"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at "The Broke and the Bookish". Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.
May 12: Ten Authors I REALLY Want To Meet
There is one author I would love to meet but I know that is no longer possible because she's been dead for two centuries. However, I just have to mention her. It's (of course) Jane Austen. I love her books, I love her writing, I love her characters, I love the locations, I love her country. Would be fantastic if I could talk to her. But there are so many authors that would be great to meet, as well, alive and still writing. So, here is my list (in alphabetical order because I really really couldn't put them in order of which one I'd love to meet most and which one least, they are all favourites):
Isabel Allende
Bill Bryson
Charles Frazier
Amitav Ghosh
David Guterson
Barbara Kingsolver
Wally Lamb
Joyce Carol Oates
Orhan Pamuk
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Jane Smiley
Of course, I wouldn't mind many many more but at least I could keep it to ten this time. ;)
And then there is one whom I have met and he is the nicest guy ever:
Jim Forest
I absolutely love that you chose Jane Smiley because she's such an amazing writer and she seems like a pretty great person.
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Thank you very much, Christine. I have loved everything I read from her, even try to read my way through her book list in 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. So, yes, it would be fantastic to meet her.
DeleteThank you for posting your link, as well. Will go over there and check it out.
Happy Reading,
Marianne
great list! I very much would have liked meeting them, too
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, Mrs. Calloway. I will have to go and see whether you posted a list, as well.
DeleteHave a good day,
Marianne
Good list of authors!! I forgot about including Barbara Kingsolver to my TTT post this week.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to my TTT post for this week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2015/05/top-ten-tuesday-ten-authors-i-really.html
Thank you so much, I think we all would have had no problems at all coming up with 10 more authors. I have listed mostly authors of whom I have read several books.
DeleteThank you for your link, I will go and check it out.
Take care,
Marianne
I put some "meet them in the afterlife" authors on my list too... :) Isabel Allende! Such an elegant author.
ReplyDeleteCheers from a TTT newbie! :)
@TarkabarkaHolgy from
Multicolored Diary
That is a good idea. I might have changed my list - or made a second one if I'd thought about that. Oh, the possibilities. Brilliant.
DeleteI already said to Mrs. Calloway ^^ how nice to meet another European blogger whose first language isn't English and here you are the second one. How lovely. Will definitely go and visit your page. Thanks for the list and
happy reading.
Marianne
I do not recognized any of the authors except for Jane Austen. I will be looking them up. I may find a new favorite author.
ReplyDeleteSome of them have been around for a while but a lot of them are from all sorts of countries, so they might not be known as much in your part of the world.
DeleteYou can click on any of the names in my post and get to the books that I read written by those authors. I do hope you find a good new writer this way. :)
Happy Reading,
Marianne