a meme after my bookwormish heart

[etoiline]

Ganked from lafemmedarla. Yay bookworms! Side note: I'm including books that are on my bookshelf at home, as well, since they *are* mine, they're just not looked at quite as often as the ones at the apartment ;)

Copy this list of 10 authors. Remove the ones not on your bookshelves and replace each of them with ones that are (replaced authors are in bold, make sure to remove the bold if you match me).

1. Elizabeth Haydon
2. Patrick O'Brien
3. Jaqueline Carey
4. Tad Williams
5. David Eddings
6. Oscar Wilde
7. Choderlos de Laclos
8. JK Rowling
9. Graham Joyce
10. Arthur Conan Doyle

Notice how the replacements are all fantasy authors? lol. You can tell my favorite genre...Of course, you know there are a helluva lot more books on my shelves than these. And more that *aren't* on shelves. I love books. I shouldn't have to buy any more books for several years, with the backlog of paperbacks (and hardcovers...I've broken my "no-hardbacks" rule several times in the past few months) that I have to read. So I'm trying to keep myself away from bookstores. Yeah. Sometimes it works.


1. William Shakespeare
2. Patrick O'Brien
3. J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Gaston Leroux
5. Terry Pratchett
6. Oscar Wilde
7. Choderlos de Laclos
8. Charles Dickens
9. Graham Joyce
10. Arthur Conan Doyle

Comments

[amaria.livejournal.com]

Tell me you read O.S. Card. Tell me.

And how do you not have any Tolkien?

[etoiline.livejournal.com]

Mrr. I've only read a novella by O.S. Card. I never got my hands on the first book in one of his series...though I think I have a couple others, not first in line, somewhere in my house. Recommend them to me. Not that I need any more books.

And Tolkien was one of the authors replaced because I've got the LotR books, silly ;)

[amaria.livejournal.com]

Im confuddled. I thought you were replacing ones you didnt have for ones you did. Whoops.

Which novella? And well, since I gather you like fantasy more than Sci-Fi, dont start with the Ender series. Go for the Alvin Maker ones (American colonial history if magic stayed alive). Heh. I dont need any more books either but I keep on buyin' em. Better than the usual teenage vices I say. ;)

[etoiline.livejournal.com]

It was an Alvin Maker story in the Legends II collection that came out last year, edited by Robert Silverberg. Something about heading down the Mississippi. I have to admit I checked the book out from the library because it had new stories by Elizabeth Haydon and Robin Hobb in it. But the OSC one was good.