LJ Question of the Day - Book Meme
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What were your favorite books growing up? How did those influence your choice of a favorite genre when you got older?
I've always been into multiple genres.
When I was a small child, my favorites, which were read to me, were:
* The EB White books - Stuart Little, The Trumpeter Swan, and Charlotte's Web - which my father read to me.
* Ronadl Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and James and the Giant Peach - read to me by teachers at school.
* Laura Ingells Wilder's Little House on the Prairie Series read to me by my parents mostly.
* Various fairy tales, and the Disney Picture Book of Robin Hood, which I slept with, along with the other books. I brought books to bed with me and slept with them the way some children might sleep with stuff animals. (My niece also did this.)
* Ghost stories by various writers
When I learned how to read (and since it took me until the third grade to figure it out -- I sort of went nuts:
* The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
* The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
* The Nancy Drew Mysteries
* The Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (also Ship Who Sang, Pegasus, Crystal Singer, Restoree, and basically everything she wrote)
* The Witches of Worm by Zeldia Keatley Snyder
* My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
* Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
* The Judy Blume books - specifically: Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, Blubber and Deenie.
* The Outsiders by SE Hinton
* The Dark is Rising novels by Susan Cooper
* Misty of Chinecotague by Marguerite Henry
* The Bridge to Teribetha by Katherine Patterson
* The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
* The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Quinn
* The Circle of Light Series by Neil Hancock
* Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander H. Key
* Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransom
* Agatha Christie's mysteries
* Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney Gothic Mystery/Romance Novels
* Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave and "Touch Not the Cat" ( which had two telepaths. I had a weakness for that sort of thing)
That takes me up to the age of 14. If I kept going it would be a long list.
It's pretty clear from that list, alone, that my favorite genre is sci-fi/fantasy, and I'm character driven. Also like adventure and mystery. Romance - but really only if it blends with the other free. But clearly my go-to genre is sci-fi/fantasy. Even as a small child - I liked fantasy.
(I was a child during the 1970s...can't you tell?)
What were your favorite books growing up? How did those influence your choice of a favorite genre when you got older?
I've always been into multiple genres.
When I was a small child, my favorites, which were read to me, were:
* The EB White books - Stuart Little, The Trumpeter Swan, and Charlotte's Web - which my father read to me.
* Ronadl Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and James and the Giant Peach - read to me by teachers at school.
* Laura Ingells Wilder's Little House on the Prairie Series read to me by my parents mostly.
* Various fairy tales, and the Disney Picture Book of Robin Hood, which I slept with, along with the other books. I brought books to bed with me and slept with them the way some children might sleep with stuff animals. (My niece also did this.)
* Ghost stories by various writers
When I learned how to read (and since it took me until the third grade to figure it out -- I sort of went nuts:
* The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
* The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
* The Nancy Drew Mysteries
* The Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (also Ship Who Sang, Pegasus, Crystal Singer, Restoree, and basically everything she wrote)
* The Witches of Worm by Zeldia Keatley Snyder
* My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
* Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
* The Judy Blume books - specifically: Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, Blubber and Deenie.
* The Outsiders by SE Hinton
* The Dark is Rising novels by Susan Cooper
* Misty of Chinecotague by Marguerite Henry
* The Bridge to Teribetha by Katherine Patterson
* The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
* The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Quinn
* The Circle of Light Series by Neil Hancock
* Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander H. Key
* Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransom
* Agatha Christie's mysteries
* Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney Gothic Mystery/Romance Novels
* Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave and "Touch Not the Cat" ( which had two telepaths. I had a weakness for that sort of thing)
That takes me up to the age of 14. If I kept going it would be a long list.
It's pretty clear from that list, alone, that my favorite genre is sci-fi/fantasy, and I'm character driven. Also like adventure and mystery. Romance - but really only if it blends with the other free. But clearly my go-to genre is sci-fi/fantasy. Even as a small child - I liked fantasy.
(I was a child during the 1970s...can't you tell?)
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Date: 2015-06-16 02:57 am (UTC)A couple decades earlier as a kid, I was reading mostly science, biography and history. I did read sci-fi, but didn't care for fantasy until I was an adult. I'm sure I read several of the famous things on your list years after you did. ;o)