Simply put, five books that I absolutely adore and inspired me to become a--ahem--novelist.
1) Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
A really amazing book. Quite possibly the book that made me decide to be an author. I remember that we got it on CD from the library, and after we took it back I demanded a copy for my birthday. (I ended up with two. I had a short list that year.) I think it's the book that really introduced me to the concept of world building ("What do you mean, she doesn't know what rice is?") without being, er, Magic Kingdom For Sale--SOLD!
I was pretty young then, so I don't exactly remember exactly why I loved it. What I do remember was wanting to be exactly like Daine, and you could be sure that the name Alanna would work its way into whatever game I was playing.
2) Lemony Snicket. Period.
And you wonder why I have a vocabulary the size of Jupiter. Another book that imprinted itself on me at a young age, I got the first three as a present along with the first two Spiderwick Chronicles books. (Yeah, we're not even going to go there.) So far, I have 11 out of 13 of the books, and I've gotten Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Biography from the library twice. Anybody who knows me knows that I love the series to pieces. (And if you do know me, but didn't know that… Well, this is awkward.)
At this point, I'm just going to leave it at that. It's a, er, Very Fine Documentation.
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*crickets*
3) Anything by E. L. Koningsburg
Her books are amazing. (I wonder how many times I'm going to use "amazing" and "book" in a single sentence in the rest of this post.) All of them are about quirky kids doing epic things. In From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, an adolescent girl and her brother successfully hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an extended period of time, which to little me was a lot more awesome than solving the mystery of the
Do I even have to go on?
4) The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Along the same vein of Koningsburg, but slightly less realistic. Slightly. 485 pages of quirky characters, vocabulary expansion, secrets, and kid power. How could I resist?
I can't remember how I discovered this book--probably in the same way as A Series of Unfortunate Events and many of the other books I love--but I will never forget how awesome it is.
5) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A recently rediscovered this book. It's a classic. Everybody knows it, right? It's like Peter Pan: Everybody knows about it and it would be hard to find someone who wouldn't be able to tell you the plot. Still, I have to say I like Through The Looking Glass better. I just like the characters more, and… Look, I just like it, okay?!
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And there you have it. I can't think of much else to say, other than… Okay, I really can't think of anything more to say.
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