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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 7:28 pm
The book that has stayed with me more than any other is 'A Fine Balance'.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 10:55 pm
there was another set of books i loved and i'll be dipped if i remember the names or author. there were maybe 3 books and it was turn of the century america and there were 3 or 4 daughters. i remember that the mom would hide pennies for when the girls had to clean house. i think i was maybe 11 when i read them. does the premise sound familiar to anyone?! i posted this earlier. tonight i discovered it was the 'all of a kind' family series. what a fun set of books. there were 4 or 5 of them that i recall reading. for some reason, the mother hiding pennies when the girls cleaned to see how well they did really stuck with me. i used to hope my mom would hide pennies for us. sometimes i found a diaper safety pin with the duckhead on it, and occasionally, i found a teething biscuit or a piece of zweiback. my mom had more babies than most people have pennies!! 
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 12:27 pm
I am going to go by how I felt when I read the book rather than knowing now which is best. My favorite is Audrey Rose -- by Frank De Felitta. I read it when I was 10 years old and I couldn't set it down until I was done reading it. My mom didn't even know I had grabbed it off of her office shelf. Granny took me a couple years later to see the movie, and that was my very first experience of "The book was so much better than the movie".
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 6:00 pm
alas, so often the book is better than the movie! i remember seeing the film "hawaii" and then reading the michener book. heck, there's a whole half of a book left where the movie ended!! i ready audrey rose, too. but it came out when i was older than 10! i was living in new york, so i have to have been somewhere between 20 and 23... i read the 'harrad experiment' when i was 12 and babysitting and found the book...it was the first time i realized books could be nasty!! i liked to babysit there so i could finish the book LOL
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 9:20 pm
Tabbyking I remember that series of books and loved them as a child!!!!!!!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 6:43 am
I wasn't sure where to put this so am putting this link here. It's called *What Should I Read Next* and it's based on your favorite books in a number of categories. I thought it was kind of fun and has sent me scurrying to look for books in my favorite genre that I haven't read...plenty of them!
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 6:48 am
That's really cool Vee! Thanks!!
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 2:43 pm
Little Women and Wind In The Willows are also two of my all time faves. A book that touched me profoundly...non-fiction, called Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown...I basically cried all the way through it. Another is just one of those fluff romance novels but I have read it umpteen times and enjoy every single reading...A Rose In Winter by Kathleen Woodiwiss (Avon 1982). I so wish they'd make it into a movie...it would be simply superb! 
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 7:48 pm
one of my favorites as an adult was 'the shell seekers' by rosamund pilcher.
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Kattatude
Member
04-28-2005
| Friday, April 14, 2006 - 1:23 am
Another of my favorite books that I forgot to mention is Life With Father by Clarence Day. It's non-fiction...a collection of stories about his father and mother. Anytime I need a laugh, I can pick up that book and be assured of getting one. I guess I've read it 6 or 7 times over the last 15 years.
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Bigsister
Member
09-02-2001
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 7:36 am
I notice several have mentioned Leon Uris books, and also James Michener. I read several of the books of each of these authors some 30 years ago, and loved them. I particularly liked Exodus. Fondly remembering them, recently I have read some of them again and find they are not nearly as great to me the second time around. Wonder what that says about me?? One of the best books I have read recently is Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden. It's basically an old fashioned fairy tale, but it somehow captured me. }}
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Friday, April 21, 2006 - 10:18 am
Loved Memoirs of a Geisha. Have the DVD now and want to watch it. I also loved books by James Clavell. Noble House, Shogun, Tai Pan. Think I will re read those, its been awhile.
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Carrly
Member
09-28-2000
| Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 6:54 pm
Floating Worlds by Cecilia Holland was a book that I read many years ago and the first time that I read science fiction. It is actually a tragic love story that takes place in many worlds. I don't know why, but it is one of my favorite books. I think it lead me to the Stephen Donaldson books, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant which are some other favorites of mine. He has actually written another one lately continuing the saga, Runes of the Earth which will be the first in a new series called the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 7:01 pm
Gone With the Wind and The Firm
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 10:51 pm
It's a tie between: The Brothers Karamazov and A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 11:30 pm
To Kill A Mocking Bird
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 11:32 pm
I mean To Kill A Mockingbird Apologies to Harper Lee for the typo
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Anniem
Member
05-21-2006
| Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 12:42 pm
As a child I loved the Little House Books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was so sad when the librarian told me I had read them all. I was surprised recently to learn that Laura didn't die until 1957, which was about when I was reading those books. As an adult, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rosamund Pilcher's Shell Seekers, and The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon are some of my favorites. Like many of you I find new favorites all the time.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 7:57 pm
Hard to narrow down to one! Childhood Favorites Where the Red Fern Grows A Little Princess The Secret Garden Teen Favorites To Kill A Mockingbird Lord of the Flies The Illustrated Man College Years Invisible Man-- by Ralph Ellison, not the sci fi book Steppenwolf Birdy Adult Favorites The Bean Trees The Poisonwood Bible The Accidental Tourist And right now--the book I'm currently reading, Lonesome Dove
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 4:28 am
Close tie for me: Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham and The Chrysalids by the same author. Fell in love with the above as a teenager and every once in awhile I pull them out and read them again.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 2:59 pm
Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, February 03, 2008 - 12:01 am
Childhood Favourites: Diary Of Anne Frank The Railway Children Louisa May Alcott books Anne Of Green Gables books Bobbsey Twins books Little House series Many more just can't think as I was an avid reader since I was 3 Teen years: I Heard An Owl Call My Name Black Like Me A Separate Peace To Kill A Mockingbird Mary Queen Of Scots Roots Agatha Christie books Any book of historic significance fiction or non fiction, diaries, personal narratives etc. which continues today especially books on the Holocaust. I also love true crime Adult years: Paris 1919 6 Wives Of Henry The VIII Night Leon Uris books (QB V11, Exodus and Mila 18 are my favourite) Anne Rule books PD James books Harry Potter Many more as I read a lot. Not as much as Mame but I try.
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, February 03, 2008 - 8:27 am
Elementary school years: Charlotte's Web Island of the Blue Dolphin Teen Years: To Kill A Mockingbird Little Women Adult Years: The Thornbirds Lonesome Dove Gone With The Wind
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 9:08 am
The Secret Garden.... I even re-read it about two years ago just because it is my favourite.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 6:44 am
Dahli, I feel that way about Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. It has a permanent spot in the cubbyshelf on my headboard and I reread it at least once every year or so. I have a photo of the cover of that particular edition in my bio here.
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