#JohnDiggleforMayor

1. You Get Obsessive In The Wrong Ways: You can’t take the sky from me, I swear just give me a couple decades and an old USSR Reactor, and I could get a Firefly working, I promise!

PEI is the best. Also so many Japanese tourists! There were like five Japanese weddings at Green Gables when we went there one summer, apparently AoGG is insanely popular over there!

The wit and whimsy of this book are absolutely fantastic. I will never tire of it. I mean, Conclusions is an island which you can jump to.

Calvin & Hobbes!

The Monster at the end of this Book!

I remember loving this as a kid because her magic really made sense on a gut level. It wasn’t ‘wave a wand and say some words, and a thing happens’; she had to learn to exert her will and think in certain patterns.

I read a lot of “adult” sci-fi starting around age nine or so. I used to reread Sphere by Michael Crichton a lot.

I’ve re-read all the Tintin but these two more.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. It’s the perfect answer to the age old complaint of “I’m bored.” Been trying to get the kids to read it but there aren’t enough explosions. I’ll have to read it to them.

Anne of Green Gables. I wore that book out as well as the subsequent volumes. There is something comforting about the stories and the characters - they are so real and funny and imperfect. Plus, the descriptions of the locations are so perfect, I feel transported when I read them. I’ve loved them for years and re-read…

Really, any of Tamora Pierce’s books. But this one was my first real fantasy novel, and it was what got me ravenously reading anything I could get my hands on as a young teenager. I reread them every few years, probably. They’re old friends.

I don’t reread often, but The Chronicles of Narnia series, especially this entry, I still find as charming as I did reading them as a kid.

Damn, I was coming here to say this. Sold into slavery, destroys the kingdom she’s sold to. Sasses cranky gods.

I’ll second that one, for sheer cold bloodedness

All of Tamora Pierce’s characters qualify but I feel Aly qualifies the most. Daughter of a spy master, she through convoluted circumstances becomes the brilliant spymaster of a rebellion in another country.

I’m just throwing this out there to get it out of the way.

Seems a bit like a red Harrington. Er, herring.