R is for Reading
Unsurprisingly, the letter R stands for reading in my world. I’ve been an avid reader for as long as I can remember. As a kid, while I was social and happy-go-lucky, we lived pretty far away from many other kids, so I had to keep myself entertained somehow. And it was Minnesota. Where winter lasts 6 months.
So I’m a reader. I can read until all hours of the night (well, morning, rather.) I can read almost anytime, with the sole exception of when I’m riding in a car. I can’t even read a map when I’m riding in a car (although, interestingly enough, I CAN read a map when I’m driving the car…) I can read things from many genres of literature. I read fiction, non-fiction, adult fiction, YA fiction, picture books, and just about everything in-between.
My recent reads are in my LibraryThing library - you can browse through it to see what I’ve been reading for the past few years, how I rate those books, and how I mentallly organize them with tags.
But there are books I read before I started tracking them on LibraryThing - books that really influenced me, or touched me, or that I read over and over and over again. Most of these, as you’ll see, share a YA orientation. They’re still amazing books.
- Anne of Green Gables (and everything else by L.M. Montgomery)
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (and all of his poetry books too)
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
What are your favorites? Share in the comments, or with a link to your Bibliophil or LibraryThing catalog.
By Tired Tunia, 5/3/2006 @ 9:01 pm
Wish I had one of those LibraryThingamajiggers, but I just don’t have the energy to get one started! Got here via Tiny Little Librarian, and I saw that your top two books are MY top two as well! I read and reread every LM Montgomery book from the age of 12 to my current age of 33. I actually like Emily of New Moon series better than Anne, but of course love Anne as well. My 4 year old daughter came very close to being named Emily Anne…Have you read the journals of LM Montgomery? They are pretty interesting too, I haven’t finished the 4th one yet. And Watership Down is my 2nd all time favorite book! And I’m a feminist, a librarian, a blogger, and hey, my best friend lives in Philly! Ok, I don’t knit. So you’re not my long-lost twin sister. Like your site.
By Sim Thadani, 5/3/2006 @ 10:21 pm
eek megan eek eek eek… you just made my day with this librarything thing!! i’ve been thinking for ages that there should totally be a service that you can use to rate/catalog books… i love it!!
oh, le sigh, i am such a nerd.
By katie, 5/5/2006 @ 4:27 pm
you’re cute. r is for reading for me, too. and b would be for books. so. it would make it twice on my list, at least. mmmm, the smell of books.
By shel, 5/16/2006 @ 4:55 pm
my faves include: pride and prejudice, treasure island, and a little princess. i know. i’m warped.
By Sara, 5/22/2006 @ 4:08 pm
Great blog!
The Little Prince is a lovely book.