To my fellow readers. . .
missmayeb
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Books, books and more books.
Read in a forum chat about everyone wanting to join a book club. . . .well here you go.
Introduce yourself and a small list of your favorite books.
Read in a forum chat about everyone wanting to join a book club. . . .well here you go.
Introduce yourself and a small list of your favorite books.
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hi there. I love books. have not been able to read much lately but the most recent a week or so ago that I read was Secret Daughter by by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Kavita and Jasu are a poor but loving couple living in the rural town of Dhanau, India. In a society that favors boys and considers girls as a burden, Kavita has to give up her daughter to an orphanage, to protect her life. Meanwhile another couple from America, Somer and Krishnan can’t have a baby and decide to adopt, connecting the lives of these two very different couples separated by thousand of miles. And thus begins this really touching tale of their lives and the daughter who binds them.
List of my favorite books would be difficult but some are: Room by Emma Donaghue, anything by Kate Morton (house at Riverton, Forgotten Garden) Sarah's key, Jane Eyre....just too many to list.0 -
I love Patricia Cornwell!
Any story of mystery and crime will work.0 -
Ooh, book club!
I love to read most anything, but my favorite ever was the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Best.Books.Ever
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Hi all,
I read a variety of books but my favorite genre are YA (dystopian) and Street Lit (Ghetto hood novels).
My Favorite books
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4740898?shelf=favorites-forever0 -
Hi I am excited about a book club.. I love reading and read so many different books..I love books. How is this club going to work.. do we all read a certain book and discuss it...or just discuss the book we are reading now..just curious..0
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Hi everyone,
I've recently finished Land of Stories by Chris Colfer, it's a children's story admittedly but I absolutely loved it 0 -
If we ARE all going to read the same and discuss, I would love to suggest
'Sword of Truth" by Terry Goodkind. Fantasy novel, with a beautiful love story, magic, humor, and totally believable characters (even if they can cast Wizards Fire, or force confessions from anyone)....long, 'can't stop reading!' kinda novel
or
Autumn by David moody...this is the first in a series of zombie apocalypse novels, although the author never uses the term zombie...easy entertaining read.
Anyone have other suggestions?0 -
Yay book club! I hope to get to know some of you!
I love most kinds of books, but have a fondness for chick lit and fiction. :-)0 -
I like some chick lit as well.0
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Thank you, thank you for starting this! I will have to work on my list of books, I devour them. Right now I'm reading the latest from my guilty pleasure, Nora Roberts, The Witness. Off the top of my head, I can suggest White Oleander by Janet Fitch, anything by Ken Follett, Margaret Atwood, Left Neglected by Lisa Genova.0
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Love book clubs! So excited! I hop all over genre's. Over the summer I challenged myself to read all the classics again from high school. It was fun. I like to read a lot of non-fiction, various topics.
Favorite Fiction:
Sookie Stackhouse series
Girl w the Dragon Tattoo series (It's like book crack! So addicting)
Last Non-Fiction:
Fat, Sick, Nearly Dead
I don't read girly books. You won't ever find anything Nicholas Sparks in my home lol.0 -
I love to read!!
Right now I am reading Catherine Coulter's Backfire. I love mysteries and sci-fi fantasy books. Favorite authors are Margaret Weis (Dragonlance books), James Patterson, George RR Martin (Game of Thrones), Terry Goodkind, and many, many more!! I could go on and on.
I have also read the Twilight series although mostly for teenage girls. I got "sucked" into it by a friend of mine!! 0 -
Hi Book Lovers,
My name is Eileen and I'm new to MFP.
I'm in education, so during summer my reading shoots way up, but reading I always make time for good reads during the school year.
Some of my favorite books are:
100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Classic science fiction: Fahrenheit 451, Enders Game, Childhood's End
ANY thing by David Sedaris (truly a LOL writer)0 -
Oh how I love books. My favorite books are "Life of Pi", "To Kill a Mockingbird", and nonfiction. I especially like books about spiritual journeys. The last book I read was "Water for Elephants" which I read for another bookclub. I can't belong to too many.0
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Love mystery books
Mary Higgins Clark
Patricia Cornwell
James Patterson
Alfred Hitcock
Perry Mason
Sherlock Holmes
Nancy Drew & Hardy boys
John Grishom
J.D Robb
Lisa Jackson
Stuart Woods
Mary Jane Clark
Currently reading James Patterson
11th hour & Guilty wives0 -
Hello, I'm Hannah!
I really like sci-fi, dystopian, and fantasy.
To name a few:
- Ender's Game
- Wizards First Rule
- The Dresden Files (working my way through the series.. can't wait til November 27th!! new book release, fyi)
- Old Man's War
- Foundations
- Stiff
- The Bell Jar
- 1984
- The Handmaid's Tale
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I love to read!!
