from 'my bucket list'

 As promised here is 1 of the things on my 'bucket list' i am currently working on; should i mention this 1 along with several others i'll tell you about later are ongoing and have been for longer then i can even remember?

  • read every book ever written by my top 5 favorite authors 

                      Mary Summer Rain                        

  so far I've managed to read everything Mary Summer Rain has written that I can get my hands on at least once - you can find the list here  http://awriterisawriter-regardless.yolasite.com/mary-summer-rain-my-inspiration-and-teacher.php

Neil Gaiman

is one of the most inspiring authors and human beings alive and if you aren’t convinced yet, watch this video and scroll through the fan art of some of his famous quotes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgt_kA4fyiU

books by Neil Gaiman I'm still working on this list.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1221698.Neil_Gaiman

Maya Angelou

In addition to her contributions to literature, Angelou was an influential figure in the civil rights movement, and later became a crusader for women’s health. Once named one of the 30 Most Powerful Women in America by Ladies’ Home Journal, she’ll be remembered for her personal legacy and impressive life story in addition to her writing

Still I Rise Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Maya Angelou has 123 books on Goodreads with 402169 ratings. Maya Angelou's most popular book is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/3503.Maya_Angelou

The last 2 authors on this list i'm still waffling with - right now they are 

Ann Moura [Aoumiel] 

http://www.annmourasgarden.com/main.html

i am currently on my 4th novel by her

and

Marion Zimmer Bradley

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4841825.Marion_Zimmer_Bradley

 author of  The Avalon series and The Darkover series whom I just recently discovered.