Your Favorite books

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Tue, 04-18-2006 - 3:49pm

Do you have favorite books? What is the title? Who is the Author? What is it about? What did you love about it? Do you read different kinds of books?

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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 7:38am

YOu have opened a whole can of worms with that question:) I read all kinds of books and try to mix up the genres so I'm never locked into one grouping. I can enjoy a bodice ripper romance and then read a powerfully moving novel. Mysteries tend to be my favorite genre- it's all Nancy Drew's fault.

My favorite book? One book that I absolutely love and would recommend to anyone is Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Mists of Avalon." Why do I love this book? If you read other 'Arthurian' books there always seems to be good and evil. In this rendition the characters are more product of their environment and the events around them. Morgaine is not the
evil sorceress we've been led to believe. Merlin is not a mighty magician without faults. The characters are real and not up on some lofty pedestal waiting for a fall.

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 8:37pm

My favorite fiction book has got to be Dean Koontz's Watchers.

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Fri, 04-21-2006 - 10:47pm

Oh gosh, I can't pick just ONE favorite. I read all kinds of books, and my favorites vary depending on genre, and what I'm in the mood to read at any given moment! I will say that ALL my favorites are fiction. (I do read some nonfiction, particularly biographies and histories, but it's NOT my favorite section in the library or bookstore by any stretch of the imagination.)

Some books I've particularly enjoyed include:

The Widow's War (can't remember the author here)

The Historian by Elizabeth K

Into The Wilderness, Dawn On A Distant Shore et al by Sara Donati. (historical fantasy/romance, based on another favorite classic series of mine, James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales....you know, Last Of The Mohicans, The Plainsman, The Pioneers, The Deerslayer.)

Jane Eyre. (Need I say it's by Charlotte Bronte, LOL?)

The Good Earth and Pavilion Of Women by Pearl Buck.

David Weber's Honor Harrington saga (On Basilisk Station, In Enemy Hands, etc.)

Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series.

Terry Goodkind's Sword Of Truth series.

Kathy Reichs Temperance Brennan series

Sara Paretsky's VI Warshawsky series

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Mon, 04-24-2006 - 10:42am

Wow! Awesome questions to which it would take a book in itself to answer! LOL This could get long!!!!!

Here is a rundown of some of my most favorite books:

Dee Henderson:
O'Malley Family Series:

DANGER IN THE SHADOWS (Prequel)
Sara's terrified. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with former pro-football player Adam Black, a man everyone knows. Sara's been hidden away in the witness protection program, her safety dependent on staying invisible - and loving Adam could get her killed.

THE NEGOTIATOR (O'Malley #1)
Dave Richman from Danger in the Shadows is back. He is about to meet Kate O'Malley and his life will never be the same. She's a hostage negotiator. He protects people. He's about to find out that falling in love with a hostage negotiator is one thing, but keeping her safe is another!

THE GUARDIAN (O'Malley #2)
A federal judge has been murdered. There is only one witness. And an assassin wants her dead. U.S. Marshal Marcus O'Malley thought he knew the risks of the assignment...He was wrong.

THE TRUTH SEEKER (O'Malley #3)
Women are turning up dead. And Lisa O'Malley has a habit of walking into crime scenes, curious. She's a forensic pathologist and mysteries are her domain. U.S. Marshal Quinn Diamond has found loving her is easier than keeping her safe. Lisa's found the killer, and now she's missing too…

THE PROTECTOR (O'Malley #4)
Jack O'Malley is a fireman who is fearless when it comes to facing an inferno. But when an arsonist begins targeting his district, his shift, his friends, Jack faces the ultimate challenge: protecting the lady who saw the arsonist before she pays an even higher price…

THE HEALER (O'Malley #5)
Rachel O'Malley works disasters for a living, her specialty helping children through trauma. When a school shooting rips through her community, she finds herself dealing with more than just grief among the children she is trying to help. There's a secret. One of them was there. One of them saw the shooting. And the gun is still missing...