Right now I am reading Catherine Coulter's Backfire. I love mysteries and sci-fi fantasy books. Favorite authors are Margaret Weis (Dragonlance books), James Patterson, George RR Martin (Game of Thrones), Terry Goodkind, and many, many more!! I could go on and on.
I have also read the Twilight series although mostly for teenage girls. I got "sucked" into it by a friend of mine!!
I've been meaning to get into the Game of Thrones... Especially since I actually met George RR Martin at MisCon, this year (and I got to sit on the iron throne).0 -
I love to read. I am currently re-reading Good Omens and The Hitchhiker's Guide series. They're my go to books while I'm waiting for the next book in whatever series I'm waiting for. Dresden is definitely one of my favorites and I'm looking forward to the new one.0
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There are so many that I see that I have read or are on my to-read list. Right now I am reading a couple different books, Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson; Change Your Brain Change Your Life by Daniel Amen and Bound, An Arelia Larue Novel by Kira Saito. I jump all over the place when it comes to book. I think they are great and I want to soak them all up.
I don't know how anyone wants to do this. Would we like to all read one book or maybe have an option of two or three and break up in groups? I know I am not very much into Chick Lit I am more of a Fantasy/Mystery/Horror type of people.
I think my next book is going to be The Witching Hour. Just depends.0 -
This is just great.
I belong to a book club through work but they don't meet regularly enough for me. I've always read the book club book and about four others by the time of the next meet!
Totally up for picking a book and then discussing. I think it would be cool if we all read the same one rather than splitting into genres, then we might discover a gem we might not otherwise have chosen- I know that's what happened to me with my other book club.
Admin could take suggestions from everyone and pick out of a hat? I'm game for whatever, may have to sit out anything gory though...0 -
I'm a complete book fanatic! Not sure I can list all my favorites...my favorite genres are mystery and dystopian novels. I love the Mr. Monk series, Janet Evanovich, Harry Potter Series, Dorothy Howell, Joanne Fluke, Joanna Carl, Hunger Games trilogy, and oh so much more!0
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Reading is my guilty pleasure. I squeeze it in where ever I can.
Most recent favorites are:
Same kind of diff as me & what different do it make? -- Ron Hall / Denver Moore
Still Alice & Left Neglected -- Lisa Genova
Also love historical fiction0 -
Hi all! I just ADORE mysteries and more mysteries! My absolutely favorite is the Maisie Dobbs series...1930's London and I've been having fun listing to audio book on CD on my commute in to work. Just about done with the Agatha Raisin series! What a silly lady!0
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Hello everyone!
I am a librarian's daughter so books have been in my life forever!
I love sci-fi,horror,mysteries..lots of authors.
Some favorites are,but not limited too: Edgar Allen Poe,Clive barker,Greg Bear,Issac Asimov,Mercedes Lackey,Anne Rice, James Moore,Neil Gaiman,Tanith Lee,J.K. Rowling,Stephen King,Jaqueline Carey,Joe Hill,Cory Doctorow,Philip K ****,Douglas Adams,H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury,Orson Scott Card,Gregory Maguire,Herbert Frank,Jane Austin,Charlotte Bronte,Mary Shelley.... and I could go on and on.
I am a voracious reader and love the feel and smell of real books in my hands.
I will try to read almost anything. I love to read,so I do give things a try.
Things I hate...badly written books that you just can't understand who edited them.0 -
Reading is my guilty pleasure. I squeeze it in where ever I can.
Most recent favorites are:
Same kind of diff as me & what different do it make? -- Ron Hall / Denver Moore
Still Alice & Left Neglected -- Lisa Genova
Also love historical fiction
I read Same Kind of Different this year with another book club. It was better than I thought it was going to be. I didn't realize that there was a second book. Thanks for mentioning it.0 -
I love Patricia Cornwell!
Any story of mystery and crime will work.
I love Patricia Cornwell ..have had for years..mystery and crime get me everytime0 -
I love reading, probably thanks to my mother who was a librarian while I was growing up. My favorite genres are scifi/fantasy, but I read a bit of everything from YA to archaeology publications. I am a fan of S.M. Sterling, Frank Herbert, Tamora Pierce, and Jane Yolen to name a few. I am currently reading "The English Governess at the Siamese Court" by Anna Harriette Leonowens. I just finished "Looking for Alaska" by John Green.0
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I like many different authors. Primarily science fiction and historical books. Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, anything by John Twelve Hawks (the Traveler series). I am also interested in DC Comics books, especially Superman, Green Lantern and Adam Strange.
Adam Strange is a DC character who gets beamed by zeta radiation that sends him between Earth and Rann. He is an archaeologist who often spends time in the southern hemisphere. Rann sends zeta beams to the southern hemisphere of Earth. As far as I know, Adam Strange may have disappeared following the last DC event that began in late 2011 but he was around since 1959.
Also, am reading more Christian fiction including such authors as C.S. Lewis.
Currently, I'm reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Splendor of Silence, Laurie King's A Darker Place at roughly the same time. I'm on disability so I have lots of time to read.0
