Book meme, stolen from alasdair

[annwfyn]

Don't take too long to think about it. 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1) Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
2) Hard Times - Charles Dickens
3) A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula le Guin
4) Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje
5) Sword at Sunset - Rosemary Sutcliff
6) A House at Pooh Corner - AA Milne
7) The Emperor's Babe - Bernadine Evaristo
8) The Murder of Roger Akroyd - Agatha Christie
9) The Black Riders - Violet Needham
10) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
11) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
12) Through Violet Eyes - Stephen Woodworth
13) The Russian Century: A History of the Last Hundred Years - Brian Moynhan
14) Cordelia's Honour - Lois McMaster Bujold
15) Collapse: How Society's Chose To Fail Or Survive - Jared Diamond

With alasdair's variation: If you'd like to know more about a book, or what it means to me, leave a comment explaining what you'd like to know about my relationship with that book, and I'll tell you.

Comments

[oddnumbereven.livejournal.com]

I've read & loved several of these authors, and a couple of these particular titles (8&10). 3, 4, 7 & 15 - anything you'd like to tell me about the click! moment/aspect of those works, or what image sticks with you from them, I'd be dead keen to hear.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

3) A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula le Guin

I read this when I was quite young - my mother gave it to me. And I loved it. I loved the world, the magic, the feel of the language. The second book - the Tombs of Atuan - I love even more and Ged and Tenar have totally warped my view on romance entirely. I still re-read the entire Earthsea series from time to time.

4) Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje

My mother was raised in Sri Lanka. We've always kept in touch with a lot of her friends from there, all of whom are Sinhala, and many of whom are quite involved with the government. They are a fairly privileged bunch. Therefore, as I child I was raised with a fairly rose tinted view of Sri Lanka and the Sinhala government, probably not intentionally.

This book was the first book I'd read which really looked at the mess and the complications and the horrible faults on both sides. It was also interesting because it was about the time period in which pierot's family left Sri Lanka, and that's something that affects him too.

7) The Emperor's Babe - Bernadine Evaristo

It's a novel in verse, about Roman London, and about a Black girl in Roman London. The images, the sound of the words, the verse all just stuck with me, echoing around in my mind.

15) Collapse: How Society's Chose To Fail Or Survive - Jared Diamond

Another eye opener. A very clever book that I took forever to finish, dipping in and out, but it just stuck and affected the way I perceive the environment and the way we as a species act.

'Creeping normalisation' is also a concept that stuck in my brain and now I look for it everywhere.

[badgersandjam.livejournal.com]

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