Talk:Essays/@comment-4423292-20171119235333

The series I've been in love with, in chronological order, are: This is by no means to say these are the only series I've ever loved. But these are the series who I've obsessed over and given my heart to for a time. I've enjoyed other series. I had a short flings with Septimus Heap. But the above-listed ones are the big ones. They're the great loves of my literary life.
 * 1) the Oz books
 * 2) Little House on the Prairie
 * 3) Harry Potter
 * 4) Percy Jaskson
 * 5) The Hunger Games
 * 6) A Song of Ice and Fire
 * 7) the Kencyrath books

The Oz books and Little House on the Prairie were pre-literary loves. They were books that were almost exclusively read to me rather than me reading them out. We're talking preschool to about first grade. I scarcely remember them anymore. I know only that I loved them, and that I wore only dresses for a while when I was about 4 because the girls in Little House wore only dresses.

Harry Potter and Percy Jackson were my elementary school. I remember reading Harry Potter by myself as early as second grade. Percy Jackson came a bit later, and fourth grade was the peak of my obsession. They are both series I still have great fondness for. I'd like to reread them at some point.

The Hunger Games is the awkward one. It was my middle school love, and middle school was a hard time for everyone. I think it's also worth pointing out that much of my love of it was definately fed by my friends' love of it. It wasn't just the books really getting to me, like most of these other ones are. Now, all I can say about them is... we had a messy breakup. It was a weird time in my life. The books got worse as they went on. Enough time has passed that I'll acknowledge now that it meant a great deal to me at one point in my life, but... of the whole list, it's the only one whom the love of I now see as rather cringey.

A Song of Ice and Fire was my high school love. I'm still in love with it now, although now it has taken a backseat to my most recent love: The Kencyrath books. They are the love of my last-year-of-high-school-and-early-college.