Difficult to choose from all the books in the house but I guess fav authors are:- Tolkien, Patricia Kenneally,Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Mariion Zimmer Bradley, Stephen Donaldson, Terry Brookes, Katherine Kerr, Christopher Stasheff, Stephen Lawhead and Tad Williams. Plus mustn't forget Phillip Larkin for poetry and then there are all sorts of reference books on celtic, arthurian,native american and historical subjects.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."