Books are divided in to two main groups.
If I were to put books into a scientific family chart, it would look something like this:
Kingdom:
Book
Phylum:
Fiction Nonfiction
Class:
[Type/Time]
Realistic Historic
Fantasic Present
Order:
[Basic Catagory]
Science Fiction Biography
"Teen" Fiction Documentary
Adventure Testimonial
Thriller/Horror How-to/ Manual
Mystery News Story
Mystery News Story
Mythology Current Event
(I could go on, but I'll save you the reading)
Family:
[Sub-Genre]
*'s mean it can go for both sides of the catagory (fic and non-fic)
FICTION NON-FICTION
Science Fiction : Ancient Times
Dystopian Egypt
Inter-Galactic China
Historical Fiction
Creation-Noah
Noah-Abraham
Abraham-Joseph
Joseph-Kings
Prophets-Jesus
Resurrection-Reformation
Revival-Revolutionaries (1500s-1800)
Victorian (1800s)
Modern (1900-2000s)
Adventure*
Mystery*
Military*
Romance*
Medical*
[I could probably go on, but I think you get the point]
Genus:
[Authors' Names]
Species:
[Individual Title]
(If needed, a Sub-Species could be the title of a book in a series)
So, Harry Potter would be broken down like this:
Kingdom: Book
Phylum: Fiction
Class: Fantastic
Order: Fantasy
Family: Adventure
Genus: J.K. Rowling
Species: the Harry Potter series
Sub-species: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(This thing took a lot longer than I thought it would....)
Okay. Moving on. Here are some of my favorite Genres and books from them.
Science Fiction.
I love science fiction. I love writing it; I love reading it.
So true ---> "I like bow-ties. Bow-ties are cool."--Matt Smith.
Lol. I've maybe been watching too much Doctor Who lately....
I finally got to the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) and I think he is now my favorite (besides Christopher Eccleston. He's just perfect as the Doctor.)
Star Wars. A friend of mine and I are going to do a Star Wars marathon next month. I guess my favorite one of those is the second one. The scenery in it was absolutely beautiful, and I love Anakin and Padme Amidala.
The Hunger Games.
The Maze Runner (My personal favorite Sci-fi series....which, by the way, has another sequel-to-the-prequel coming out next year, and I am SO excited for it.)
I love Historical fiction. I love reading it; I like writing it.
A few of my favorites:
Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit (Actually, this book is mostly non-fiction. It is based off of the life of Civil War spy, Emma Edmonds, who was a real person)
Shades of Gray by Caroline Reeder (DO NOT confuse this with "Fifty Shades of Gray", thanks.)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emuska Orczy.
Fantasy:
Harry Potter J.K. Rowling. My all-time favorite series ever. (Actually, it's always Harry Potter and whatever else I'm reading at the moment.)
Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis. I love the parallels to Christ in this series.
Mystery (Which is what truly sparked my love for literature.)
Nancy Drew mysteries. I loved Carolyn Keen's series when I was growing up. I was constantly hoping that something...or someone...would dissappear and I'd be the one to solve the mystery. I loved Nancy more than a lot of real people when I was younger. ;-)
The Ten Little Indians (republished as And Then There Were None) by Agatha Christie.
Also by Ms. Christie: Funerals are Fatal (republished as After the Funeral)
I loved the Magic Tree House mysteries, and they were my first love.
This post took me over an hour and a half...I'm done.
I should be back around sometime soon....this weekend maybe???
See y'all later!
That's interesting to classify books the way you do science stuff. Now I want to do it.
ReplyDeleteSo you got to Eleven? He's a pretty cool Doctor. I didn't realize how much I loved him until we watched Twelve. Now I miss him so much. We rewatched "The Time of the Doctor" the other day, and it just about made me cry. It didn't help that they played a lot of my favorite Tenth Doctor music in that episode. Have you seen "Let's Kill Hitler"? It's one of my favorite Eleventh Doctor episodes. And it's totally fine for you to like Eleven best. He's a great Doctor and I still get to keep Ten. ;)
I used to really like the Magic Tree House books
ReplyDeleteI LOVED those growing up. It was a really creative way of telling history. :D
DeleteI love Eleven. I think he's my favorite. You can definitely keep Ten. I love how Eleven laughs so much. He's just so willing to look at the best. But he lies. And that scares me. Nine never lied. He laughed, just like Eleven, but Nine never lied.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am panicking now because of the negative/positive pregnancy test with Amy. It's freaking me out. AND WHY CAN SHE NOT REMEMBER THINGS!? it's getting weird. (As if it wasn't weird enough to begin with.) I'm about to watch "The Rebel Flesh" .