List of favorites: literary edition!

Okay, I had it. Those text boxes with my favorite writers and poets need to go. They're cluttering up my page and stuff. Instead, I will devote this entire post to nothing but favorites. For now, I'll stick to literary topics.

Favorite Writers:
Madeleine L'Engle
Richard Matheson
Charlotte Brontë
Ray Bradbury
Flannery O'Conner
Dean Koontz
Shirley Jackson
Thomas Harris
Edith Wharton
Stephen King
Kate Chopin

Favorite Poets:
Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
William Blake
Anne Bradstreet

Favorite Books (top ten):

1. A House Like A Lotus by Madeleine L'Engle
2. What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
5. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
6. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
7. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
8. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux
9. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
10. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

Favorite Genres:
Psychological suspense/thriller
Psychological horror
Gothic
Amateur detective mystery
Character studies (but the characters must be interesting, dammit!)

Favorite Literary Criticism Tools:
Comparative (I once used this method to prove how Toni Morrison's Beloved was also a supernatural horror novel)
Reader-Response (I think they don't empathize this enough in practicing literary thinking)
Biographical (and they say writers don't use any bit of themselves in their work... pffffff!)
Psychological (what were they really thinking?! XD)

Favorite Characters (ever!):
Jane Eyre (from the eponymous book)
Polly O'Keefe (from A House Like A Lotus)
Margaret Lea (from Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale)
Will Graham (from Red Dragon)

Uhm, I can't think of any more categories. So, I leave you, listening to Matthew Sweet's "Divine Intervention"...

Regards,
Lindsey

P.S.: The strange smell mystery has been solved. It's wood burning in people's fireplaces. Huh, never would've made that conclusion.

And hey, what do y'all think of the icon? It's of my gal, Tina Weymouth. She rocks a serious bass.