Books You Read Repeatedly, Etc.!

So, I was sniffing around ebay & amazon to see if I could find signed hardback copies of any of my favorite books, as I do periodically…and managed to find one! I was so happy and lucky-feeling, I went off to Robin McKinley’s website to see if she’d randomly decided to stop hating book signing tours(ah, my foolish hopes)…since she’s got two fairly new books out right now (Chalice & Dragonhaven).

Not gonna happen. =| I read her FAQ, and she basically said she’d done it once – never again. Apparently it was horrible. >.>; I’m sure I can’t imagine, but…how depressing. I guess it’s selfish of me to want her to tour (since it’s obviously a trial beyond mortal comprehension), but I’d dearly love to have my copy of Beauty signed. It’s been one of my favorite books since I was a kid, and will always have a spot on my bookshelf (and that’s saying a lot, because there isn’t much room there! Only the best are allowed to stay!). SOoo…I went over and peeped at her blog, and she’s flipping out because her dogs have diarrhea and the vet isn’t being particularly helpful. Oh, and she’s kinda computer-phobic, from what I can tell (she calls computer repairmen quite often), and so was also “O noes, the Computer Men are coming again~”. o.o; Oh, and she might have a cavity. x_X

And now I am pouting, because I’m too afraid to even email her (and probably will be still, even when she’s in a better mood – ‘famous’ people that I like the work of intimidate me) to ask if she’d sign it if I sent it to her with postage back to me. Is that a rude thing to do? I’m not sure if authors or other famous people go for that…I’ve never done it before, but I heard one of the Beatles recently told people to stop sending him stuff…peace and love, but leave him alone! XD So oh well. I’m certainly not paying $170 for the copy signed to another person (someone named Brownie, heh) that’s up for sale on Amazon Marketplace…and it’s in nowhere near as good condition as my copy, anyways. 9.9;; Stained? Bleh, no thanks.

But enough with my whining. =) I’m pretty sure most of us here are avid readers…do you have favorite books that you read repeatedly? Those are the ones that I keep out on my bookshelves.

The ones I can think of off the top of my head are “A Girl of the Limberlost”, by Gene Stratton-Porter, “Archangel” and “Summers at Castle Auburn” by Sharon Shinn, the “Queen’s Own” trilogy by Mercedes Lackey (although I adore all of the Valdemar-verse books, these are my favorites, and the first ones I read), and “The Dark Is Rising” sequence, by Susan Cooper. ( Speaking of which, I was horrified by that abominable movie version that was so off they couldn’t even call it ‘The Dark is Rising’. >__>; It saddened me to see something I’d always hoped to see in movie form so screwed up. It COULD have been good. I will never understand what they were thinking. ) There’s also “Beauty”, of course, and “Threshold” by Sara Douglass. A few by Anne McCaffrey – “Dragonsong”, “Dragonsinger”, “The Rowan”, “The Ship Who Sang”, and “The Ship Who Searched”. Ooh, and I almost forgot The Belgariad and The Mallorean, by David Eddings.

I’ve read all of those more than once, and loved them every time. I’m not sure if there’s anything common to all of them that makes me like them. o.o

You? =D

Haha, I remember that now. XD Ah, I hope it snows here this year (but NO ICE PLZ). I’ll make one like that and freak out the neighbors. Do you remember the Tiger Motto that Hobbes made Calvin say to get into the treehouse?

Tigers are strong, tigers are fierce, tigers have teeth and claws that pierce! XD

Also, I will give emailing her some more thought. >.>; But not right now. I’ll have to keep an eye on her blog and hope her life calms down, first. Skeery~