DFW Rabid Readers: reading and discussion group

Sea78

I am still at the stage where I can't decide - but I love Maya Angelou - her autobiographies - starting with I know why the caged bird sings (I think?!)

Firewalker

Here is what Kittikins posted on the other tread:

Great idea SE999 - here's my list

Favorite book from childhood. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
(the first book I read to my dad)
Favorite thriller Perfume by Patrick Susskind /
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safon
Science Fiction haven't read any
Science Fantasy ditto
Favorite Shakespear comedy Midsummer Night's Dream
Romantic novel Alphabet Weekends/ Things I want my daughters to know both
by Elizabeth Noble
Favorite Austin or Bronte novel Jane Eyre, fond memories of sitting reading this with my granny
Favorite Agatha Christie Hmmm, read nearly all of them in my childhood, prefer Miss
Marple to Hercule Poirot
Favorite book when a student most things by John Irving
Favorite book as a teenager I capture the Castle by Dodie Smith / The Pursuit
of Love by Nancy Mitford

savingwannabe

You are all posting author's i have loved. i am going to enjoy this. I wish i had more time to read. I shall have to make time.

Firewalker

savingwannabe wrote: »

You are all posting author's i have loved. i am going to enjoy this. I wish i had more time to read. I shall have to make time.

Hey, this is spooky - just read the 1 minute read on Paolo Coelho's blog and it is about killing our dreams. The first thing he says is that we kill out dreams because we claim we don't have time - but the busiest people he knows always have time for things. Priority? Organisation? I wonder.

Firewalker

savingwannabe

I have made time in some ways but clearly ".....i have many miles to go before i sleep.."(Robert Frost).

It is all a learning curve for me but i shall get there in the end. I am determined.

Aesop

I have read so many diverse books and also books by my favourite authors:

Patricia Cornwell
Sue Grafton
PD James
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
Colin Dexter
Robert Crais
Harlen Coben
Mary Higgins Clark
Michael Crichton

Non fiction
Bill Cosby - these are so worth reading! especially ones on parenthood and love and marriage

Maya Angelou

and I can't remember the other ones I used to read. I read a lot of non fiction books, including autobiographies.

I read The Two of Us, my life with John Thaw, by Sheila Hancock
Dear Fatty, by Dawn French
Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly and Pamela Stephenson

I think one of my favourites and I have many(!) has to be The Lottery by Jonathan Tulloch and also by him, The Season Ticket which was made into a film Purely Belter.

elantan

Books books books .... One of my biggest passions ... I have so many I love and a few I didn't enjoy as well

moo2moo

Book most likely to make you vomit whilst reading : Kathryn Harrison - The Binding Chair

Book most likely to make you guffaw out loud in public : Kathy Lette - Foetal Attraction (the best opening page ever!) and Altar Ego

Books to make your mind go meh which are enjoyable for the sheer fact of being total gibberish - Terry Pratchetts Discworld series - impossible to decide which I like best

Favourite childhood book: Roald Dahls [STRIKE]The Witches[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]Georges Marvelous Medicine[/STRIKE] Revolting Rhymes

Favourite book to read out loud to children : Julia Donaldson and Axel the unspellable's Room on a Broom

Most memorable teenage book ever: Judy Blume - Forever (mostly because it hinted at s e x and the nuns hadn't burnt it! unlike the pages in my GCSE biology books which covered forms of contraception over which was stuck a papragraph on the rhythm method.)

MicheH

My favs don't seem to follow any particular genre as I have read so many diverse titles from many a different author.

I'm agreeing with a couple before me that To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a favourite of mine but haven't read it for about 15 years, a chance/excuse to read it again with more life experience behind me would be fab, and yes savingwannabe, Atticus Finch was the man. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." has stayed with me and is such a powerful statement for a group of teenagers learning to live/accept and be accepted in society.

Ok, some of my favourite reads:

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Little Women (author escapes me)
Watership Down
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (I think)
My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller

Also, :eek: I have never picked up a Harry Potter book

Sunnylooloo

Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger - I read this later in life and loved it!
The Lovely Bones - fab book but I was so disappointed when I saw the films - how many films can ruin a good book!
Little Women is a great book - i think every young girl should read it (i think Lousia M Alcott?? )
When I was younger I must say I loved Famous Five and Secret Seven...... I longed to go to boarding school.

Now I love thrillers and of course the odd trashy novel.....

Hmm Agetha christie - so many................ classic Murder on the Orient Express

I love Sherlock Holmes books too

and I also read Dracular - again a good classic read.

This really is a great thread!!

Got to admit - i read all Harry Potters (couple of times!)