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I love books by erin hunter. I love to read and do when im off work.

I miss reading but I never have time to sit and read anymore :(

I love paranormal type stories like the Shiver Trilogy books by maggie stiefvater

@bluchrystals - Yes!!! My mom has it at her house to read to the grandbabies. It is hilarious! Haha! If you haven't yet seen the viral video of a Scottish grandmother reading that book for the first time, go look it up!

I'm in the middle of "The Horses Know" Trilogy. In the middle literally. I just started the second book of the series. I try to read three books per week so this Trilogy will take up my week this week. Don't know what I'll read next week, but I have about 1200 as of yet unread books on my to read list and about 200 of them already on my Kindle. I read almost anything that isn't Horror. Has anyone read Spirit Horses by Alan Evan's?

I am also a huge reader. I love almost every genre, as long as the author is either an artist with language or storycrafting.

Thanks to this post and my post, I have already gotten new input. For example, I had never heard about Wattpad before!

My two huge passions are fantasy and Russian classics. I LOVE everything Tolkien, and I also have had a lot of fun with Harry Potter. I have a confession to make, and that is that I have never read Narnia before, so that will be my winter reading.

I am also in love with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. First time I read The Brothers Karamasov, I could not leave it, and finished all the 1000+ pages in under four days, after reading almost day and night.

Poetry is something I enjoyed since childhood. Then, for many years I stopped reading it, but now it is becoming more and more important for me again. In my native Norwegian, I love Hans Børli and Arne Garborg's Haugtussa, an epic circle of poems that takes the reader through folklore, supernatural creatures like tussefolket, incredible descriptions of nature and its powers etc.

The Swedish Karin Boye and the Swedish-Finnish Edith Södergran are also favourites.
And I am always mesmerized by the strength of Anna Akhamtova.

At this moment I have two books next to me, waiting to be opened:

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, and Less by Andrew Sean Greer.

Since my life is changing again, I want to share with you a poem by Robert Frost, that has followed me during life:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Does anyone read non-fiction? What is your favourite?

Aaw <3 I can't wait to read it! Unfortunatly, the Narnia series is in my parent's home, and I am 3000 km away, so I must wait until the end of December. But I think it will be the perfect book for that time

And also Dune. Great Sci-fi is also so fun to read! And it is interesting how easier it is to touch difficult subjects when things are set in a world different from ours.

The Litany Against Fear has been my companion during many moments:

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

I really want to start a Christmas tradition with the tiny tyrant - people i know have said they do an "Advent Calendar" of books, and all month leading up to Christmas, they open a book each night & read it before bed. I was forever reading as a kid, and i really want to make sure the wee one learns how much there is to love about books!

OOH, i need to re-read Dune - i read it while i was pregnant, and pregnancy brain ate it...

@Crowned1 that does sound really interesting! I will Have to read it sometime!

@ConfluenceStable oh my gosh I LOVE the Dragonriders of Pern series(mythology, dragons, unicorns etc. I love it all)!

@BlackBloodlines, I've read Beauty and I've also read Eragon.

Books are my escape from life - during my childhood (which was not great) I always had my nose in a book. I used to check the wardrobe occasionally to see if I could get into Narnia!

I also love the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey - I want to live in a Weyr and eat roast wherry!

I used to read all the great science fiction writers (mainly American) like Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, Doc Smith and Clarke. These days I like well written historical fiction and also some fantasy novels. If you've not read Katharine Kerr's Deverry series I can highly recommend it.

@Kintara, I read so much when I was a kid that I made a rolodex to save my favorites. It included the author, title, and how many pages the book was. Only problem was I lost it when I moved.

A couple friends of mine are authors in the sci-fi/fantasy genre. RA MacAvoy has some excellent published works, of which my favorite is The Grey Horse; her most famous work is Tea With the Black Dragon. Then there is Jen Pretty who is just starting her career and has several novels that are interesting new takes on several fantasy themes. She has been doing a lot of free ebook promotions so I recommend watching her for some free books.