Callie's comments (member since Apr 06, 2009)

Callie's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.

Last night I was rereading Anne of Green Gables. I've read it before, I've seen the movies countless times, but still I choked up at Matthew's death. I think the ability of a book to make you cry is a sign of its greatness, a sign that it touches something deep down inside even when you know it's not "real."

I cry or tear up fairly often at books I read, but the latest was The Memory Keeper's Daughter I cried a lot just over the sadness of the father/son relationship and imagining my little guy growing up so fast, hoping we'll never have that kind of emotional distance between us. I also cry from the children's book, not sure the title, "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always" with the mother and son. Anything about mothers and sons gets me!

I get almost all my books from paperbackswap.com so they are all used. I don't really worry too much about the condition as long as all the pages are there. :) I like used books, knowing that others have shared in the experience of the book I'm reading.

Christina wrote: "Jamie wrote: "She's Come Undone - How many awful things can happen to one person before it stops..."

Atonement is one of my all time fave books; of course to each his own. ;) I read it though having no expectations at all; I'd never heard of it when I picked it up. Did you see the movie by any chance?

Thanks all for the warm welcome. :)

I've read 59 of these books over the course of my life. Strange that Harry Potter series is listed as one isn't? Taken that way, it's one looonnnggg book! :)

Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time is one book that I was disappointed in. I'd heard such great things about it and I'm fascinated by the region (I lived in Central Asia for 5 yrs) but the book was more a long congratulatory (sp?) article on Greg Mortenson than a portrait of the culture. Maybe if I'd have had different expectations I might've liked it more. As for Beloved, I haven't read it since high school, but I loved it at the time. Made me go and track down more Toni Morrison for sure!

Hello all! I've been on Goodreads for awhile; first time to join a group. I'm a lifelong book lover who's married to someone that takes pride in only once ever having read a book for pleasure in his life (and it was not actually for pleasure, it was an assignment that he just happened to like.) Love him, but that is a bummer. I'm always on the lookout for fellow people to talk books with. :)