An #AmReading ABC List
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The Literary ABCs
List your favorite . . .
Austen (Jane) novel: Persuasion
Brontë sister’s novel: Jane Eyre
Clancy or Crichton novel and/or movie: Jurassic Park (book & film adaptation)
Dickens novel and/or film: Bleak House (it’s the only one I’ve read through, and I love the 2006 miniseries adaptation)
English class you took: History of the English Language
Frequently read author: Currently, Julie Garwood (I’m re-reading her romance novels from the early 1990s)
Grisham novel and/or movie: Novel—The Rainmaker; film—A Time to Kill
Historical novel or era*: These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
*Written at a time well after that in which it’s set.
Iconic fictional character: Harry Potter
James Joyce or Henry James? Henry James—Turn of the Screw especially
King in literature (i.e., a character who’s a king, real or fictional): King Henry V of England (Shakespeare’s version)
Lord of the Rings character: Éomer
Movie made from classic literature: Persuasion 1995
Newberry Medal–winning book: Sarah, Plain and Tall (1986)
Oldest book you own (not necessarily “favorite,” just oldest): Best Loved Poems of the American People, © 1936
Pirate in literature: Tie: “El Salvador” and “Shaw” (Ransome’s Quest)
Quiet place to read: In bed
Robin Hood version (which film/TV series?): Disney’s animated version
Shakespeare play or poem: Much Ado about Nothing
Twain (Mark) novel/story/essay: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (short story)
USA Today Bestseller: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Villain: Voldemort
Walt Whitman or William Wordsworth? Whitman (Leaves of Grass is one of my favorite works of literature)
Xanthippe (an ill-tempered woman, a shrew): Lady Beatrice from Much Ado abuot Nothing
Yawn-inducing bedtime read: Something by Dickens
Zealously protected book you’ll never part with: Victoria by Willo Davis Roberts—I’ve had it since I was fourteen or fifteen, it was what really got me motivated to start writing, it’s taped together, and I haven’t read it in years, but I’ll never part with it.
