All Time Favorite Book

[Beekissed]

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Not really into romances but I liked these also...guess because of the whole country flavor of them.

 

[BearSwampChick]

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Oh, I LOVE Everyone Poops! I read that to my kids when they were little--a long time ago!

 

[Chicky Joy]

If you are looking for something entertaining, and laugh out loud funny I would go for the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. All of the titles contain numbers, 14 was just released last month. I've read all of them, multiple times. They are my absolute favorite books.

I also just read The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (sp?). It was very good.

A few of my other favorite authors are Patricia Cornwell, Dean Koontz, Kay Hooper, Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, James Patterson...the list goes on and on.

 

[Henrietta23]

I love the Stephanie Plum series as well. I also like the Anne of Green Gables books including Rilla of Ingelside, about Anne's youngest daughter. I've reread those almost every summer since my grandmother first gave them to me in the early 70s.

 

[MooseHillFarm]

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Ditto on Mockingbird. Named one of my cats Scout. Book I liked at 13 that totally resonated in a different way as an adult was, "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Way up on the all time favorites list is "That Old Ace in the Hole" by Annie Proux. In fact, may have to re-read it soon and I'm not a re-reader.

 

[BearSwampChick]

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Ditto on Mockingbird. Named one of my cats Scout. Book I liked at 13 that totally resonated in a different way as an adult was, "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Way up on the all time favorites list is "That Old Ace in the Hole" by Annie Proux. In fact, may have to re-read it soon and I'm not a re-reader.

Have you read Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings? I visited her home in Cross Creek, Florida when I visited my sister last year. It's right down the road from my sister's house. It's a very interesting tour if you ever get the chance to go there. I bought the book and read it in 2 days. It was fascinating and made more so by seeing all the things she talked about.

 

[sundance]

I usually read a book every couple days,, (sorry, hate romance books) Love who done it. Allison brennan, Craig parshall, Dee Henderson. J.A. Jance Terri blackstock. Also don't like john grissom, Steven king gives me nightmares, john kellerman needs his mouth washed out with soap,I belong to book of the month and usually hit every yard sale that has books. I donate to the small libraries in our country so that they can buy other books with the money the state gives them and still have lots of different books.

marrie

 

[MooseHillFarm]

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Ditto on Mockingbird. Named one of my cats Scout. Book I liked at 13 that totally resonated in a different way as an adult was, "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Way up on the all time favorites list is "That Old Ace in the Hole" by Annie Proux. In fact, may have to re-read it soon and I'm not a re-reader.

Have you read Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings? I visited her home in Cross Creek, Florida when I visited my sister last year. It's right down the road from my sister's house. It's a very interesting tour if you ever get the chance to go there. I bought the book and read it in 2 days. It was fascinating and made more so by seeing all the things she talked about.

Yes I did the tour of Rawlings homestead while visiting my mother in Ocala! It was a perfect day trip, and we were impressed by the tour, and preservation of the home and belongings. Our only regret was that the Yearling restaurant down the road was closed the day we went.
Mom bought Cross Creek Cookery, and I read that dang cook book like it was a novel! (in 2 days) I haven't read Cross Creek though and really must.

 

[ChickenWendy]

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns is awesome. Especially if you are from any small town in the South!
My favorite line is "She's as dead as she will ever be."

I will say this also as an encouragement to parents. I get as many books as I can on CD & my kids and I listen to them on all of our errands during the day. They have fallen in love with good literature as well. We just finished Les Miserable. And my kids loved To Kill A Mocking Bird & Cold Sassy Tree as well. I try to find the unabridged versions with the reader dramatizing otherwise it gets a bit boring. I do have to do some explaining BUT it is so worth it - because whether they read it themselves or are hearing the whole story read to them - they are taking in great literature! I have a 3 girls & a boy - 13 (girl), 9 (girl), 3 (girl) and 18 months (boy). Even the 3 year old will ask for me to "turn on the story" when we get in the car - especially rather then talk radio!!
Focus on the Family Radio Theater is good also. That's how they heard "The Chronicles of Narnia" and one thing that is nice about those is they stay pretty close to the books.

 

[ChickenWendy]

Also right now I am reading some serious by a great guy from the UK named Conn Iggulden. He wrote a really well done series on Julius Caesar & know I am reading the one he has done on Ghengis Khan. He also wrote a book for boys with his brother - The Dangerous Book For Boys - which I just ordered for my son. It was an effort on his part to keep boys being boys in this age of video games.
It's great historical fiction though. And there was a lot of history - accurately written, but of course he took liberties and he explained in lengthy commentary in the back of the books.

ok i will quit posting on this subject. i read a new book about every 2 days. as soon as i am done with Ghengis Khan, Lord of the Bow I am on to read Dispatches by Michael Kerr - his commentary on the Vietnam War.