Ask game: top five childhood books
I mean I think I'd have to go by series cause I'm too tried to remember individual novels....so!
Animorphs - I don't think any book series can ever and will ever stick to me the way animorphs did, I can still sometimes quote whole sections of the books by heart. Just the set up! the world building! the trauma! between it and ds9 and mash I really lived in the takeaway that war is terrible and will always do terrible things, cause you to do terrible things, and effect you for the rest of your life. I really like how it never shied away from the fact that these were kids forced to fight a war and that was unfair and also these were kids! of course sometimes things were silly. but yeah, everyone please read animorphs and be as fucked up as I was with the last book and spoilers death.
Tortall Series - I'm just grouping these all together but very very specifically for me Song of the Lioness and the Protector of the Small quartet are some of my absolute fave books still. Alanna and Kel are probably still some of my fave heroines and I really admired how they stood strong in everything they went through. being a short ill tempered red head myself I really stuck with Alanna too lol, my best friend who got me into the books specifically did it because she knew I'd relate to Alanna and she was right.
Redwall - I'm Canadian okay, these books were everywhere and as they should be, I loooooved how cozy these were, these books about creatures who fought their own wars and how interconnected the books were even though some were like hundreds of years apart. I even had a map of from the series on my wall and when I got a new book I'd pin where it took place like I was trying to figure out how close/far it was to the other places. I'd stopped reading them by the time the author died but hearing about devastated me and I dug out the books and reread them all, I still think the world building is some of the coolest out there
Magic Treehouse - I mean I know I read this more as a kid kid but damn if these books weren't fun, I had so many of them lying around the house and they were just fun quick little reads about kids having time adventures and we all know by now tumblr user ezrisdax is weak for time adventures
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit - okay so like, I started reading when I was three and these were the books my dad read to us and the way the story goes was my siblings sat still and let him read them and I decided he was too slow and read the books myself and for the longest time up to my teen years I reread LotR/Hobbit every year (skipping the spider parts, what can I say, I'm a wimp with a phobia). I still have every poem/song in the Hobbit memorized. it's just burned into my head for now and always and I don't think I gotta say why I mean, it's a classic for reason right?
