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Comment by wiffledust on October 19, 2010 at 10:44am

oh this sounds good...you have to come back and tell us what to do!!!!!

Comment by Carissa Galow on October 9, 2010 at 1:25pm

Thanks :) Yeah, The Alchemist by Michael Scott is the first in a series of four, though the fourth one isn't out yet. It's based on Nicholas Flamel, who was a real guy. He is also referenced in the first Harry Potter book, the creator of the Sorcerer's Stone. Anyway, yeah I like to read a variety of things. Revelations can indeed be scary, but it's also a view of what's to come...it makes you think and hopeful for when it's all over and we're with Him.

Comment by wiffledust on October 9, 2010 at 11:37am

i thought this list was great, carissa. although the book of Revelations is scary as can be!!! isn't The Alchemist by Paul Cuelo? is that a different one you've got there? I didn't know anyone past my generation still read Go Ask Alice, but I enjoyed that when I was young. And the Chronicles of Narnia...yay! So glad you have Mockingbird and The Scarlet Letter on there....excellent choices. Great list, girl!

Comment by Carissa Galow on October 9, 2010 at 10:51am

Lisa said I should share this with the group, so here it is....on facebook, a friend started this thing called 20 books. He said to take a few moments to think of 20 books that have stuck with you over the years...so this is what I came up with:

1) Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

2) Eragon by Christopher Paolini

3) Chronicles of Narnia (all seven) by C.S. Lewis

4) Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer

5) The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

6) The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks

7) The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

8) New York (multiple authors)

9) The book of Psalms (In the Bible)

10) The book of Revelations (Bible)

11) Ephesians (Bible)

12) A Tangled Web by Judith Michaels

13) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

14) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

15) Daughter of Fire by Quinn Taylor Evans

16) White Oleander by Janet Fitch

17) Winne the Pooh on Problem Solving by Roger E. Allen & Stephen D. Allen

18) The Alchemist by Michael Scott

19) The Tale of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

20) The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin

Comment by William Joseph George-Stilianess on October 3, 2010 at 9:05pm

I am currently reading, A Movable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway. I had come across is quite by accident as it was mentioned in a film and played a significant role in the film. (City of Angels) I wish to read this book to make further connections and broaden my literature understandings. Has anyone else read this book? If so, what are your thoughts?

Comment by wiffledust on September 29, 2010 at 2:56pm

hi, bettina!so glad you're back! thanks for those great suggestions. as someone who is in the northeast, i must say that autumn is a great time to be up here. after that, though, bettina..be happy you are where you are!!! ......maggie, to kill a mockingbird is without a doubt one of the best books ever written and certainly one that changed my life. they are great characters for sure. and a great american story in every way. but you're so right that the accents are done so perfectly. it reminds me of how well they're done in huckleberry finn. .....

as for self help books, at one point in my life, i was totally into them. but i'm much less so now. now it has to be something really great. and sometimes they come along. but they DO prey on people's misfortunes when they are the same old thing cranked out. and they make up such a huge section of borders compared to the literature, it DOES make you wonder!

Comment by Bettina Woolard on September 29, 2010 at 2:25pm

I'm reading The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett. I think that it was written around the turn of the last century. As a New Englander by birth now living in the South West, it makes me nostalgic.

Here's another book I read recently that I really enjoyed: My Father's Paradise. It's a biography of the author's dad, who's the world's leading expert on Aramaic. That may sound dry but, believe me, it isn't.

Comment by wiffledust on September 29, 2010 at 1:35pm

thanks, sheree! what a great title...mudbound!!! and what a terrific description you gave. you made me want to reach into that story right now...and i just may!!! helen, the self help books tend to say the same thing over and over again, it's true. once in a little while, though, someone does something with a new twist that's fun.

Comment by Sheree on September 29, 2010 at 9:37am

Just finished Hillary Jordan's "Mudbound" and have started Jeannette Walls' "Half Broke Horses."

"Mudbound" was an amazingly well-written story that had my interest from the first page. The dialogue is very real and the characters come to life immediately. Post WWII cotton farming in the Delta, white land-owner with sharecroppers (black and white), broken down farm that becomes isolated from civilization when it rains, KKK. Excellent read. I'd never heard of it before I saw it on the shelf.

The Jeannette Walls book is one I've heard about for awhile and follows her memoir, "The Glass Castle." It's the true-life novel about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. I'd seen Jeannette on 20/20 a few years ago and found her life fascinating. Homeless to well-heeled daughter with a mother living in an abandoned New York tenement. I haven't read her memoir but plan to if the novel doesn't disappoint. Just now, I'm having a bit of trouble with her writing style and find her a bit hard to follow. The chapters are short and choppy and so far I'm having a hard time staying interested.

Comment by Helen on September 29, 2010 at 8:34am

Ooh, I've been to Jim Thorpe! (Please excuse my random interjection!)

I've never read any self-help books, but whenever I've come across those kind of messages I've found it interesting that it feels like someone telling you something you already know, but you just didn't realise it.

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