30 Day Meme - Days 16 & 17

Day 16 - Your favorite poem or collection of poetry. - I'm not huge on poetry, but I have a collection of Rilke I like to curl up and relax with every now and then. If I have to pick an all time favorite poem it's Yeats' The Second Coming.

Day 17 - Day 17 - Favorite story or collection of stories (short stories, novellas, novelettes, etc.)

I've got a Lovecraft collection that includes At the Mountains of Madness and several of his other works. I'm not big on short stories buy I'll take one of Lovecraft's whenever I can get it. I also enjoy Stephen King's, which is unsurprising given how much influence he drew from Lovecraft.

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30 Day Meme - Day 18

Day 18 - Favorite beginning scene in a book

My all-time favorite beginning scene has to be the infamous "Darkfreinds' Social" scene from The Great Hunt, volume 2 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. I enjoy the device of using a double agent as a viewpoint character without revealing his/her identity so much that I've gone on to use it quite a bit in my own writing.

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