Well, Veronika tagged me, so I suppose I’ll be compliant and post on books. 
Who is your favorite author and why?
This is definitely in the top 10 worst questions ever. It’s somewhere in between ”What’s your favorite book?” and “So, you’re at college this year…you must be so glad to be free from your family, aren’t you?” (I’m the oldest of 9 kids, and absolutely love it) which is right above “So, what are you doing on Friday night?” I could not choose a favorit author, so I shall give you a nice long list of some of my favorites. And it will be in no way exhaustive. After all, I’m an English major…
Elisabeth Elliot, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Christina Rossetti, George Herbert, Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters (especially Charlotte, though), Victor Hugo, John Piper, Amy Carmichael, C.J. Mahaney, J.I. Packer, George Eliot, Edmund Spenser, the Brownings, Chaim Potok, Scott, Tozer, Tennyson… and I could keep going, but I’d bore you to tears. *smiles*
Who was your first favorite author and why?
My first favorite author, eh? *thinks* Probably Laura Ingalls Wilder. I have many a fond memory of curling up in a big brown chair with Dad and falling asleep as he read the Little House series aloud.
Who is the newest addition to your favorite authors and why?
My latest finds (again, plural, for I cannot bear to leave someone out) are T.S. Eliot and George Herbert. Introduced to them by the infamous Dr. Brown in Brit Lit this year, between her efforts and those of my Renaissance Lit prof, I fell head over heels for these gentlemen and their writings. Herbert was a metaphysical poet, and thus used very complex verse form. He was also a pastor, and his poems are almost entirely devotional/meditational. Eliot, on the other hand, can be seen as depressing and obscure, but that’s because he wrote in such a way that his poems are dense with allusions and references to other literature and trivia and songs and historical events. With the help of good footnotes and a good scholar to pester with questions, he’s very intruiging and profound. I particularly love his Four Quartets, which in a way, narrates his spiritual pilgrimage. I’m now a poetry nerd. Thanks, Drs. Harvey and Brown!
Linkage
In case you didn’t see this already, I’m writing a guest series on the Beauty from the Heart blog on biblical femininity. Also, my friend David Ketter is writing a parallel series on his blog, [Re]Connected, on biblical masculinity. Enjoy!
