What is your favorite book ? - Page 2

[indigolilybear]

OOH!! "the mists of avalon" by marion zimmer bradley. this is such a good book....the king arthur stuff from a woman's perspective. i re=read this one about every year. so inspiring and just takes you away.

also like isabel allende but I didn't like daughter of fortune that much. Paula is my favorite, she lived a lot of history and it also beautifully written, even includes a homebirth.

i also like about half of oprah's books...the last one i loved was backroads by tawni o'dell. was such a tragic book but i couldn't stop reading it.

or how about louise erdrich's "blue jay's dance" it is a journal of her babies' first years, but really poetically and philosophically beautiful. really nice. and again...homebirths!! she is a prominent native american writer whose fiction is great too...i liked the antelope wife.

i love books....good luck

[cara]

I really enjoy looking at this thread. So many of you have similar taste. I loved THe Poisonbook Bible and THe Mists of Avalon. I just read A Small Rain by Madeleine L'Engle. She is famous for A Wrinkle in TIme which is a wonderful childrens book. A Small Rain is an adult book about a young pianist growing up. It is a beautiful book. Let me know if you like it. She actually wrote A Small Rain when she was young and then wrote a sequel 30 years later. (I haven't read it yet)

[oceanmommy]

This is so cool, I will be able to read for months with all these suggestions (would still love more too). I am writing every single one down and will look for them at the library. I have been trying to get "mists of avalon" for almost a year now ! Well, I go like once a month and it is very popular, never in. I also like most of Oprah's books, but I do want something different too.

Thank you everyone !! You have made me smile

[ladylee]

Happy reading, OM--and thank *you* for asking--I always need a good book, too!

[onehipmomma]

Kazmir: I loved the first Outlander book, not so fussy about the rest though.

CanoBeans: I haven't read anything else by Jerry Spinelli, let me know what you think of Stargirl!

[elnachick]

A couple to add to the list that should be at most libraries, the two novels by Wally Lamb (both were Oprah books, fwiw), She's Come Undone, and the second is I Know This Much is True. Both are dark in many ways but also celebrate the human spirit (I can't believe I just wrote that phrase but they really do!). Good reads! As a heads up, both do deal quite significantly and seriously with mental illness, so be aware of that fellow readers, if that can be a touchy subject for you.

Oooh, two more! They are essentially a bound version of what started as a daily serial in the San Francisco Chronicle, then became books, and now can be had as two volumes - 28 Barberry Lane, and Return to Barberry Lane, by Armistead Maupin (they made the first three books into miniseries on PBS and Showtime I think, but even if you've seen these it won't spoil the books). The first of the series is called Tales of the City, so if you can find that there should be a list of the whole series in the book (there are six or seven books and I am forgetting a title so I'll spare you). They chronicle the lives of a group of people in San Francisco, in the 70's through the 80's, written at the time, and they are great, fast reads with completely real characters who you get to grow with for years and years, it's neat!

[MSings]

Thanks OM. Here are a few more:
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto Samarai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. On the more traditional (screwed up) relationships side I am addicted to Joanna Trollope (fast reads): Other People's Children etc. I also find many non-fiction books to be as absorbing as fiction (as well as a reminder that I have been blessed):Road Song by Natalie Kusz, The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer, Expecting Adam by Martha Beck

[dddD]

I love this thread! I'm also searching for good books, I can sometimes sneak a peek while nursing.

My all time faves: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee- all about integrity- and Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury- it's about a boy noticing his world, told from the boy's point of view.

Both not new, definitely in the library.