I enjoy many types of literature, and some things that are fun to read, but hardly intellectual.
I write a story online, Babblestory, and I have put up a few poems I wrote years ago at my business website Poetry. In 2026, I set up a free WordPress site just for new poetic endeavors: https://stidmama2.wordpress.com
My favorite genre to read is science fiction, though sometimes I prefer pure fantasy, and often historical fiction catches my eye. I enjoy reading (and re-reading) children’s books as well.
In unsorted order, my favorite authors include:
Piers Anthony
JRR Tolkien
Louisa May Alcott
Kathryn Kenny (Trixie Belden author)
Jane Austen
Douglas Adams
Madeleine L’Engle
Ursula K. LeGuin
Katherine Kurtz
Patrick McManus
Anthony Trollope
Robert Louis Stevenson
My favorite books of poetry as a child were Mother Goose and an anthology by Louis Untermeyer, the illustrations in that book were by Joan Walsh Anglund.
My absolute favorite books (in order!) were:
- The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (in my 50s I learned there are sequels!!! – still need to get them, though.)
- The Secret Garden, published and A Little Princess – published 1905 (many years later I found a first edition book called Sarah Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin’s which was clearly the origin! and published in 1888), both by Frances Hodgson Burnett. She also wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy (and many more!), which was good to have read, but not one I re-read regularly
- I also loved a book that had two stories by George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin, and The Princess and Curdi.
- Little Women, of course!
- The Brownies, Their Book by Palmer Cox. It was a gift from my grandparents, and I read it so much at one point I had it memorized.