luckyexwife
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Post by luckyexwife on Apr 6, 2018 1:30:58 GMT
I was looking to see if someone started a thread about the passing of Anita Shreve and came across this thread. My favorite book is The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve. I absolutely hate the last page, but the rest of the book is amazing. I love a well written love story and this is one of the best. The Me Before You series is also among my favorites. Oh, my gosh, I agree so much! I loved The Last Time They Met, right up until the last page! I didn't know Anita Shreve passed away, how sad. I've enjoyed all the books of hers that I have read.
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Post by jillonthehill on Apr 6, 2018 1:52:59 GMT
I had to re-read that last page a few times just to make sure that that really happened.
I was just looking at a list of every book she has written and there are only two that I didn't absolutely love. She will be missed!
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Post by nightnurse on Apr 6, 2018 2:51:39 GMT
Since I started keeping track of what I read, I've gone through my list at the end of each year and chosen a "book of the year." Here are the last 5: I love this idea! Here are some of my favorite books: The Stand-King Outlander series-Gabaldon The Magic Circle and The Eight- both by Katherine Neville The Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne The Lord of the Rings-Tolkein Aztec-Gary Jennings A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Adams Good Omens-Gaimen and Pratchett The Road to Avalon and The Edge of Light-both by Joan Wolf Plenty more but that's the best I can think of tonight.
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Post by Zee on Apr 6, 2018 3:02:01 GMT
I'm reading Slash's autobiography and just finished Mayte's book about her marriage to Prince. I liked her book a lot. It wasn't written all that well but it wasn't terrible and I thought she was very fair, and shared details without being salacious. In any case I really enjoyed it.
I think I have Lita Ford's book in there too, Kindle had a rock stars deal one day.
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finaledition
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Jun 26, 2014 0:30:34 GMT
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Post by finaledition on Apr 6, 2018 3:31:14 GMT
I'll assume you didn't mean "which is your ONE favorite book"... that would be an impossible question. lol. So I'll list a few of my very favorites, ones that I reread (often many times): -- Lord of the Rings series -- Harry Potter -- Tripod trilogy (old, and one of my favorites from teen years) -- Mitford series -- The Stand -- Watchers (horror, and I read only the chapters about the dog, skipping the others) -- Laura Ingalls Wilder Oh, how could I forget about The Watchers. Such a fabulous story. That’s a book that I have on my short list of books I want to reread. I loved that book back in the day.
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finaledition
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Post by finaledition on Apr 6, 2018 3:42:54 GMT
I think if I had to use the criteria of only having 1 book while stranded on an island it would for sure be Outlander.
But I have to say The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne is still with me. That was a perfect book to me.
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Mystie
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Jun 25, 2014 19:53:37 GMT
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Post by Mystie on Apr 6, 2018 4:26:50 GMT
My all time favorite is The Family Nobody Wanted. It is about a pastor and his wife post WW2 who end up adopting 12 mixed race children. This was just not done at that time. I first read it in 5 th grade and bought a copy of it in a Scholastic book order. I have had that book ever since then. The Little House series. My 3rd grade teacher did the first 3 books as read aloud a to us each day. When I found our there were more in the series, I insisted that my Mom had to take me to the library to get the next one. I have read them multiple times over the years. I also have an ancient Scholastic copy of The Family Nobody Wanted! I absolutely adored that book when I was a kid. I read sometime in the past few years that the parents of that family divorced, maybe in the 1960s? I was crushed. And the Little House books...well, those are some of my happiest childhood memories.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2018 4:33:31 GMT
Fahrenheit 451. Also A Brave New World.
Le Petit Prince is great too
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Post by cawoman on Apr 6, 2018 4:39:24 GMT
Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (I love everything I have read by her but this one was special) Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons. I read this one years ago and think about it still. birukitty. I also read Dove around the same time you did. I too loved it. Fast forward about 15-20 years ago. I was on a flight. A woman sitting next to me and I talked the entire flight (very rare for me, I usually read). It turned out the author was a close friend of hers and she was just coming from visiting him and his family. At that time, he was a builder of fabulous log cabin homes.
