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by andrewducker. List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than a few minutes and do not think too hard. They do not have to be the "right" books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way.

Impossible for me to do without taking more than a few minutes*, but still, I didn't think too hard about it. So it could be that I forgot ones which were more significant to me than these.

*As in me thinking, "umm, oh, what about that book with that guy and the talking horses**. What was the name of those books?" and "oh, that book with the girl in the boat***. Was that Riddlemaster of Hed? Was that Le Guin?..."

1. DragonLance series by Weis & Hickman
2. Shadow Man by Melissa Scott
3. Bone Dance by Emma Bull
4. The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
5. **The Last Herald Mage trilogy by Mercedes Lackey
6. ***Duel of Sorcery trilogy by Jo Clayton
7. The Gate of Ivory trilogy by Doris Egan
8. The Chanur books by C.J. Cherryh
9. Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster
10. The Return of the Jedi novelization by James Kahn


Now, if any of you want to list ten books, consider yourself tagged!

besides fruit vending machines

At one rest stop in Pennsylvania, there was a group of women dressed in Amish garb (a novel sight for me), and a parked van marked as an "Amish/Mennonite taxi service".

At another stop, Qiao later mentioned that as I was heading into the bathroom, a woman behind me spoke to me, saying that it was the women's bathroom. This surprised me, as I hadn't heard anyone speak to me. It's probably for the best though, as the woman might have felt awkward if I had replied "I know" or "Yeah, that's right". She probably mistook me for a boy as my hair was short, my clothing non-feminine, and I didn't have a purse with me.