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lomedet, among others:
"This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."
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browngirl said, these are, ahaha, not always recommendations.)
1. Baby Island - Carol Ryrie Brink
2. A Place Called Home - Lori Wick
3. The Conquest - Jude Deveraux
4. Good Night, Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
5. The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
6. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
7. The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
8. Deerskin - Robin McKinley
9. The Immortals - Tracy Hickman
10. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
11. An Exchange of Hostages - Susan R. Matthews
12. Murder at the War - Mary Monica Pulver
13. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
14. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
15. Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
I have a very good memory for words and stories, so a pretty significant fraction of the books I've read will always stick with me, but I set my mind toward the formative ones. These all were important in one way or another, or represented something important--though if I hadn't realized some way into my fifteen minutes that I read all the books I'd then come up with before graduating high school, I probably would have included Watership Down instead of Sandman. (They are listed in roughly the order I first read them, because I am anal like that.)
Then, ahaha, I tried to do the same thing with fic (because for the last eight years or so most of my really memorable and formative reading has been fic). THIS SECTION OF THE MEME IS UNTESTED, PLEASE EXCUSE... EVERYTHING. As above, it's just fifteen that stick with me that I thought of in fifteen minutes, not my absolute favorites or whatever.
These are, uh, also not necessarily recs.*
1. Generations (I don't remember the author and am kind of terrified of what I will find if I go looking--it was a huge X-Files epic series, Mulder/Scully and eventually Skinner/Mrs. Scully, and there were babies and extended family and I loved it to death when I was fourteen.)
2. Guerillas by Helen
3. Kink by Rhys
4. MPREG by Rhys
5. Dancing on Glass - Em Brunson
6. Small Fry by James and Mad Poetess
7. A Critique of Pure Reason by Annakovsky
8. Tea and Biscuits by Wesleysgirl, Byrne and Magpie
9. With Six You Get Eggroll by Speranza
10. Murder Ballad by waxjism
11. Strange Loops by AuKestrel
12. Lust Over Pendle by AJ Hall
13. Parallel Connections over Symmetric Spaces by viggorlijah
14. The World Turned Upside Down by Shalott
15. Une Femme n'est pas Un Homme by fallingfortruth and spleenjournal
* By which I mostly just mean that MURDER BALLAD SCARRED ME FOR LIFE, OKAY? OKAY. I read it three weeks into discovering Due South fandom and I feel it explains a lot about me as a fic writer. Also DON'T READ THE LAST PART OF DANCING ON GLASS. AND IF YOU DO PLEASE DON'T THEN HOLD IT AGAINST ME FOR THREE OR MORE YEARS. I'M SORRY. I DIDN'T KNOW. /o\
lomedet, among others:"This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."
(And like she said
browngirl said, these are, ahaha, not always recommendations.)1. Baby Island - Carol Ryrie Brink
2. A Place Called Home - Lori Wick
3. The Conquest - Jude Deveraux
4. Good Night, Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
5. The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
6. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
7. The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
8. Deerskin - Robin McKinley
9. The Immortals - Tracy Hickman
10. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
11. An Exchange of Hostages - Susan R. Matthews
12. Murder at the War - Mary Monica Pulver
13. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
14. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
15. Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
I have a very good memory for words and stories, so a pretty significant fraction of the books I've read will always stick with me, but I set my mind toward the formative ones. These all were important in one way or another, or represented something important--though if I hadn't realized some way into my fifteen minutes that I read all the books I'd then come up with before graduating high school, I probably would have included Watership Down instead of Sandman. (They are listed in roughly the order I first read them, because I am anal like that.)
Then, ahaha, I tried to do the same thing with fic (because for the last eight years or so most of my really memorable and formative reading has been fic). THIS SECTION OF THE MEME IS UNTESTED, PLEASE EXCUSE... EVERYTHING. As above, it's just fifteen that stick with me that I thought of in fifteen minutes, not my absolute favorites or whatever.
These are, uh, also not necessarily recs.*
1. Generations (I don't remember the author and am kind of terrified of what I will find if I go looking--it was a huge X-Files epic series, Mulder/Scully and eventually Skinner/Mrs. Scully, and there were babies and extended family and I loved it to death when I was fourteen.)
2. Guerillas by Helen
3. Kink by Rhys
4. MPREG by Rhys
5. Dancing on Glass - Em Brunson
6. Small Fry by James and Mad Poetess
7. A Critique of Pure Reason by Annakovsky
8. Tea and Biscuits by Wesleysgirl, Byrne and Magpie
9. With Six You Get Eggroll by Speranza
10. Murder Ballad by waxjism
11. Strange Loops by AuKestrel
12. Lust Over Pendle by AJ Hall
13. Parallel Connections over Symmetric Spaces by viggorlijah
14. The World Turned Upside Down by Shalott
15. Une Femme n'est pas Un Homme by fallingfortruth and spleenjournal
* By which I mostly just mean that MURDER BALLAD SCARRED ME FOR LIFE, OKAY? OKAY. I read it three weeks into discovering Due South fandom and I feel it explains a lot about me as a fic writer. Also DON'T READ THE LAST PART OF DANCING ON GLASS. AND IF YOU DO PLEASE DON'T THEN HOLD IT AGAINST ME FOR THREE OR MORE YEARS. I'M SORRY. I DIDN'T KNOW. /o\