mhuzzell | Book Meme, Day 13 – Your favorite writer

Day 13 – Your favorite writer

As seems to be the case with most of my answers, I'm not sure I really have one. I like a lot of different authors a lot, and there are certainly some I could name as favourites in particular areas. David Foster Wallace has my favourite prose style. Katharine Kerr does my favourite world-building. Joseph Heller provided my favourite neologism / metaphor for my frequent angst. &c. But an overall favourite? That is tough.

I mean, should this be the person whose work I have most consistently enjoyed (the oft-mentioned David Whiteland), or the author of the book I like the most? And if the latter, how on earth do I pick from my full two-hands-ful of favourite books to select a favourite author? Well, I think I might have a guess. I'm gonna say: John Steinbeck. Even though I don't love, or even like, all the things of his I've read -- and, he having been so prolific, haven't read even close to everything he wrote -- but because:

a) He's the only author who has written more than one (fully two) of the books I consistently name when asked to list my favourite books

b) Looking ahead in the meme, those are going to be the books I'll want to name as answers to later questions, for consistency's sake. Because apparently I care about intra-meme consistency now.

Upcoming Days
Day 14 – Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 - Your favorite book of all time

In non-book-meme news, it seems to have become autumn now. The festivals are over, Edinburgh is breathing a collective sigh of relief, the previously-mentioned buddlejas have retreated their pretty purple blossoms from their long brown fingers that poke (now ominously once more) over the walls of abandoned lots, and the weather has turned cold again. Not cold-cold, to be fair, but pretty damn nippy. And it is still August, at least for the rest of today. WTF, Scotland?

There are some ways in which central NC weather and east-coast lowland Scotland weather are not that different. In both cases, winter is short and changeable and generally only lasts from December to January. Autumn stays autumnal well through November, and the winter breaks and things start blooming in February. However, while NC summer lasts from about March through October, Scottish summer lasts from about July to July (if that). Just a long long spring and a long long autumn. Some years, the winter's so mild and the summer's so cool that it feels like the years just fade from spring to autumn and back again.

... I have more Thoughts about the weather, but I have to go to work -- lucky you!