I'm into that. It's very Ursula Le Guin.

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2. top 5 books of all time?

Tough question!!! I will go with books that were impactful for my understanding of what literature could be because otherwise I would have way, way more than five and narrowing it down is always hell.

Failure to Comply by you. It plays with language in such a fun and interesting way while telling a story of transmad liberation, it's just really gorgeous and opened up my eyes to how much you can do with text and format.

MAEJ by Dale Stromberg. Just a really intruiging book with dense worldbuilding and such a fun approach to how it involves language in the narrative. Forces me to slow down while reading and really work on it, which I adore!

Blutbuch by Kim de l'Horizon. A really intense deep dive into how swiss german genders language, also into family, history, trauma and gender, so of course I'm into that. One of the most impactful german books to me. Took me forever to finish (I see a theme here... I love books that make me work for them), but also opened so many new possibilities and joys of narration and storytelling. (Has an english translation also, but I haven't read that one so idk).

Body After Body by Briar Ripley Page is also up there, in particular since it was one of the early indie trans books I've read that really kicked off my Oh God I have to read more indie trans lit, there's good stuff out there and not just YA romance. Plus, I do so adore the worldbuilding still, this horrible clone space station does live in my head rentfree!

I also really like The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk. Is it the best book of the horror/weird lit/retelling of the deeply racist or sexist classics genre that is out there? Probably not, it is a good one though and it is one of the rare ones I can actually sell at my job in the bookstore, so I am very glad it exists.

14. do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

Dog ear, no! I used to do that as a child and I realized it breaks book pages really easily, so I stopped.

Mark, sometimes. If I really love a book, I do sometimes (but very rarely) take notes in pencil (mostly I don't because I hate writing by hand) just because it is fun to go through a book again later and see your past thoughts. But again, it's very rare. And then I sometimes put permanent Sticky Note Page Markers also for my favorite scenes, just so I can refer back to them.

But for the most part (like 99% of the time) I don't mark my books at all.

17. top 5 children’s books?

Lord of the Rings has to be one of my big ones here for me, just because I did read it when I was eight and it was the first book that really showed me how much fun literature can be! Fuck yeah, I love reading! Take me on this awesome journey with you, Tolkien!

The Age of the Five trilogy by Trudi Canavan was another really big book series for child me. Would it still hold up if I reread it now? A weak maybe. Definitely more than certain other books that were important to child/teen me, but again, a very weak maybe and so I haven't dared yet. I prefer to live in the world I built for myself while 13 year old me was really ill during a beach camping vacation and I read Last of the Wilds feverish in a tent and discovered lesbian feelings about Emerahl.

Eragon was another book that was important to child me, but it has thankfully been completely replaced with the vastly superior Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin, which I unfortunately only discovered as an adult. Counting it here though, because those are books written for children/teens. Especially Tehanu was so, so, so impactful for me and I wish I had gotten to read it when I was 13. Would my life have turned out different? Maybe not. Would my teen years have impacted me differently if I had something better to cling to than *checks notes* Mists of Avalon? Definitely and that would have made things better.

I also really adored the Warriors series as a kid. It is probably somewhat obvious (loves cats, loves blood, loves characters going through trauma and being dramatic about it) that this was one of my big autism moments as a child, but I devoured them and then I would hiss and meow at my brothers <3.

And then another book that I might not really classify as a favorite per se, but that did really influence my reading habits as a child, is the fact that my grandparents owned a big collection of austrian (& german) folklore and legends written in Fraktur (translations I could find are calling it German type/text, it's similar to Gothic font apparently? Not entirely sure). Either way, I did love deciphering that and I just think it is partially at fault for my love of Books I Have To Work For.