They asked about my fave books!

anonymous  asked:
Hii! I love your metas! Ive always hated doing literature analysis in school but ever since ive joined fandom, its been my fav thing to read/write and thats largely because of you and other people like you. So thank you for that 😊. I have kind of a random question but whats your favourite book (and why)?
Thank you! It warms the cockles of an ex english teacher’s heart. I love meta because I’m a book geek and I love stories and studying and teaching literature is a way to indulge my passion. I didn’t know people LIKED to hear that stuff until I came to this fandom, because even the biggest geeks in my life got bored hearing me go on about narrative and symbolism. And the english nerds were not interested in scifi and fantasy! So frustrating. 
My favorite book is hard, because I’ve been such a big reader for so long, and yet have NOT read much in the last few years ( I hear tell that this is a symptom of PTSD and anxiety, being unable to focus on books, so I’ve been working on stretching my reading brain.)
I’ll give you a list instead of one book. Some of these are hard core sff geek stuff and it goes back to the 80s so outdated. But let me give a history of me through books.

1. Little House on the Prairie Books, Laura Ingalls Wilder. my first obsession with books. Girl POV, adventure, history, it swept me away into a different world. 
2. A Wrinkle In Time and the rest. Madeleine L’engle.  Girl POV, philosophy, science, adventure.
3. Pern Books, Anne McCaffrey, starting with Lessa (girl POV I’m sensing a theme) DRAGONS! I was so obsessed.
4. The Belgariad, David Eddings, like LOTR but fluffy. boy POV.
5. Clan Of The Cave Bears, Jean Auel, girl POV, prehistorical, adventure,
6. Enders Game etc, Orson Scott Card, boy pov, science fiction, philosophy, adventure. And this was before I knew what a pill Orson Scott Card was. DISAPPOINTED.
7. Emergence, by David R Palmer, out of print. girl POV, genius girl wakes up after all humans die in the apocalypse to find out she’s not human, she’s the next evolutionary step.
8. Cyteen, CJ Cherryh, science fiction, clones and engineered humans. Possibly one of my biggest influences. also girl POV.
9. Hamlet, Shakesepeare. honestly I love this play. This was the first literature that made me realize there was such a thing as subtext.
10. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, found it in the school library and loved it. (we’re still in the 80s in my faves, I haven’t reached age 17 yet)
11. Beloved, Toni Morrison. destroyed me. so beautiful. magical realism and social commentary
12. Assassin Apprentice et al, by Robin Hobb, all the books in that world actually, Fitz and Fool and live ships. if The 100 were high fantasy. You’ll suffer but you’ll be happy about it. 
13. World War Z, Brooks. I love the political imagining of this apocalypse book. Kill the zombies.
14. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, post apocalyptic, girl POV, adventure, politics. 

I feel like I should have more but I’m sticking with what I think are bigger influences and my brain kinda died after THG so I don’t have anything more recent. Favorite? Pick one of those. 3-10 was what I read for YA as a teen. 1 and 2 were as a child. 


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