Member: LiddyGally

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Favorite authorsVerily Anderson, Maeve Binchy, Enid Blyton, Meg Cabot, Julie Campbell, Agatha Christie, Robert Cormier, Diana Gabaldon, Jane Gardam, Maurice Gee, Elizabeth George, Caroline Graham, Robin Hobb, Nick Hornby, Diana Wynne Jones, M. M. Kaye, Carolyn Keene, Ruth Manning-Sanders, Melina Marchetta, Robin McKinley, Kathleen O'Farrell, Katherine L Oldmeadow, Elizabeth Peters, Elizabeth Marie Pope, Terry Pratchett, Nancy Springer, Mary Stewart, Amy Tan, Rosalind Wiseman (Shared favorites)

About meThough most of my life I seem to have lived to read, I find I'm becoming increasingly fussier. I give up reading books all the time and cannot stand cliched plotlines or circumstances, or books that seem to bow readers' romantic sentiments or ideals. A villain doesn't necessarily have to be dark and enigmatic and too cool for words. Lovers don't have to be perfect and amazingly heroic to boot... If I feel I'm being too much led to believe in the author's own fantasies, I don't much like it. Sometimes it seems to be a question of the writer falling in love with their own creations. I've explained that so badly and must sound like I hate most books. I don't. Every reader their book, and every book their reader. No book or story is ever wasted unless untold.

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Currently readingEarthfasts by William Mayne
Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 2) by Robin Hobb
Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Silversword by Phyllis A. Whitney