is reading considered a hobby? Steinbeck~The Grapes of Wrath

[CoyoteMagic]

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Also Steinbeck's The Old Man and The Sea

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird--book is even better than the movie

Kids books--The Cay, The Island of the Blue Dolphin, Bridge to Tarabithia, It's Like This Cat, Sounder, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

 

[erthymom2]

I would add for older kids:
Hachet and the other books after than in the series
Call of the Wild & White Fang
Johnny Tremain
Slumdog Millionaire


[Kids books--The Cay, The Island of the Blue Dolphin, Bridge to Tarabithia, It's Like This Cat, Sounder, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry]

 

[kagedgoddess]

grapes of wrath was awesome. i kinda get annoyed by those books that dont have a real ending tho. i read it about 5 yrs ago, i was trying to see how many books i could get thru at the library while pregant, lol. every once in a while i think, i wonder what happened to those okies? did they ever get settled? lol

another book that was awesome and kinda similar type genre i guess, is The Poisonwood Bible. anyone read that? i stayed up two days to finish it. its about missionaries in africa. but dont let that fool ya, theyre not preaching. one of the best books ever.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

I think I read Grapes of Wrath in school many moons ago but lately I have read the entire Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood HBO) series of books..they were incredible, very vivid in detail, I hated to be finished with them!!

 

[LaSombra]

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I know what you mean. The ending just kinda leaves you hanging...

never heard of the poisonwood bible. Will keep that in mind, though

thanks

 

[PeggySue]

I have the great joy of working in a bookstore!! Spent every year in school from 2nd grade until graduation being a Librarian's Assistant and it wasn't til I was in my 40s that I finally got a job doing what I LOVE!!
Recently read Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" for the sole purpose of expanding my reading horizons, it was a great book. It inspired an interest in Alexandrian history, so next I read "The Rise and Fall of Alexandria". Just last night I finished Margaret George's "The Memoirs of Cleopatra".....wow was it good! The historical fiction is much more palatable than the clinical history books, and she actually uses small amounts of fiction, she just seems to make facts much easier to read and digest.
This morning I started her "Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles", it already has me engrossed.
Reading is a GREAT hobby. My dogs love it when I pick up a book, it means snuggling and idle petting with my free hand!!!

When it cools off, I look forward to some chicken coop reading!!!

 

[I'M On Island Time]

I love to read. I think I am a book collector. lol

If you liked Grapes of Wrath, you might like The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. It was about immigrants in the Chicago meatpacking warehouses. Sad, but interesting part of history to consider. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Anyone read the Gossip Girl books? I love the TV show, and I read the books. They are for teen girls, but were quick reads and pretty entertaining.

Rita Mae Brown has some good books. She has several foxhunting ones, and then some of her others are just good stories, usually having southern women characters.

I purchased the "Great Books of the Western World." It has 54 volumes of the greatest literature written. Plato, Locke, Shakespeare. It is my goal in life to read all of them. The introduction describes a 10 year plan to complete the series. Amazing! My husband decided if the end of the world happened, we would at least stay entertained with those books. lol

 

[silentrunning]

Grapes of Wrath was great (except for the sucky ending) but East of Eden was better. I don't know what it was about E of E, but I was consumed with that book. Old Man & the Sea was good too.

Doug

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I read The Grapes of Wrath in high school. It was a book made for deeper reading.

When I read for fun, I usually like to read books that I can enjoy at the surface level because literary analysis is part of my job. My favorite genres are fantasy and science fiction.

 

[lisabug]

I have read many of the Steinbeck books. He is one of my favorite authors though my favorite is Travels with Charlie. I love the imagery he paints of the country in it.

More current favs are "The Other Boleyn Girl" and even though I am FULLY a grown up (at 26) I LOVE the twilight series and have read it more than once now (I thought it would be dumb but it wasn't)!