My first meme, ooh!

[cactuswatcher]

Ganked from shadowkat67

Hope s'kat won't mind if I abbreviate a bit!

Of books you've read in the past ten years name five in each category that have stuck with you. You can list series as one book.
A Sci-fi /Fantasy - I love sci-fi, but now that I've started writing it, I really don't want to accidentally steal someone else's ideas so I haven't read any in a long while. The last recent piece of any quality I tried to read was Grass, but couldn't get through it. Fantasy has become so cookie-cutter I don't much care for it any more.

B Mystery - The Cadfael Series by Ellis Peters/Edith Pargeter is about the only one that's stuck with me. She really spent a good deal of time studying the era and it shows. The troubled times and the way she portrats the sensibilities of the times are fascinating.

C General - I love Alison Weir's histories, Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Six Wvies of Henry VIII, The Wars of the Roses
It's more of a reference than something to read, but Mike Ashley's The Mammoth Book of Brittish King's and Queens, which has come out in a number of different forms in the past few years.
It's been more than 10 years since I first read it, but my all-time favorite history Leonard Mosley's On Borrowed Time: about how peace was frittered away in the last few months before WWII.

D Comic Books - I've never enjoyed reading serious comic books, even when I was a kid.

E What are you favorite Sci-fi/Fantasy series
1 Bufffy
2 Babylon 5 (first four seasons)
3 Star Trek: Next Gen
4 Xena
5 Angel

F Write your own question:
Do you wirte seriously? If so what?
I wanted to write serious science fiction, but I've found it much more fun to wirte sci-fi adventure/sci-fi mystery.

Comments

Re: Oops

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I can understand the squickness of that! Like I said, maybe a woman's writer...But actually, it turns out that the feeling she has is something else entirely (of course).