Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Bookish People I'd Like to Meet

I stuck with just authors on today's Top 10 from The Broke & The Bookish, I didn't want to be all weird and stalkery naming bloggers lol. So here are my Top 10 (Author) Bookish People I'd Like to Meet (Alive or Dead-but not Zombie Dead):

1. JK Rowling --uh, duh. :) I could listen to her talk about Hogwarts & Harry Potter all day. I'd also like to hear how she's dealing with the huge amount of fame she came into so quickly.

2. Neil Gaiman --I follow him on Twitter and he's really funny and interesting. Plus he has really cool hair. (Pic from his twitter here)

3. Ann M Martin --another duh, for me anyway. We could discuss all the inaccuracies in the BSC books and whether Claudia was actually color-blind and where she really sees the BSC members now.

4. John Steinbeck --I kind of surprised myself with this one, but after my Summer of Steinbeck, I would really love to talk with him and hear more stories about Monterey and just anything really.

5. VC Andrews --the queen of incestual (I think I just made up that word, but oh well) romances, even 26 years after her death. I wonder how she would feel about that, knowing these people are cashing in on her name still and if she really intended to write every single book about a brother and sister hooking up in an attic lol.

6. Terry Moore --Strangers in Paradise is one of my very favorite graphic novels and I would looooove to discuss Katchoo and Francine with him. I'm also currently reading Echo and have Rachel Rising on my to-buy, plus he's done stuff with Runaways, Fables, and Buffy so Terry Moore is one of my favorite authors too, I guess! :)

7. Piers Anthony --As the creator of Xanth, I'm sure he is a super creative guy and lots of fun to be around (once you get past all the puns lol). I've read his bios and he seems like a genuinely nice guy too.

8. Christopher Pike --I would like to watch Disney movies with him. I think he would enjoy that lol. No one likes to be scared all the time, right?

9. Maurice Sendak --Wouldn't it be the best thing ever to have Sendak read you a bedtime story? I think so.

10.Haruki Murakami --I would ask him all the unanswered questions I still have after reading 1Q84 nearly 4 months ago!

10 comments:

  1. I had Caroline B Cooney on my list (I thought about using all my favorite teen horror authors, but that would have taken up all of my list! So I had to limit myself to just one), but Christopher Pike was definitely a frontrunner for the list!
    I considered Piers Anthony, as well. I just wonder how he puts out the volume of work that he does! Does he type in his sleep? :D

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    1. I probably could have added 4 or 5 more from my teens too, but I limited myself. I don't think Piers Anthony sleeps at all lol...and thanks for stopping by! :)

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  2. Gaiman and Sendak would make for some interesting conversations, I think! I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees VC Andrews mostly as an author of stories featuring a lot of incest....*shiver*....lovely list, as always :)

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    1. Oh, Gaiman & Sendak at a dinner party would be fabulous! They seem kind of similar.
      Oh yeah, I used to devour VC Andrews' books, but I tried reading Flowers in the Attic recently and it was just awful. Not the writing necessarily, but the content. ugh.

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  3. I forgot about Ann M Martin! I'd love to talk to her about the BSC and what the members are all doing. Great llist!

    My Top Ten

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    1. Wouldn't that be fun? Thanks for stopping by! :)

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  4. I have to agree. I would love for Maurice Sendak to read me a bedtime story. And definitely Christopher Pike. Would love to meet him. Great list! :D

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  5. Ann M. Martin totally came to my town for a book signing when I was young and I HAD TO MISS IT. I was SO upset. I should have put her on my list. Oh, no. (I did get one of the extra signed books, but it was so not the same.)

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    1. Oh, that is so sad! :( I wonder if she is still doing book signings...

      Thanks for stopping by!

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