Other things I read as a kid/teen I remember really well: His Dark Elements series was the shit Streams of Babbel was how I discovered my plague phobia The Black Tattoo was a book I really enjoyed despite it basically being a Western anime in novel form Did anyone read the Power of Five because I'm pretty sure that's the only series where I found the villain's plans legitimately scary
-aliens ate my homework -sisters grimm -nancy drew -secret series -last dragon chronicles -magic treehouse -39 clues
Ohhh my god nostalgia. Ok, hm, I definitely read the original 7 Deltora books, and some of the later ones. Read some of the warrior cats books, plus guardians of gahoole... and series of unfortunate events, I really need to reread that. Oh man Percy Jackson was great though.
My nostalgia series were Redwall and the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. I read Deltora Quest for a bit and then suddenly developed a hate-on for them that's kind of inexplicable to me now (little me was really judgemental and would suddenly decide she hated things she'd previously had no problem with).
Oh man, I hadn't thought about Bruce Coville in forever. I read a ton of his books when I was in elementary school.
ENCHANTED FOREST WAS MY JAM. Also the Unicorns of Balinor! There was another series, which involved someone's grandma secretly being a unicorn and also a time traveler? And she'd had to go to the Magical Realm to fix things and try and save her grandma from the great evils? I have a vivid memory of the book cover, but I couldn't tell you the actual name of the book for the life of me.
i got to meet him this year!!!! he was so nice and he sent me a pdf of one of his books for free because it's out of print and he wants people to be able to read it!! and i got to talk with him and some librarians for a while and they gave me a massive list of book recs i'm still chipping away at he's such a good person
unicorn chronicles by bruce coville, i have a pdf of the last book which is out of print, because as i said above he wants people to be able to read it
I still love most of the things I read as a kid. Percy Jackson is still great, and I still love the first five Artemis Fowl books :D There was this series of Dutch books about girls and horses though that I collected a few years ago because I used to read them as a kid. I collected 57 out of 60, read them all, and realised they're really not for an adult audience :P
I read Redwall as a kid but I was never really into it for some reason. I liked it fine but it was just.. meh.
cronus chronicles, sisters grimm, spiderwick chronicles, mysterious benedict society, the name of this book is secret, the land of elyon, and fuckin inkheart. god i love inkheart
Edit: lol whoops I was draft saving and just copy/pasted it all, have some john green talk as well as book nostalgia I am a massive nerdfighter and I don't really like his writing, it's just sorta boring to me. It honestly really irks me how when I talk positive about John green it always goes to his writing, I knew him as a vlogger first and that's how I see him primarily. And in vlogging he is funny and compassionate and relatable and makes me feel positive and hopeful for the world ... Is there a word for special interest level love and want to talk about thing for non sperg? Because that's how I feel about warrior cats forever I read all 15, and have one of the guide books!! Can you tell i really love Talking Animals? (Why the hell have I still never read redwall) Same!!! I read a lot of horse series, pony pals was my fav. Literally lost my shit when I read the homestuck joke, 100% my fav joke from all of homestuck
man, i read so many of these (&.. i still occasionally reread some of them...). did anyone else read the edge chronicles (beyond the deepwoods, stormchaser, midnight over sanctaphrax, the curse of the gloamglozer, etc)? because those freaked me the heck out when i was a kid. so did the deltora quest books, so much so that i never finished the actual first series as a kid & ended up just reading the deltora shadowlands & dragons of deltora instead, a couple years later. babby me was not up for the lake of tears. i also read redwall, guardians of ga'hoole (up to a point, i think i gave up around the third time the main characters changed? maybe i'm mixing this up with another series), artemis fowl, & just. so many of these series. imma reread some of these when i get home
Ah, okay! I only ever read the one about prehistoric bats, for some reason. Which is weird because I fuckin love bats so you'd think I would have read more of them :I Ngl, though, the Bartimaeus trilogy is what made me love footnotes. It was such a clever use of them! Ah, true, I can see your point there. I guess that never seemed odd to me because my mom loved to go on long rants about the evils of Wal-Mart so... yeah. Man, though, that book had one of my favorite lones in the entire series, where Saint Dane (lmao side note, my phone autocorrected that to Saint Dan >XD ) gives his line about despair having the greatest impact after a moment of hope. But, yeah. Poor Nevva. :C Ahahahaaaaaaa yeah, absolutely paranoia fuel. Especially for kids with overactive imaginations. 8I I have stories, man. Man I loved all the different worlds! Coral was my favorite :'D I admit, I was a bit sad that Earth took up three slots all on its own, it would've been SO COOL to have had more weird other worlds. I remember daydreaming a lot about there being a world with no humans, so during the flume ride over Bobby had to transform into whatever actually lived on that world. It was neat.
!!! I didn't finish reading them either because I hit the end of high school and basically... stopped reading anything other than fanfiction. But I should finish those, they're good.