THE RESCUER (O'Malley #6)
Stephen O'Malley is a paramedic who has been rescuing people all his life. His friend Meghan is in trouble: Stolen jewels are turning up in interesting places and she's in the middle of it. Stephen's about to run into a night he will never forget: a kidnapping, a tornado, and a race to rescue the woman he loves…

Terri Blackstock (awesome Christian author...mystery/thrillers):
My favorite book so far by her is:

LAST LIGHT—
Today, the world as you know it will end. No need to turn off the lights.
Your car suddenly stalls and won’t restart. You can’t call for help because your cell phone is dead. Everyone around you is having the same problem . . . and it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Your city is in a blackout. Communication is cut off. Hospital equipment won’t operate. And airplanes are falling from the sky. Is it a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse? (Sequel to this coming out in July!)

Karen Kingsbury:

There are multiple books by Karen that I love. This is the latest I read:

EVEN NOW(heartwarming and heartbreaking story!):
Shane Galanter is ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who remembers a love that hasn’t faded with time? Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent that gave up on happily-ever-after years ago—when it was ripped away from her. So why is life so empty? Emily Anderson is a college freshman raised by her grandparents, about to take her first internship as a journalist. But before she can move ahead, she discovers a love story whose tragic ending came with her birth. As a result, she is drawn to look back and search out the mother she’s never met, and the father she never knew.

Other titles by Karen Kingsbury I loved:
Oceans Apart
9/11 Series (One Tuesday Morning and Beyond Tuesday Morning)

Nicholas Sparks:

You know this one by his story turned movie: The Notebook (awesome book!)
Other titles I loved by this author:
Message in a Bottle
A Walk to Remember
The Rescue
A Bend in the Road
The Guardian
The Wedding (which is a sequel to The Notebook)
True Believer

Keep in mind if you read any of the books by Nicholas Sparks to keep tissue nearby...never before have books made me laugh and cry! Some of these had me balling my eyes out!!

Happy Reading! If you have any questions about any of these, need more info, or wanna chat about them feel free to email me!! (crazgrl8@yahoo.com)

Lori

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Mon, 04-24-2006 - 11:38am

Welcome, Heather *g*!


Welcome to the board, and thank you for the question.

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Mon, 04-24-2006 - 2:19pm
Oh boy I read so many different things.Some of my favorite older books are Little Women,The Outsiders,It,The Stand,Misery,Watchers,I liked some odf Danille Steel's Older novels.I am just beginning to get attached to a new genre of books the cozy mysteries.So far I like Joanne Flukes series,Cleo Coyle's coffe house mysteries and starting a new one by India Ink.I love ghost stories,vampire stories,anything about witchcraft.I also just discovered Sharon Owens and Cecelia Ahern which are 2 of my new favorite authors.There is a basic idea of what i like.

 

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Mon, 04-24-2006 - 4:57pm
I have so many but some of my favorite authors (that I will always pick up and read) have been: John Sandford (Prey Series);
Patricia Cornwall series;
Sue Grafton (a, b, c series)
Janet Evanovich ( number series);
James Patterson series;
Elizabeth Berg misc;
Anita Shreve misc;
Alice Hoffman misc;
Dean Koontz misc
Robin Cook misc.
Jane Austen all;
Edith Wharton misc. to name a few!
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Tue, 04-25-2006 - 5:18pm

**My fave character from it was Einstein =)


I LOVE Einstein!!!

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Tue, 04-25-2006 - 10:50pm
When I eventually get around to rereading my Koontz books (50 of them, give or take
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Wed, 04-26-2006 - 7:12pm

OK , you asked for it ...

I like these books because although they are under the Horror genre they are so much more than that

The Last Ship - by William Brinkley

A Gift Upon The Shore - by M.K. Wren

Robert McCammon :
- Swan Song
- Mine
- Gone South
- Blue World

Stephen King :
- The Stand
- The Mist
- The Dead Zone
- Salems Lot
- The Green Mile

Dean Koontz :
- Watchers
- Intensity
- Phantoms
- The Bad Place
- Odd Thomas

I love Historical Fiction in almost every time and place ...

- James Mitcheners : Chesapeake, Hawaii, Centennial, The Source, etc.

- Jean M. Auel : The Clan of The Cave Bear series

- Lucy Maud Montgomery : Anne of Green Gables series

- Diana Gabaldon : Outlander series

- Jack Finney : Time + Again and its sequel : From Time to Time

And I love these authors and their books just because they make me feel good ...

Harry Potter series - whimsical books about a school for wizards

Mauve Binchey - all her books - about friends and lovers in modern day Ireland

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