Friday, June 17, 2005
Book Meme
The challenge, via Steven Taylor: “five books I liked enough as a teen/young adult to read again as an adult,” followed by a bonus challenge I found oddly easier…
1. The Narnia series, of which The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is number 1 and The Magician’s Nephew (possibly my favorite) is number 6, vile revisionism by the publisher notwithstanding. I didn’t read these until I was about 13, oddly enough.
2. Lucifer’s Hammer, by Niven and Pournelle. I have read it several times.
3. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I never read The Hobbit because I got bored when I originally tried.
4. McCaffrey’s Pern series (the ones that were around when I was teen/young adult, anyway)
5. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Probably many others I am not thinking of offhand.
Books as a Child (from Middle School back) that Helped Establish my Love of Reading:
1. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
2. Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time
3. The Brains Benton Mystery series by George Wyatt & Charles Spain Verral
4. The Far Distant Oxus by Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock
5. The Secret Garden by by Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Grimbold’s Other World by Nicholas Gray
7. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The original second part from Steven Taylor only had six, but I easily came up with seven and could have probably thought of more.
Feel free to join in, or discuss books here. I don’t believe in tagging anyone with these things.