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Post by birukitty on Apr 6, 2018 17:12:07 GMT
Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See (I love everything I have read by her but this one was special) Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons. I read this one years ago and think about it still. birukitty . I also read Dove around the same time you did. I too loved it. Fast forward about 15-20 years ago. I was on a flight. A woman sitting next to me and I talked the entire flight (very rare for me, I usually read). It turned out the author was a close friend of hers and she was just coming from visiting him and his family. At that time, he was a builder of fabulous log cabin homes. Oh my gosh! What an experience. I think you are the first person I've ever met who has read this book. That is such an amazing story about you being on a flight and meeting that woman who was a friend of Robin Lee Graham. Especially since she was just coming back from visiting him and his family! I know that at the end of the book he mentions moving to the woods, building a log cabin and living the natural life with his wife Patty and their young daughter. Guess he'd had enough of the sea. Looks like he'd turned that experience into become a famous builder of log cabins. Good for him. I always thought he was an exceptional person for going to sea in such a small sailboat at the age of 16 with no modern affinities like we have now. He used a sextant to find his way as to where he was! And he completed his journey around the world. I would have been so excited sitting next to this woman. What a great experience for you.
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Post by mygigiscraps on Apr 6, 2018 19:43:36 GMT
I have two that are so old, I think one you can't even find anymore. Both are historical romances and I haven't read that genre for years. A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Devereaux Delta Blood by Barbara Ferry Johnson That Jude Deveraux book is also one of my all-time favorites! When I started reading the first Outlander book, A Knight in Shining Armor came to mind.
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cardmakerkim
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Mar 29, 2018 19:44:23 GMT
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Post by cardmakerkim on Apr 6, 2018 20:18:06 GMT
I've been a long-time lurker here but have never posted. Now that I see this thread about most-loved books (and get to scribble down names of new books to read!), I thought I'd jump in.
I echo some of the others listed here and add a few:
- Harry Potter series - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and pretty much anything by Douglas Adams) - American Gods, Neverwhere, and just about everything else by Neil Gaiman - The Hobbit and other Tolkien works. The moment I read, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," I sigh happily and settle in for the story again. - Fahrenheit 451 - When I was in 6th grade, I became very ill and had to be kept at home for more than a month. One of my teachers knew I loved to read, so she sent home a copy of this book with my classwork. I remember burning up from a fever, sitting in an ice bath, but only focusing on the story (and many layers of meaning within). I haven't reread it for a while and need to dig it up again. - The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson - I loved the stories-within-a-story aspect of this book and was completely sucked into the main characters' world. - Children of Men by P.D. James and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - I list these two equally because they have similar story lines and messages. Futuristic (although not too distant!) dystopian novels that seem very, very possible based on our current mess of a society. Both of them filled me with sadness... and then a little hope that maybe we're not completely doomed. - A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson - Garak is my favorite character in the ST: DS9 series, and this book (written by the actor who played him) is just so completely PERFECT regarding the character. I love this account of his entire life before/after the events in the tv series, and I've read it a few times. Even if you're not a Star Trek fan or haven't watched DS9, the story is so enjoyable, and Garak beautifully dances the line between villain, hero, and observer.
And my current favorite:
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. As a child of the 80s, I felt deeply nostalgic reading about pop culture that I lived/loved. And given the state of the world and advancing technology, I find the story to be completely believable (even probable). I read it 5-6 times before I even heard they were making a movie. I'm still on the fence about seeing the movie because although I LOVED reading about the challenges and games, watching someone play a video game to complete a quest is like watching someone eat cake. Wouldn't you rather eat the cake than watch? And I can already tell from the trailers that the story was altered a LOT.
