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conigs25
So in love with this kid!
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Michele
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Ok I need your....
top fave 3-5 book sEVER and maybe an explanation of why. Im on the hunt for new books and NEED recs.
Thanks
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megsm3
Life is Good!!
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Re: Ok I need your....
Ive read a lot of great books but the one book i recommend to everyone is - PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern - it was an amazing book that has been passed on to many girlfriends who all felt the same - it is funny and sad
definitely check it out
Nanny Diaries was hysterical
I love Anita Shreve - The Pilots Wife, the Weight of Water, and the Last Time They Met - were all really good
Jennifer Weiner is also good
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| Posted 9/13/06 9:01 PM |
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dm24angel
Happiness
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Donna
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Re: Ok I need your....
-The Time Travellers Wife Audrey Niffenegger -LOVED IT!!!
-MY Sisters Keeper- Jodi Picoult
-I knowThis much is True- Wally Lamb
-Once upon a day-Lisa Tucker
-Summer Sisters-Judy Blume
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| Posted 9/14/06 4:43 PM |
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dm24angel
Happiness
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Donna
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Re: Ok I need your....
I had to add:
Nanny Diaries
Devil Wears Prada
And Ps. I love you ( I LOVED this book as well so much!)
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| Posted 9/14/06 4:44 PM |
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~Colleen~
my loves...
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guess
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Re: Ok I need your....
Henry & June ~ Anais Nin (she's one of my favorite writers - I love her honesty and rawness)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being ~ Milan Kundera (a philosophical look at life)
Wicked ~ Gregory Maguire (loved the fantasy take on life prior to what we know as the Wizard of Oz)
The Time Traveller's Wife ~ Audrey Niffenegger (a beautifully complicated love story)
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| Posted 9/14/06 5:01 PM |
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skip123
Trying...
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"Shes come undone" - Wally Lamb
"Tuesdays with Morrie"- Mitch albom
"The Five People you Meet in Heaven" - Mitch Albom
"Tis"- Frank Mc Court
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| Posted 9/15/06 8:05 AM |
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sirk1020
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Re: Ok I need your....
I agree with I Know This Much is True
great book!
Lovely Bones
Nanny Diaries/Devil Wears Prada
or classics like
Catcher in the Rye or Great Gatsby
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| Posted 9/15/06 5:06 PM |
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Snozberry
I might steal your diamonds
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Melissa
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Re: Ok I need your....
I know it's old, but I thought it would be a good one to bump.
The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)- I love the way that Euginides tells the story about these girls through the perspective of the neighborhood boys who loved them. Also, he makes the mundane seem beautiful.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) - It's like a big surrealist painting done in words. Though it's the kind of book that you either love or hate.
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) - A love story spanning decades; not exactly conventional. I think that anyone who loves OHYS will love this one, too.
White Noise (Don DeLillo) - It's just fantastic, plain and simple.
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Gertyrae
Peace out Homies!
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Gerty ®
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Re: Ok I need your....
I know this much is true - Wally Lamb
Marley and Me - John Grogan
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
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| Posted 1/21/07 9:20 PM |
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karacg
Babygirl is 4!
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Kara®
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Re: Ok I need your....
To Kill a Mockingbird (my puppy's name is Scout  ) - Harper Lee
Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
100 Years of Solitude - G. Garcia Marquez
The Alchemist - Paul Cohelo
Trinity - Leon Uris
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| Posted 1/22/07 10:44 AM |
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Shanti
True love
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"Catcher in the Rye" (my dog is named Holden!)
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"The Things They Carried"
"The Kite Runner"
"The Tender Bar"
ETA: When I was younger, I LOVED "Where the Red Fern Grows" -- I would suggest that too...
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| Posted 1/24/07 5:48 PM |
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karacg
Babygirl is 4!
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Re: Ok I need your....
Ohh Kite Runner too!!
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| Posted 1/24/07 9:48 PM |
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DRMom
Two in Blue
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Watcher Dean Koontz-This is one of my favorite books ever. i read it a long time ago so not sure if I would still find it appealng-I should read it again.
The Stand Stephen King-loved this book but its about 1300 pages.
Those are the two that stick out in my mind. I have probably read 3,000 books so I can't remember a lot of them
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| Posted 1/25/07 2:25 PM |
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JenBenMen
party of five
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Jen
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Re: Ok I need your....
The Glass Castle
Angela's Ashes
Running with Scissors
The Namesake
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| Posted 1/26/07 10:45 AM |
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sami
So very blessed!! Thank u !!
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Catcher in the Rye I have read that more than once !
To Kill a Mockingbird
Running with Scissors
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| Posted 2/15/07 9:35 AM |
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Whamtastic
LIF Adult
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Big Fat Baby with a Blackberry
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| Posted 2/15/07 5:30 PM |
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LaurenExp
Waiting patiently for baby sis
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L-Diddy EDD 11/11/11 :)
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Re: Ok I need your....
Running with Scissors - Sad and uplifting at the same time
The Kite Runner - Sad story with highlights of hope
I Know This Much is True -- I loved this book so much. I truly felt like I *knew* the characters.
She's Come Undone -- Could relate.
Lovely Bones -- Scary, sad and exhilirating.
Okay -- can't stop at 5
The Last Time They Met
Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
Dry
The Notebook (yes, I'm a geek)
Memoirs of a Geisha
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| Posted 2/20/07 12:59 PM |
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nicrae
He's here!
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Mommy
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Re: Ok I need your....
My favorite books.....
The Kite-Runner was excellent. I actually ordered them for my Juniors to read and they came in last week....very excited
The Other Boleyn Girl is my new favorite.....what a great read!
Hamlet.....I'm a geeky english teacher
Perfect by Judith McNaught....I just love a good romance. I must have read this book a million times!
Anything Jodi Picoult, Lisa Jackson, Tess Gerritson, James Patterson....
The Time Traveler's Wife
There are just so many I can't choose!!!
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| Posted 2/20/07 7:58 PM |
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WhatNow
Say Cheese!
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Re: Ok I need your....
fave books ever, hmmm...
Well, since the PP poster recommends John Irving, I am going o say that my favorite book of his was definitely Son of the Circus
Some of my most favorite, have to re-read once in a while and own a copy books are
Count of Monte-Christo by A Dumas. Beautifully written, facinating story and characters, I read it first when I was 13 and i still love that book to death.
Three Comrades by E M Remarque. Tragic story of love and live set in post WWI Germany
The age of Innocence by E. Wharton. I think everyone knows that one.
The Ladies' Paradise and Doctor Pascal by E Zola. Depiction of live in Imperialist France. I love Zola, but those are my 2 faves.
Anything by Agatha Christie. She is not considered the best mystery writer just for nothing!
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| Posted 2/20/07 11:13 PM |
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Hi-Fi55
12 years...wow....
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Dianne
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Re: Ok I need your....
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
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