Hiya,

I think I may start with the Tiffany books. It doesn't matter that they're for younger readers; when I pick up a book, all that matters is, "is it so good that it makes me forget where I am ??"   I downloaded [i]Wintersmith[/i] in a pdf to see what it was like, after hearing said songs, which made me think the book must be brilliant.

He (Wintersmith) makes me think of the Snow Queen, who was always a favourite. I had my face painted as her once, with blue sparkly lips, & didn't want to take the make-up off. I write myself, & I'm more into the witches-wizards-&-dragons type of fantasy than the sci-fi sort.

The Chalk reminds me of my own upbringing & makes me quite emotional.

TP seems to be one of those authors you get, & you like, or you don't. I never got him before, but I'm starting to now. Just because I like fantasy doesn't mean I want to read every fantasy book going.