Watch me try not to fall over myself in fannish glee

[kfabian]

All go here!

I have a twitter account: krfabian!

I also have six rejections, two stories under consideration (my superhero romance for Samhain's anthology and a little something about covering mirrors), and a copy of Keith Hartman's new novella for review purposes!

Keith Hartman is the author of the first ever queer sci fi I read -- The Gumshoe, The Witch and The Virtual Corpse -- which is, now I come to think of it, one of only eight books that have moved with me everywhere I've lived in the last ten years.

Do you have any books like that? The ones that follow you wherever you go, without which your bookshelf just doesn't look right.

Mine are Douglas Adams' The Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; Keith Hartman's The Gumshoe, The Witch and The Virtual Corpse; its sequel, Gumshoe Gorilla; Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens; selected works of WH Auden; MM Kaye's The Ordinary Princess; Paul Krugman's The Accidental Theorist; George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Comments

[jekesta]

I have a few books like that. I would find it very weird to live in a house without the Mars Trilogy in it, or Catch 22. I have some books I don't really remember that well or like that much, but I remember loving them so intensely that I couldn't really not have them near me just because they were so important for a moment.

[kfabian]

Absolutely! If I were to pick the ten books I want with me for re/reading over the next few years, it would be a rather different list, but just for having and keeping me company, those are the books I'd feel incomplete without.

[gool_duck]

I was thinking I don't really have books like that at the moment - which is true and not-true:
True because I moved and left the bookshelves at my parents' place loaded with my books.
Not-true because I knew there'd be a full set of Discworld books here, and I bought a copy of Alice in Wonderland soon after moving -- that was my favourite book for many years.

[skygiants]

Howl's Moving Castle, The Homeward Bounders, Tam Lin and Les Mis followed me back and forth to school for all four years (and one or two of them barely survived the process, but, uh.) There are a few others too, but I can't remember what they are right now.

[kfabian]

Oh, Alice in Wonderland! <3

There are a number of books I had to leave behind on my most recent move that I'm planning on rebuying at some point soon. I'm always surprised by how unpleasant it is to be without my favourite books.

[kfabian]

I am halfway through the second volume of my (two volume, English translation) copy of Les Mis, and have been for an embarrassingly long time. I did have a ball reading it, so I'm really not sure why I've never got round to finishing it.

(And, oh, The Homeward Bounders! I thought I'd never heard of it, but a quick google reminds me that I had a copy when I was young that I read and reread until the spine gave out.)