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• "Don't poke the crazy person."
• Gender: Female
• Hometown: Lake Forest, CA
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• Posts: 883 / comments: 44
• Member since: 06/19/09
• Last Login: 09/03/10

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  Hi, my name's Amanda. I'm a college student. I'm majoring in sign language and studio arts, and I love art and reading.

• Favorite Subjects

  For school: Art
  
  For books: Fantasy (magic, dragons, fairies and faeries, mythology [especially Celtic], sword and sorcery, etc...) and historical fiction

• Favorite Genre Of Reads

  scifi-fantasy

• Favorite Quote

  My headphones are not a tasty treat.
  —Me to Huckleberry at least three times a day
  
  The fairies put on their thinking caps, which were red and pointy.
  —Eyes Like Stars (Theatre Illuminata, Book 1)
  
  "What's past is prologue, and the world awaits."
  —Bertie (Eyes Like Stars)
  
  "Don't poke the crazy person."
  —my aunt Karen
  
  "My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with the truth itself. What succor, what consolation is there in the truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie."
  —Vida Winter (The Thirteenth Tale)
  
  They say I have ADD, but they just don't understand... oh, look, a chicken!
  
  "We blow it up so you don’t have to."
  —Adam Savage from Mythbusters
  
  “I’d rather be eaten by a dragon.”
  —Princess Cimorene (Dealing with Dragons)
  
  “I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. ‘Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.’ She looks up and gives me her full gaze. “Don't be ridiculous,” she purrs, ‘I wrote it.’”
  —Dilys Laing (Miao)
  
  I've got Aspergers. What's your excuse?
  
  "Books may well be the only true magic."
  —Alice Hoffman

• Favorite Authors

  Tamora Pierce and Meg Cabot are my very favorites, but I love so many authors... Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke, Clare Dunkle, Patricia Wrede, Lois Duncan, Philip Pullman, Eoin Colfer, Shannon Hale, Diana Wynne Jones, Christopher Paolini, Lemony Snicket, Kathryn Reiss, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, Brian Jaques, and Maria V. Snyder are all wonderful. (To name just a few... LoL!)

• Favorite Recent Reads

  Eyes Like Stars (Lisa Mantchev)
  Wake (Lisa McMann)
  Revolution (Jennifer Donnelly)
  Bones of Faerie (Janni Lee Simner)

• If I could be any character I'd be (and why?)

  From Dealing With Dragons, Cimorene (because she is funny, strong, and creative, and she doesn't care what people think of her) and Morwen (because she is smart and practical and she loves cats and books); Jacky Faber from Bloody Jack, (because she's just such a character and always comes out on top, no matter how much trouble she gets into); Alanna, Beka, and Daine from Tamora Pierce's Tortall books (because they are strong and go for their dreams); Holly Short from Artemis Fowl (because she’s just super cool) and of course Artemis (because there's a little bit of criminal mastermind in me, too); Sara Crewe from A Little Princess (because she is the ultimate optimist and dreamer); Vida Winter from The Thriteenth Tale (because I wish I could weave stories like her’s); the grandmother in A Long Way From Chicago (because she makes me laugh no matter how down I am); and Howl from Howl's Moving Castle, because he expresses himself with green slime.

• If I was stranded on a desert island and could only bring 3 books, I'd bring

  To Whom It May Concern (specifically, the person who decided that it was a good idea to change the question from "What are your favorite books?"):
  
  You kind of suck. I, however, being a creative person, will not be constrained by your... um... constraints. I would bring a book about how to escape from a desert island, and once I had made good use of this book, I would go home and read all my favorite books. Which leads me to... (drum roll, please)... my favorite books.
  
  What ARE my favorites, you ask? There's too many to name all of them, but my top picks are Dealing With Dragons, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Thirteenth Tale, The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose, A Long Way From Chicago and A Year Down Yonder, A Little Princess, Because of Winn-Dixie, Peter Pan, Bloody Jack, the Sally Lockhart trilogy, Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Septimus Heap, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Looking Glass Wars, His Dark Materials, the Abhorsen trilogy, The Hollow Kingdom, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, and anything by Tamora Pierce or Meg Cabot.
  
  Ha.
  
  Sincerely (sort of),
  
  Amanda