I'm a few years behind you, translating and working on my bachelor's and writing a novel. Trying to get trough my fears of failure too.
I'm not sure it's that books can't have the same power on me that they did when I was twelve (and deeply socially isolated, let's face it) but it takes better books to do it. I was much more willing to trust an author and let them take me through the story. I was more willing to let my emotions be stripped raw by a book. When I want that same intensity now, I write.
Anyway, the actual answer was pretty much the ones I like now. I was reading the Abhorsen series, Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Theif books, Redwall, Harry Potter, Tamora Pierces Tortall books and Circle of Magic books, Lloyd Alexander, The Moorchild, Robin McKinley, The Chocolate War...
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Date: 2013-01-24 04:01 pm (UTC)I'm not sure it's that books can't have the same power on me that they did when I was twelve (and deeply socially isolated, let's face it) but it takes better books to do it. I was much more willing to trust an author and let them take me through the story. I was more willing to let my emotions be stripped raw by a book. When I want that same intensity now, I write.
Anyway, the actual answer was pretty much the ones I like now. I was reading the Abhorsen series, Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Theif books, Redwall, Harry Potter, Tamora Pierces Tortall books and Circle of Magic books, Lloyd Alexander, The Moorchild, Robin McKinley, The Chocolate War...