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corrielle

Book and reading meme!

Mar 22, 2013 21:27

I got this from a friend on tumblr, and thought I should post it here, too.

1. Favorite childhood book?

This is complicated. So, here are some books that got re-read a lot when I was a kid:

The Amelia Bedilia books by Peggy Parish.

Keep Your Mouth Closed, Dear by Aliki Brandenberg (This is the first book I remember laughing at so hard I cried. ( Read more... )

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corrielle March 26 2013, 06:35:30 UTC

I would love to read your answers to these questions.

When it comes to Amazon free books, I see them like books I get from the library. I don't have to keep them on my device after I read them, and there is no commitment on my part other than the time it takes to find and download them.

aletheiafelinea March 23 2013, 19:49:46 UTC

Wonderful! I've longed recently for some nice meme, and I'm quite tempted to try this. If I only had more time currently...

corrielle March 26 2013, 06:36:39 UTC

Thanks! You should try it! I answered these over a period of several days... I don't think I could have found the time to do them all at once.

choraii March 26 2013, 01:56:01 UTC

Just thought I'd let you know that I read all this, and I found it all intriguing -- you actually had an author comment on one of your reviews, that's awesome.

Also, do any of the Mercedes Lackey books fall on your guilty (or not-guilty, as the case may be) pleasure list? I'm a huge fan of "Queen's Own," "Last Herald-Mage," and "Oathbreakers" and would love someone to gush with.

corrielle March 26 2013, 06:41:18 UTC

Oh man... I haven't read a Mercedes Lackey book in about a decade, but I probably own upwards of 15 of them. I read the Last Herald Mage series, and the Mage Wars, and... all of the ones that start with "Arrows" and the Mage Winds, and the Mage Storms. Yeah. I read a lot of Valdemar back in the day, and I remember enjoying them VERY much. (And, like for a lot of people, they were the first books that really portrayed gay and lesbian characters in a positive, normal light, and I will always love them for that.)

I still need to read the Oathbreakers series... I don't know how I never got to those.

choraii March 26 2013, 07:04:05 UTC

RE: "Last Herald-Mage" -- I'm enough of a geek to have devoured "Foundations" (some of ML's own commentary on her own work), and she said that she elected that the reader wouldn't know Vanyel was gay until you were already invested in him and he was figuring that out himself. I thought she succeeded wonderfully at that. I thought also that she succeeded ... ummm ... kinda too well at portraying exactly how hard it is to have had a true love (lifebonded or just nonmagical love) and come back to life as a single person. The series is full of contradictions for me. It has some of the best hurt/comfort I have ever read in my life (way before I even knew what h/c was). It portrays ... eerily and wonderfully ... the idea of encasing oneself in ice because one is surrounded by expectations one CAN not meet, and the pain of it all, and the way that love can bring dreams back. And yet the underlying impossibilities and despair of the second and third books ... I've only read them once, and I keep telling myself I'm strong enough to go ( ... )