind in the Door_
_Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art_
_The Arm of the Starfish_
Marcus Aurelius _Meditations_
Joan Slonczewski _A Door into Ocean_
CS Lewis _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_ et seq.
Robert Heinlein _Stranger in a Strange Land_
Gillian Bradshaw _Hawk of May_
Brown & LeMay _Chemistry: The Central Science_
Wheelock _Latin_
RSV Bible
Strunk & White _The Elements of Style_
William Labov _The Study of Non-Standard English_? (It may have been this or another of his of the same era; I no longer have access to it.)
Charlotte Bronte _Jane Eyre_
Jane Austen _Persuasion_
Orson Scott Card _Wyrms_
Katherine Kurtz _Camber of Culdi_ et seq.
And as I try to pick just one Barbara Hambly, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Anne McCaffrey, Guy Gavriel Kay, Diane Duane, etc., this blurs into a list of books I love and keep rereading, which is related, but not quite the same. So I'll quit before this gets out of control.
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!)
Madeleine L’Engle _A Wind in the Door_
_Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art_
_The Arm of the Starfish_
Marcus Aurelius _Meditations_
Joan Slonczewski _A Door into Ocean_
CS Lewis _The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe_ et seq.
Robert Heinlein _Stranger in a Strange Land_
Gillian Bradshaw _Hawk of May_
Brown & LeMay _Chemistry: The Central Science_
Wheelock _Latin_
RSV Bible
Strunk & White _The Elements of Style_
William Labov _The Study of Non-Standard English_? (It may have been this or another of his of the same era; I no longer have access to it.)
Charlotte Bronte _Jane Eyre_
Jane Austen _Persuasion_
Orson Scott Card _Wyrms_
Katherine Kurtz _Camber of Culdi_ et seq.
And as I try to pick just one Barbara Hambly, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Anne McCaffrey, Guy Gavriel Kay, Diane Duane, etc., this blurs into a list of books I love and keep rereading, which is related, but not quite the same. So I'll quit before this gets out of control.