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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
The book that has stayed with me more than any other is 'A Fine Balance'.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 10:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
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!! :-)

Naja
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06-28-2003

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
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".

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 6:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
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

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 9:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Tabbyking I remember that series of books and loved them as a child!!!!!!!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 6:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
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!

Heyltslori
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09-15-2001

Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
That's really cool Vee! Thanks!!

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Monday, April 10, 2006 - 2:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rupertbear a private message Print Post    
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! :-)

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Monday, April 10, 2006 - 7:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
one of my favorites as an adult was 'the shell seekers' by rosamund pilcher.

Kattatude
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04-28-2005

Friday, April 14, 2006 - 1:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kattatude a private message Print Post    
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.

Bigsister
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09-02-2001

Friday, April 21, 2006 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bigsister a private message Print Post    
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. }}

Saggkl
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07-17-2002

Friday, April 21, 2006 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saggkl a private message Print Post    
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.

Carrly
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09-28-2000

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Carrly a private message Print Post    
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.

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 7:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
Gone With the Wind and The Firm

Uncle_ricky
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07-02-2007

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 10:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Uncle_ricky a private message Print Post    
It's a tie between:
The Brothers Karamazov
and
A Prayer for Owen Meany

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 11:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
To Kill A Mocking Bird

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 11:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
I mean To Kill A Mockingbird

Apologies to Harper Lee for the typo


Anniem
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05-21-2006

Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Anniem a private message Print Post    
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.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 7:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
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

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 4:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
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.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Sunday, February 03, 2008 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
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.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Sunday, February 03, 2008 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
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


Dahli
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11-27-2000

Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 9:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dahli a private message Print Post    
The Secret Garden.... I even re-read it about two years ago just because it is my favourite.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, February 25, 2008 - 6:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
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.