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MsKnit
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Post by MsKnit on Apr 6, 2018 23:24:36 GMT
I've been a long-time lurker here but have never posted. Now that I see this thread about most-loved books (and get to scribble down names of new books to read!), I thought I'd jump in. I echo some of the others listed here and add a few: - Harry Potter series - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and pretty much anything by Douglas Adams) - American Gods, Neverwhere, and just about everything else by Neil Gaiman - The Hobbit and other Tolkien works. The moment I read, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," I sigh happily and settle in for the story again. - Fahrenheit 451 - When I was in 6th grade, I became very ill and had to be kept at home for more than a month. One of my teachers knew I loved to read, so she sent home a copy of this book with my classwork. I remember burning up from a fever, sitting in an ice bath, but only focusing on the story (and many layers of meaning within). I haven't reread it for a while and need to dig it up again. - The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson - I loved the stories-within-a-story aspect of this book and was completely sucked into the main characters' world. - Children of Men by P.D. James and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - I list these two equally because they have similar story lines and messages. Futuristic (although not too distant!) dystopian novels that seem very, very possible based on our current mess of a society. Both of them filled me with sadness... and then a little hope that maybe we're not completely doomed. - A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson - Garak is my favorite character in the ST: DS9 series, and this book (written by the actor who played him) is just so completely PERFECT regarding the character. I love this account of his entire life before/after the events in the tv series, and I've read it a few times. Even if you're not a Star Trek fan or haven't watched DS9, the story is so enjoyable, and Garak beautifully dances the line between villain, hero, and observer. And my current favorite: - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. As a child of the 80s, I felt deeply nostalgic reading about pop culture that I lived/loved. And given the state of the world and advancing technology, I find the story to be completely believable (even probable). I read it 5-6 times before I even heard they were making a movie. I'm still on the fence about seeing the movie because although I LOVED reading about the challenges and games, watching someone play a video game to complete a quest is like watching someone eat cake. Wouldn't you rather eat the cake than watch? And I can already tell from the trailers that the story was altered a LOT. I feel the exact same way about The Hobbit.
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Post by mnmloveli on Apr 6, 2018 23:37:23 GMT
I've been a long-time lurker here but have never posted. Now that I see this thread about most-loved books (and get to scribble down names of new books to read!), I thought I'd jump in. I echo some of the others listed here and add a few: - Harry Potter series - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and pretty much anything by Douglas Adams) - American Gods, Neverwhere, and just about everything else by Neil Gaiman - The Hobbit and other Tolkien works. The moment I read, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," I sigh happily and settle in for the story again. - Fahrenheit 451 - When I was in 6th grade, I became very ill and had to be kept at home for more than a month. One of my teachers knew I loved to read, so she sent home a copy of this book with my classwork. I remember burning up from a fever, sitting in an ice bath, but only focusing on the story (and many layers of meaning within). I haven't reread it for a while and need to dig it up again. - The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson - I loved the stories-within-a-story aspect of this book and was completely sucked into the main characters' world. - Children of Men by P.D. James and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - I list these two equally because they have similar story lines and messages. Futuristic (although not too distant!) dystopian novels that seem very, very possible based on our current mess of a society. Both of them filled me with sadness... and then a little hope that maybe we're not completely doomed. - A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson - Garak is my favorite character in the ST: DS9 series, and this book (written by the actor who played him) is just so completely PERFECT regarding the character. I love this account of his entire life before/after the events in the tv series, and I've read it a few times. Even if you're not a Star Trek fan or haven't watched DS9, the story is so enjoyable, and Garak beautifully dances the line between villain, hero, and observer. And my current favorite: - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. As a child of the 80s, I felt deeply nostalgic reading about pop culture that I lived/loved. And given the state of the world and advancing technology, I find the story to be completely believable (even probable). I read it 5-6 times before I even heard they were making a movie. I'm still on the fence about seeing the movie because although I LOVED reading about the challenges and games, watching someone play a video game to complete a quest is like watching someone eat cake. Wouldn't you rather eat the cake than watch? And I can already tell from the trailers that the story was altered a LOT. Look for the weekly reading thread. You’ll get lots of great book recommendations there.
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Post by jillonthehill on Apr 7, 2018 1:08:14 GMT
I cannot stress this enough- if you loved the book DO NOT SEE THE MOVIE. I also loved the book and was extremely disappointed in the movie.
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