Memes! 10 book an777 WiP

[mab]

1. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
2. Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
3. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
4. The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
5. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrolI
6. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joanne Greenberg
7. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine l'Engle
8. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
9. Hanged at Auschwitz by Sam Kessel
10. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding



He takes a breath and lets it out. It feels good to get this off his chest. To just tell it like it is instead of having to tiptoe on eggshells so as not to step on any toes.

Rolf nods and offers him a cup of tea, then takes one himself. He rocks back in his chair, and replaces the teapot and wheels back in front of Harry. "Go on. Anything else about work? How are things at home?"

Harry sips his tea. It's good. Something herbal, natural, a bit slick. "This is good. What's in it?" He's stalling and he knows it. And he knows Rolf knows he knows it too.

I tag writcraft and emansil_12

Don't feel obligated to participate. I'm on my phone so I'm posting and then coming back to edit in the rules.

Comments

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, love the blurb! Is this the harrybang we've been told about? :-)

Wrinkle in Time!!!! <3

[mab.livejournal.com]

It is! Of course the 7th paragraph of the 7th page had to fall in a rather boring section. :P But I am really excited by the feedback I'm getting from my first readers and am gearing up to start revisions in about a week.

I have to take some time away from it so I'll see my bang through fresh eyes and hopefully it won't be so painful to have to cut parts out or rework problem areas.

[drarryxlover.livejournal.com]

Ooo I love Lord of the Flies!

Is this from your Harry bigbang? Even if it's not, it's so intriguing.

[mab.livejournal.com]

I love all these books, but yeah, Lord of the Flies is one of those books I read when I was young and it just stuck fast in my psyche.

It is a bit of my Harry Bang! I'm very excited to see all the progress being made by the other bangers too!

[candamira.livejournal.com]

High Five for Percy Jackson and Vampire Chronicles! And nice your choice for 777WIP :D.

[mab.livejournal.com]

*high fives*

I was an Anne Rice Vampire girl before Harry Potter even came out. A friend from school and I used to dress as vampires ala Anne Rice and draw blue veins on our faces with colored pencils. I think I may have a photo of us that another friend took for her photography class.







We were odd kids. I think we started copying pages from the Vampire Lestat onto parchment with burned edges using quills and our own blood for ink. >.

[writcraft]

Love the extract from the fic, and thanks for tagging me, special snowflake that I am :P

Awesome list. Lord of the Flies. God. That book. I absolutely LOVE that book. I actually like every single one on your list <3

[mab.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Have you read Sam Kessel's book? I haven't met many people who have. My step father was a high school history teacher for 30+ years and he put me onto it when I was in a self-study of World War II phase of life.

It was odd. I was likely 11 or 12 and going to the library once a week to stock up on books to read over the summer. I alternated between reading historical biographies of WWII survivors and Stephen King novels.

[gracerene]

I'm reading the Percy Jackson books right now (just finished book 2 a few days ago) and I'm really enjoying it so far!

And I'm quite intrigued by your snippet!

[mab.livejournal.com]

Oh! The Percy Jackson books hooked me just like the Harry Potter ones did! Keep reading them! I am on tenterhooks waiting for the final book from the Heroes of Olympus series to come out. NEXT MONTH!!!

[anemonen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember I watched a tv adaption of "The Secret Garden" when I was little, and I was completely blown away. I loved the thought of a forgotten old, beautiful garden that no one else knew about.
And Alice in Wonderland is so delightfully weird. I really like that one. Don't know many of the others except for the obvious. Thanks for sharing your list :)

[mab.livejournal.com]

If the tv adaptation was the one done by Hallmark Hall of Fame, that is my favorite adaptation. Derek Jacobi and Barrett Oliver. Though I also really enjoyed the movie version that came out with Maggie Smith as Mrs Medlock.

I was introduced to the Secret Garden, the book by my fourth grade teacher. He gifted each member of the class with our own paperback of it and then read it aloud to us. I still have that damn paperback, though it now looks as though it belongs in a bin. I've reread the book at least once a year for the past 20 or so.

Alice in Wonderland, yes... another silly little thing that titillates my love of words and the dreamlike wonder of youth.

[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

Is that, perchance, the prostate milking business? Because yay Rolf!

[mab.livejournal.com]

hahaha!

No. That snippet occurs well before Harry discovers the pleasure of his prostate.

[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

No I meant from that fic. But all around yay! I cannot wait til January. Everyone's sound amazing so far.

[emansil-12.livejournal.com]

The Percy Jackson books are great!!! I've read the first three, maybe four, and loved them. I've not read any of the other Gods series from him, have you?


The Wrinkle in Time was amazing. It could easily have made it into my list. I was only allowed ten so it had to be left out along with quite a few others.

I'm also fond of Secret Garden, and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.


Your writing meme is lovely as well. I'm curious as to know what Harry is stalling about. I bet it has something to do with Draco.

[mab.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I missed answering this comment.

I haven't read the Egyptian gods series by him, but my daughter has and she loves them. We went and saw him speak in person a couple of years ago. Got an autographed copy of one of his books. He's a very nice guy IRL.


hehehe... you'll have to wait for January to find out what secrets Harry's been keeping! But it will SO be worth the wait!

[josephinestone.livejournal.com]

I was obsessed with the movie The Secret Garden for years, but I have still not read the book. I think it was the first movie I owned and I watched it everyday. A lot of these I actually haven't read. I just read Alice in Wonderland last year to my kids before bed.

[mab.livejournal.com]

I really recommend reading the Secret Garden to your kids. Maybe when they're 6-9ish... It's a lovely book!

Hooray for Alice in Wonderland! Peter Pan is another book my kids adored at that age when I read it to them.