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What are your favorite books and why?
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Childhood: Watership Down (I was utterly obsessed)Adolescence: To Kill a Mockingbird
20s the Susan Howatch Starbridge series
30s we Need to Talk About Kevin
40s How To Stop Time
50s Young Mungo
(far too many to pick out one all time favourite
The Roads Chosen (a trilogy)
Fiction this might be, but routed in the truth of what is happening in the Former Soviet Union. The social issues that this collides with is enough to bring shivers down the spine.
My current favoriteAmerican Vampire, Vol. 1
Characters created by Stephen King & Scott Snyder of DC Batman, Swamp Thing fame
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Graphic Novel
Tremendously enjoyable horror-action based in the wild west.
My review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
On the Same Page I just love everything about it, the storyline, the way the relationship progressed and how they handled the problems, I just couldn't stop reading it
Kat wrote: "What are your favorite books and why?I'll start!
Harry Potter series. This was probably the first book that really got me into reading. I love that it compels the imagination to transport me to..."
Loved your solo travel admission. Having the courage, inner resolve or grit to solo travel is like breathing air for the first time...it gives you life. Just returned from a 35 day solo trip, 10,000 mile, driving from Michigan to Alaska...and it was mind-bending. Did my wife totally understand, probably not...but she knew it was something l had to do. There's a freedom that comes along with solo travel...that most people don't/can't understand. You keep being you and own your dreams...and let the nay-sayers live their society-altered lives.
To quote Confucius, "We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one."
So, the sooner you realize that...the better.
The Roads Chosen (a trilogy)
Fiction this might be...
Brian wrote: "Kat wrote: "What are your favorite books and why?I'll start!
Harry Potter series. This was probably the first book that really got me into reading. I love that it compels the imagination to tra..."
Oh thank you so much! I love to hear that! That adventure sounds like a lifechaging experience, and I'm so glad you were able to do that.
Poppy wrote: "The Roads Chosen (a trilogy)Fiction this might be..."
Hi, I'm Dottie. My homepage has just recommended this book on the basis of what is on my bookshelf.
Powerless, I love the story, I don't think I have a good reason. It's the feeling when you finish a book and you feel that the story becomes yours...🫠❤️
The Roads Chosen: the trilogy.
The story is so real and presents for the reader the social issues (damage) decades of organised criminality can do to a community. #1 allows for the involvement of Britain's intelligence agencies. Why that is done becomes clear in #2. As I said, in my review of #1, I see this as a story without equal. It stands alone as an adventure/espionage/thriller that captures the tragedy the ordinary people of former Soviet states face today.
Gosh, where to start!?Right off the bat, Lord of the Rings comes to mind. My father read me The Hobbit at age six, and that love really blossomed from there. I'm now 30, and my dad came to help me mount a TV over the weekend. When we finished he said, "Put something on, let's see how it looks." And we watched, shoulder to shoulder as that old guy with shaking arms accidentally fired an arrow into an army of Uruk hai while Aragorn yelled, "HOLD!" before the battle of Helm's Deep.
We're still creating memories with that one.
Harry Potter, another legendary! I was one of those lucky people who got to stand in lines for the films and had the stories widen my imagination to levels I was always aware it could likely go, but had never challenged it to stretch to.
As I've gotten older, I've also come to appreciate books like 'The Operator,' and 'Bait of Satan'. Abby Jimenez is one of my very most favorite authors as an adult, and it is made even better that she's a GEM of a human. I keep copies of Just for the Summer, One True Loves by TJR, and It Ends with Us in my drawer at work to hand out on demand, as those two books helped me to understand a piece of my life that I lived through and couldn't quite explain how I had done it. Hoover gets a lot of hate, but that book in particular helped me through a really difficult time, and for that I'm very grateful.
This is a really tough question! There are so many good picks, I could truly go on all day.
Historical fiction, thrillers (particularly legal thrillers), and silly romances (a relaxing break from more serious books).
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I'll start!
Harry Potter series. This was probably the first book that really got me into reading. I love that it compels the imagination to transport me to a different world, one of connection and possibility.
Eat Pray Love. I first started solo traveling at the age of 17 and so many people over the years judged me for it (especially considering I would do solo trips as a married woman). This book spoke to that adventurous part of me and reminded me that it doesn’t matter what others think. All I must do in this life is listen and act on what my heart calls me to do. Elizabeth Gilbert perfectly describes this feeling and all that is involved in solo travel.