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Heidi:
- "The Lord
of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Yeah, they're currently faddish, but have always been cult classics
and I first read them when I was about six. The Nazgul terrified me,
I wanted to marry Aragorn and live in the Shire, and I don't think I've
ever gotten over my absolute love of Tolkien's language and the world
he creates. It's one of the few books where I don't mind that there's
no really prominent female protagonist (it annoyed the bejeezus out
of me that the films have made Arwen into this sex goddess).
- Anything by Robin
McKinley
From the first time I read "Beauty" (a novelization/retelling of "Beauty
and the Beast") I thought, if I were to be an author, I'd want
to write like her, or like:
- Madeleine L'Engle
(also anything by her).
I started out with "A Wrinkle in Time" (a godsend of a GATE
sixth grade reading selection) and have progressed through all of the
sequels and corollaries, and finished her "Crosswicks Journals"
a couple of years ago. The latter are incredible, moving commentaries
on her life and the many tragedies and joys it has encompassed. When
I imagine myself in thirty years, I hope that I will have even a fraction
of the wisdom, compassion, and love (and ability to understand her own
negative emotions!) that she shows in these books.
- "Homesick,
My Own Story" by Jean whose-last-name-I've-forgotten
This was the first book I ever read by a fellow TCK (Third-Culture Kid)
and it was given to me by my magnificent fifth-grade teacher, who saw
in it a kindred spirit for a little girl feeling very lost and culturally
other in her classroom. The protagonist is a young girl who grows up
in China, but whose parents leave that country to return to the US...and
the struggles that she encounters thanks to culture shock and the lack
of understanding of those around her. It's a very bittersweet novel
and captures the sensation of what it is to realize how much you treasured
one country only after you have left it, perhaps forever.
- "The Chronicles
of Narnia"
by C. S. Lewis
These were a childhood favorite, but I've read them many times since
and still enjoy them.
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