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#7books to know me but seven is a way to small number really.
1. The Riddlemaster of Hed by Patricia A McKillip
2. Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter
3. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
4. Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson
5. Trollvinter (Moominland Midwinter) by Tove Jansson
6. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
7. Freedom & Necessity by Steven Brust and Emma Bull
1. Riddlemaster is what I call "my Lord of the Rings", because while I had been a science fiction fan my entire life, this book is what made me fall in love with fantasy.
(I bounced of Tolkien pretty hard.)
2. Angela Carter's short fiction is what makes me want to write and dedicate hours at getting better. Because fucking hell, her use of language is amazing.
3. Also great languagewise, more dense but just as precise in word choices is Gormenghast. Reading Peake out loud is a treat. (Or a threat because I'm not good at reading aloud.)
4. I studied cultural geography for two semesters in Uppsala, and I wish I had studied that more and it not been in the middle of a huge depression.
Cities are cool, and I say this as a very rural person. And imaginary cities are even cooler.
5. In team Astrid LIndgren vs team Tove Jansson, I'm with Tove any day of the week. And Moomins in snowy landscapes makes me hear the snow crunchy creak when reading the prose.
6. I'm a typography geek. Started when I was... 14 on the Amiga and I was terrible. Then I used what I learned to make fanzines that were immensely — if I may say so myself — readable. I've used this book even when doing web design. The section on page sizes as musical theory? Gold.
7. Magic realism epistolary set to working-class struggles in the 1800s? Yeah
