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I'm in, Michele! Thanks for distracting me from pre-Cybils day!!

Heh! No problem Kelly ! I'll come over and see which ten you've posted !

I must figure out my list. But LOTR and Prisoner of Azkaban will be on it, for sure.

Favorite Novels: (alphabetical by author)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Body Bags by Christopher Golden
The Boys are Back in Town by Christopher Golden
Innocence by Jane Mendelsohn
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Kelly F, you're a woman of taste !

Little willow, I like your inclusion of Norton Juster !

You chose "Goblet of Fire" over "Prisoner of Azkaban"? Tsk... ;-D

Your list is vastly more erudite than mine - of course ! Mind you, I could have listed at least another 5 - and I didn't even get started on the "classics", Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen et al ! Hmm - perhaps I'll do a reprise at the weekend ?

I know, I really do prefer Goblet of Fire. I understand that, structurally, Azkaban is a better book. But there's something about "Goblet of Fire" I love.

This list is always subject to reprise. 10 books is hard! I was actually surprised at how quickly I came to this list, though.

I know - I raced through the ten (actually hit 11 before I went back and counted !)

I'll forgive your choice of "Goblet" - since we're friends... :wink:

Thanks a million, Michele ;)

Okay, things to do before 2 p.m.:

--call all the publishers on your list;
--read the draft of the results post to make sure you like it;
--call me when you're done and noodge me to move the posting time up;
--write a post for Thursday;
--translate the list into Russian;
--refill your coffee 47 times.

Hi Anne:

Sounds like I'll need that coffee :)

I'm so excited!!

Just saw you are listening to Outlander. I have the book. It will be a summer read.

Oooh, you included Pale Fire! I love that book, but it's one of those that people seem to either love or hate. No middle-of-the-roaders there.

I agree about Goblet of Fire. I was shocked to find out how many people liked Prizoner of Azkaban the most -- at the time I read it, I liked it the least. I've gotten more fond of it since, but there's still something about it that hangs me up.

That's intriguing Nancy, that you disliked "Prisoner" so much...

Coffee, Kelly? :grins:

Boy, I'm going to need that coffee, Michele! I'm thinking I'll start drinking it now at midnight in preparation for tomorrow.

And, I have to say, that I'm with Nancy. There's something about Azkaban that I never fully related to. It may be that father-son thing. Again, structurally, I found it her best novel. But...I found Goblet of Fire her warmest novel.

Oh, and Nancy, re: Pale Fire. My thoughts on this one is that you have to be the type of person that finds some literary criticism to be total bs.

That's the beauty and hilarity of Pale Fire. The criticism takes over and becomes something completely unrelated to the original work of art.

Well I hope you survived the coffee intake - congrats on publishing the CYBILS winners early - now I can go to bed !

Kelly, I think you've hit it dead-on with Pale Fire. I was a Lit/English major in college and grad school, surrounded by people far more intellectual than myself, and I absolutely found a lot of literary criticism to be total bs. And knowing the professor who first asked me to read Pale Fire, I'm betting he felt the same.

I think my favorite moment in Pale Fire is when the critic goes on and on for several pages of discussion on one line of the poem, and then, when you go back to the poem, there's another note on the next word (which is "and" or "then" or something equally non-noteworthy) just to allow the critic to keep going in his monologue. It probably happened more than once, but I remember that first time I saw it, and how completely I surrendered to the insanity at that moment.