100 Book Challenge Meme
Apr. 7th, 2025 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
delphiThrowing my list in for the 100 Books Challenge meme:
Delphi's Formative Reading
As some other folks have noted on theirs, this isn't a rec list or endorsement of any of the authors or content, just a look back at books that shaped me personally or creatively—ones that made me think about myself or the world in different ways, ones that made me realize the possibilities of writing, and ones I just glommed onto. There's one or two there that I only read about ten years back, but for the most part these are books from my childhood, teens, and twenties. I limited authors to one book, going with the first one of theirs that made a deep impression.
If you give it a go, let me know how many you've read!
(I started by just trying to think of a hundred books I re-read in my youth, without factoring in any importance, but once the list came together, I looked it over and was like: Yeah...that tracks.)
Delphi's Formative Reading
As some other folks have noted on theirs, this isn't a rec list or endorsement of any of the authors or content, just a look back at books that shaped me personally or creatively—ones that made me think about myself or the world in different ways, ones that made me realize the possibilities of writing, and ones I just glommed onto. There's one or two there that I only read about ten years back, but for the most part these are books from my childhood, teens, and twenties. I limited authors to one book, going with the first one of theirs that made a deep impression.
If you give it a go, let me know how many you've read!
(I started by just trying to think of a hundred books I re-read in my youth, without factoring in any importance, but once the list came together, I looked it over and was like: Yeah...that tracks.)
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Date: 2025-04-10 05:17 pm (UTC)I think Enigma might have been the first book I actually took pains to track down when I was younger. I'd see it mentioned in Wizard and on lists of queer media, but my local book stores wouldn't order in graphic novels and my local comic book store wouldn't order in anything from Vertigo. I sent away for catalogues advertised in the backs of comics until I finally found it and then had to get my first money order to pay for it.