Young Child: "A Wrinkle in Time," by Madeline L'Engle, is a children's book for grownups, I swear. I still reread it (and its sequels) every now and again, and love its imagery so very much. I also loved L.M. Montgomery's "Emily of New Moon" series, much more than the "Anne of Green Gables" because Emily was a reader, a writer, and different. I tended toward books with strong female heroines, like "Caddie Woodlawn" (Carol Ryrie Brink), and some of the Laura Ingals Wilder books as well.
Tween: I was introduced to Jane Austen in my 7th grade English class (thank you forever, Mrs. Church!), and she's been my favorite author ever since. I've tried to enable everyone I meet who doesn't know Jane, and since the P&P miniseries with Colin Firth came out, it's been much easier!
Teen: Science Fiction! While at the beach (Cape Hatteras) with my family, I found an anthology with short stories by every famous writer you could think of, from Asimov to Ellison to Heinlein, and was in love. I sought every book I could find, old and new. Woo-hoo! After a bit of googling, there's a Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame_Volume_One,_1929-1964) on this book! I wore out my copy so long ago I wasn't even sure of the title, but now I am so I'm getting another copy.
Young Adult: Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Mists of Avalon" made such a huge impression on me that I became Pagan. Oh, not that I believed what she wrote about the Arthurien legend was true, but the story made me think. It made me want more than the patriarchal godhead I'd always been presented with during my whole life. And this began my love for fantasy, even more than Science Fiction. Another book, discovered when I was in my 30s, was "The Copper Crown," a novel of the Keltiad by Patricia Kennealy, who has since hyphenated her name to Kennealy-Morrison. Her books, about Celts in space, are the perfect amalgam of fantasy and science fiction, and endlessly fascinating to me. It is her world I would rather live in, above all others.
Now: sad to say, I don't read nearly as much as I used to, mostly due to spending far too much time online. Like now. But when I do read, it's as you said above: it's ephemeral, a very quick read just as quickly discarded (mostly passed along, either to a friend or via Book Crossing's way). But one current book I've reread more than once is Starhawk's "Five Sacred Things." It's prophetic, and never more so than what is happening to our world (and our country) now.
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Date: 2008-04-16 05:50 pm (UTC)Young Child: "A Wrinkle in Time," by Madeline L'Engle, is a children's book for grownups, I swear. I still reread it (and its sequels) every now and again, and love its imagery so very much. I also loved L.M. Montgomery's "Emily of New Moon" series, much more than the "Anne of Green Gables" because Emily was a reader, a writer, and different. I tended toward books with strong female heroines, like "Caddie Woodlawn" (Carol Ryrie Brink), and some of the Laura Ingals Wilder books as well.
Tween: I was introduced to Jane Austen in my 7th grade English class (thank you forever, Mrs. Church!), and she's been my favorite author ever since. I've tried to enable everyone I meet who doesn't know Jane, and since the P&P miniseries with Colin Firth came out, it's been much easier!
Teen: Science Fiction! While at the beach (Cape Hatteras) with my family, I found an anthology with short stories by every famous writer you could think of, from Asimov to Ellison to Heinlein, and was in love. I sought every book I could find, old and new. Woo-hoo! After a bit of googling, there's a Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame_Volume_One,_1929-1964) on this book! I wore out my copy so long ago I wasn't even sure of the title, but now I am so I'm getting another copy.
Young Adult: Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Mists of Avalon" made such a huge impression on me that I became Pagan. Oh, not that I believed what she wrote about the Arthurien legend was true, but the story made me think. It made me want more than the patriarchal godhead I'd always been presented with during my whole life. And this began my love for fantasy, even more than Science Fiction. Another book, discovered when I was in my 30s, was "The Copper Crown," a novel of the Keltiad by Patricia Kennealy, who has since hyphenated her name to Kennealy-Morrison. Her books, about Celts in space, are the perfect amalgam of fantasy and science fiction, and endlessly fascinating to me. It is her world I would rather live in, above all others.
Now: sad to say, I don't read nearly as much as I used to, mostly due to spending far too much time online. Like now. But when I do read, it's as you said above: it's ephemeral, a very quick read just as quickly discarded (mostly passed along, either to a friend or via Book Crossing's way). But one current book I've reread more than once is Starhawk's "Five Sacred Things." It's prophetic, and never more so than what is happening to our world (and our country) now.