Proust #27 Who are your favourite writers?
Bibliophile – a person who loves books. This is me.
In a previous post, I mentioned how books were a refuge for me when I was young and how my love of reading started very early. The first assumptions by adults were that I had just memorized the books that had been read to me, but no, my memory has never been that good. I could read. And I LOVED it!!
I was the child who would read under the covers by flashlight long after I had been told to go to sleep, because how could I possibly go to sleep when my hero was still in danger? When I was told I needed to go outside and get some fresh air, I went, but my book went with me. I would sit and read until I was allowed to come back inside and then I would read some more.
I read while we travelled, while I bathed, while I rode the school bus, while I vacuumed…always with a book in my hand. In school, I would read with my novel tucked inside my desk so my teacher couldn’t see it. Occasionally I got caught. I still did it. Heaven for me was the Scholastic book fair and the MS Read-a-thon (Imagine someone paying me to read books! I didn’t even care that I didn’t get to keep the money.)
I love the feel of a brand new book in my hands. I love the feel of a well-read, much loved, tattered second-hand book.
I love the anticipation of opening the cover and immersing myself in a new world, meeting new characters, loving them or hating them.
I love the promise of adventure, of romance, of mystery, of terror, of wonder that a book holds.
So who are my favourite writers? I guess I should probably answer that question huh?
I love writers who make me disappear inside the pages of their creation. I love writers who create worlds with their words that I want to return to again and again. I love writers who make me laugh out loud, who make me silently weep as I turn page after page. I love writers who change my mind, my heart, my world, one word at a time.
I’ve started a list but I had to stop because I could go on and on. So if you love to read and you’re looking for a good read for yourself or to share with your kids or partner, try some of these on for size. I’ve loved them all!
- Robert Ruark “The Old Man and the Boy”
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings “The Yearling”
- C.S. Lewis “The Chronicles of Narnia series”
- J.R.R. Tolkien “The Hobbit”
- Jojo Moyes “Me Before You”
- Francine Rivers “The Mark of the Lion series” “The Last Sin Eater”
- Douglas Preston “The Pendergast series”
- Jeffrey Deaver “The Bone Collector”
- Farley Mowat “Lost in the Barrens”
- Piers Anthony “The Incarnations of Immortality series”
- Patrick Taylor “The Irish Country Doctor series”
- Jeffrey Archer – every single book he’s written including his collections of short stories
- Gary Paulsen “Harris and Me”
