cimorene

1. Your favorite *non-fiction* book.
blood, bread and roses by judy grahn: about women, menstrual cycles, blood and procreation and goddess-worshipping cultures, the transition to god-worship, ornamentation in mating...

2. Your favorite children's book (from the age when you were being read to, or just beginning to read.)
these two great rhyming books-- chickens aren't the only ones and the reason for a flower--gorgeous illos.

3. Your favorite book as a young adult (define "young adult" as you will.)
dealing with dragons by patricia c wrede

4. Your favorite fantasy author.
maybe fred saberhagen.

5. A slashy book that you own.
mercedes' lackey's last herald-mage trilogy (from elementary school, people!)