Hi all!
I hope you have gotten a copy of The Lightning Thief and are enjoying it thus far. In the meantime, I was wondering what your favorite book is and why (I know it's hard to choose just one, so if you must put several, then you must :). Then we will all have a trusted resource for a good book recommendation...
As for me...
(and I know Ashlee agrees with me on this one) The Book Thief is by far my favorite book to date. Great writing style, very unique narrator (death), great relationships (her and her papa), gripping story, and although it has a weighty subject material, it still leaves you better than when you picked it up, and makes you feel good and realize what is important in life.
It also depends on what "favorite" category you are talking...
favorite light reading with a cute love story: anything Shannon Hale, especially Book of a Thousand Days
favorite classic: that's a toughy... maybe Tale of two cities, or Little Women
favorite self-help type book: Thinking Body, Dancing Mind
favorite children's book: The Ordinary Princess
favorite book growing up (that I read 100 times): Girl of the Limberlost
so.... a penny for your thoughts...
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uh, oh. Prepare yourself. I can't pick one favorite. It's way too hard (and I'm way low on the waiting list for the only 'lightning thief' book in Logan.)
ReplyDeleteFavorite books growing up:
Ella Enchanted
Chasing Redbird
Favorite Fairytales:
Beauty (retelling of Beauty and the Beast)
Ella Enchanted
Two Princesses of Bamarre
EVERYTHING Shannon Hale
Favorite more serious than the others:
The Secret Life of Bees
A girl of the Limberlost
oldies but goodies:
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (loved it!)
I better stop there. I could go on...
I got the email that we were thinking about Lightning Thief, but I wasn't sure if that was ever decided for certain. So I don't have it, and I probably won't be getting it since we are moving this month.
ReplyDeleteYou know I like most of the same books as you since you are one of my main sources of book recommendations, but I'll still play along.
favorite author: Shannon Hale
favorite classic: To Kill a Mockingbird and I'm also just another sucker for anything by Jane Austin
favorite self-help type book: I don't read many of these, but I would have to go with the 5 Languages of Love, since that is one of the only I have read and I found it quite interesting.
favorite children's book: The Great Brain series and the Harry Potter series. I also loved Walk Two Moons and Ella Enchanted. I just got Beauty in the mail, so that one is next.
favorite book growing up: There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom
I also loved the Chronicles of Narnia and I have really enjoyed CS Lewis's other works lately.
I'm almost done with East of Eden which might be my new favorite classic...depending on how I like the ending:)
Least favorite- Moby-Dick!
Oh gosh...where to start....
ReplyDeleteFavorite Historical Fiction:Johnny Tremain, Girl with a Pearl Earring, My Name is Asher Lev, Pope Joan, Stones in Water, Little Women/Jo's Boys, Little House on the Prairie
Favorite Horror: Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray.I keep meaning to read Frankenstein, but I just haven't gotten around to it.
Favorite Sci-Fi: Ender's Game series, Pastwatch,..pretty much anything Orson Scott Card! The Uglies series, The Host, A Wrinkle in Time series
Favorite Fantasy: Wicked (and other Gregory MacGuire stuff), The Looking Glass Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Peter and the Starcatchers etc. (Lots of spin-offs of fairytales I've noticed!)
Favorite Love stories: Anything Jane Austen. Anything Twilight.
Fiction: Quilter's Apprentice, Persian Pickle Club, Anne of Green Gables, The Phantom's Tollbooth, The Westing Game, anything Lois Lowry, Where the Red Fern Grows, Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Self Help/Other weird Categories: Return to Modesty, My Grandfather's Blessings, The Moral Dimensions of Teaching, The Screwtape Letters
Favorite Poets: Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, William Shakespeare
This was probably waaaayyy to long-winded, but such is my prose! Time keeps adding more books, so let's blame it on my old age. Yea. We'll go with that!
Oh! I shouldn't even bother...but favorite classics: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Animal Farm.
ReplyDeleteDone...for now...
I'm not as well read as all of you so my book choices are limited to:
ReplyDeleteReligious: Lighten up
Really helpful when teaching R.S.
Short and fast: Jurassic Park
Sorry to say, I enjoyed the movie more.
Thought provoking: The Giver
Loved this one and the lessons it can teach us about life and choices.
Just for fun: Chicken Soup For the Latter Day Saint Woman.(?)I think that's the title.
Love to laugh and this did it for me.
Self-Help: Born to Rebel
Just because this kind of stuff interests me.
I don't know if it helps any one or not. I'm sure you all have read most if not all of these. I am going to try to broaden my horizons and keep up with the reading group. Wish me luck.
My faves are in general: anything Jane Austen, A Tale of Two Cities
ReplyDeleteFantasy: Elantris and the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, A Wrinkle in Time
Self-Help: The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriages by Dr. Laura, and The Mommy Manual by Barbara Curtis (READ THIS MOMS!!)
Juvenile: Harry Potter, the Anne of Green Gables series, and Little Women
Also, I don't know if I'd classify this as a "fave" but some good brain candy reading, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander Mcall-Smith
It looks like you all have read most of my faves, but I've got a lot of recommendations that I can head to the library with! :)
I am posting this for my aunt Murlene who is a Mission mother over the Madrid Spain mission right now and for some reason wasn't able to post her comments:
ReplyDeleteHi Shayla, Chelsea, and all,
I'm not really part of the book club, but can't resist adding my 2 cents worth:
Just finished: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Wonderful Read!
Also love: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Also love: Mitford Series by Jan Karon. VERY uplifting and funny.
Jane Austen and To Kill a Mockingbird go without saying! As does Girl of the Limberlost (I read it first!!!!)
For light reading: almost anything by Georgette Heyer (Regency Historical romances)
I love reading your comments on books.