Dearest Gentle Reader,
I get asked a lot what my favorite books are. So, I did this for you!
Gail’s Favorite Books
- Favorite series: The Song of the Lioness series ~ Tamora Pierce
- Favorite book: By the Sword ~ Mercedes Lackey
- Stranded on a desert island book: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld ~ Patricia McKillip
- Series for a long flight: Daughter of the Empire series ~ Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts
- Book that everyone should be made to read in school: The Gate to Women’s Country ~ Sheri S. Tepper
- Book that everyone should read, period: Feed ~ M.T. Anderson
- Favorite character: Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr from Tanya Huff’s Valor series
- Best villain: Joren of Stone Mountain from Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small series
- Favorite concept: Claimings series ~ Lyn Gala (sci fi, culture conflict)
- Favorite invented world: Ys in Amy Rae Dureson’s The Lodestar of Ys
- Most beautifully written book: The Dark Is Rising ~ Susan Cooper
- Funniest book: The Lightening Struck Heart by TJ Klune
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Ooh. I read The Gate to Women's Country when I was young and it has stayed with me all my life. The Dark is Rising series also. I worry that my kids will miss out on the Arthurian legends, should I make them read the Sword in the Stone and Susan Cooper?
I never got into sword and the stone. I'm trying to remember which Arthurian I did love. Probably Monty Python's Holy Grail. Heh.
Quick thing? The first link, to J.D. MacDonald ~ Or Reading Outside of One's Genre, is friends' locked.