Happy distracting meme time: Top fives

[auroracloud]

Here's a meme stolen from thisbluespirit because we can all use some easy happy distracting content:

Ask me my top 5 of anything and I'll answer.

My note: These can be fannish or non-fannish, but if non-fannish, please nothing related to personal life(e.g. work, people, places, life events, studies), as this is a public post and I want to remain careful about what I post publicly. If fannish, also rare and obscure fandoms are welcomed, even if you and I are the only people who know about the said fandom!

Note: I've had some issues with my eyes hurting from looking at the computer screen too much, so if I take some time to answer, that may be why.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

How about books?

[auroracloud]

This is always so hard! But I'll try. One of the things making it harder now is that I've read a lot of new books I've loved in the past few years and haven't had time to reread many of them, and I usually judge favourite-book-ness partly by whether I keep rereading it... Anyway, here's one attempt at a list, as to what comes to my mind right now. The order is rather arbitrary, though number #1 was a given as soon as I started thinking about the question. This is a terribly, terribly Anglo-centric list, whoops. Also, I'm deciding to count book series as one book if they form a continuous whole and you don't get the whole story without reading each of the books. (see #2 and #3 on the list)

1. Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
2. Ann Leckie: The Imperial Radch trilogy (Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy. I really can't pick just one because I love the whole story together, though also the individual volumes.)
3. Martha Wells: Murderbot Diaries
4. Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo
5. Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War

I really wanted to include something by Tove Jansson, but I couldn't decide what - her letters? One of the Moomin books? One of her adult books? Maybe I need to reread... Well, it's not like I don't have time for reading in the next few weeks.

[thisbluespirit]

Rereading makes such a difference! I find that an obstacle, too, not having re-read things so much so easily lately.

And, heh, nice choices! I've read at least some of everything but 3 & 5 and have liked them all, especially Monte Cristo, which was such a blast of a 19th C brick. XD

[auroracloud]

If I start getting back into my reading flow, maybe I'll get to more rereading at least, since I'm now limited to my bookshelf plus currently checked out library books. (Of course, that's still a year's worth of reading without rereads, but still, the pool of new books to choose from is slightly smaller than usual!)

Monte Cristo is a blast, agreed! And due for a reread, really. :-D