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| country lawyer |
Posted - Dec 13 2007 : 08:33:39 AM
Okay, Farmgirls, what was it? What was THE book you read this past year that you ENJOYED the most? Maybe the one that stayed with you? Or the one with the characters you couldn't forget?Of all the books you read in 2007, does one stand out for you as the most enjoyable? (doesn't have to be meaningful, or moving, or thought-provoking, just enjoyable!)
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| 25 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| yellojewl |
Posted - Jan 22 2008 : 07:44:22 AM
You ladies always have great book recommendations! I just finished Sudden Country and loved it. I have a couple more waiting for me to start that I found on this post |
| rose hill farm |
Posted - Jan 08 2008 : 06:31:57 AM
I truely LOVED this story....
The Glass Castle....by Jeanette Walls
It's now in paper-back! It is a page-turned...I could not rest until I had finished it.
5 STARS!!!
Jule Ann #109
Rose Hill Farm
Donkeys for Peace! |
| Farmgirl Wanabe |
Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 12:01:18 PM
HOMESTEAD - Modern Pioneers Pursuing the Edge of Possibility - A memoir by Jane Kirkpatrick. It was life-changing for us! It intensified our dream of living off the land!
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jan 06 2008 : 3:25:58 PM
A Sudden Country was one of my favorites, too, and Hidden Places by Lynn Austin.
But my favorite was......"Cataloochee" by Wayne Caldwell. A book of the Appalachians - near Asheville. Real place with a great history of the times when the government began to buy land for national parks, and this area is now part of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Great novel.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
| laluna |
Posted - Jan 06 2008 : 11:03:56 AM
Ah, I read several that were excellent - can't really just pick one! To reiterate what some others have alreay said, I loved Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, along with Eat, Pray, Love, and then I really found The Book Thief to be a particularly intense read (it's technically a YA book and I read it because I teach middle school English, but wow, I don't know...it's a story that follows one orphaned German girl during the Holocaust and is narrated by Death).
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." -- Frank Lloyd Wright |
| lmillward |
Posted - Jan 01 2008 : 11:49:45 AM
I'm so glad to see Animal Vegetable Miracle on the list so often! I read the Omnivores Dilemma by Micheal Pollan and led a discussion group for the University I work for about it. Life changing information about how we get and prepare our food and the options we have to work a little better with mother nature and still get what we want. Barbara Kingsolver's book picked up right where Omnivore's Dilemma left off! While I'm here i might add that I re-read The Geography of Childhood by Gary Paul Nabham and was overcome with a desire to promote the message of allowing children to experience nature wherever they might live!
I do go on...
Long live the weeds and the wildflowers! ~John Muir |
| sewgirlie |
Posted - Dec 29 2007 : 4:51:52 PM
Tuesdays With Morrie is an absolute life changer!! You will love it!
My new blog!!
http://downtoearthliving.blogspot.com/ |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 10:04:37 PM
I keep meaning to read Tuesdays with Morrie. I loved Five People you meet in Heaven and For one More Day. I will have to get to that one next!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
| knewslady |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 7:50:27 PM
Whew, I got it finished in time to list it for 2007 and it would have to be Five People you Meet in Heaven. It was such a pleasant read, I would highly recommend it for everyone. I enjoyed it so much that I just ordered Tuesdays with Morrie. Has anyone read this.
Kathy |
| Woodswoman |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 5:42:39 PM
Whoops-sorry-I got typing too fast-I meant Animal Vegetable MIRACLE-by Barbara Kingsolver!
Jennifer |
| Woodswoman |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 5:39:28 PM
Animal Vegetable Mineral!!
I'm reading Eat, Pray, Love, right now-it's great so far! |
| Bridge |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 12:37:57 PM
"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver
And "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant
~~Bridge's Blog~~
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| Mizsuzee |
Posted - Dec 28 2007 : 11:33:01 AM
"Never Change" by Elizabeth Berg
I'd never even heard of Ms. Berg until she was mentioned on a blog that I like to read. Since then I've read quite a few of her many novels. This one really tugged at my heart, since it involved a middle-aged nurse -- I could relate to that! :)
www.mizsuzee.wordpress.com
It's not what you gather, but what you scatter - that tells what sort of life you've lived. |
| mima |
Posted - Dec 20 2007 : 9:22:48 PM
THe Kite Runner...Sad ,disturbing ,poweful!
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller |
| Celticheart |
Posted - Dec 20 2007 : 12:59:55 PM
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and A Sudden Country
"Nature always has the last laugh." Mrs. Greenthumbs
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| Phils Ann |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 08:20:11 AM
Oh, Rhonda... what a great book.
Ann
Sairy Hill Thicket
There is a Redeemer. |
| abbasgurl |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 6:28:58 PM
"Peace Like A River" by Leif Enger-hands down.
I'm a one girl revolution. |
| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 1:57:02 PM
That's a good way to do it, best and worst....
I think the best read has been The Social Lives of Dogs, by Elizbeth Marshall Thomas. It's a follow up to The Secret Lives of Dogs, which I adored. There have been some other good ones, but that's probably the best...
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
| country lawyer |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 1:28:49 PM
Thanks Ann!
What great books you guys have read. My 2007 reads were light-weight for the most part. I kind of liked a break from the heavy stuff this year. I need to add some of yours to my 2008 list.
Anybody else? Best read of 2007?
Hey I can tell you my worst...it is called Nature Girl. (My apologies to whoever wrote it...I'm sure someone likes it.) |
| Phils Ann |
Posted - Dec 16 2007 : 10:20:55 AM
Country Lawyer, I echo Beemoosie-- It IS good to see your post! I love a lot of the books mentioned, but read some of them before 2007, so will go with Quaker Summer, by Lisa Samson. It's the (funny at times) story of a woman who "has it all", along with angst and insecurity. Then she is changed... and it's powerful.
Ann
Sairy Hill Thicket
There is a Redeemer. |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Dec 16 2007 : 12:35:01 AM
For me it was The Mitford books. I loved them all and hated when I got to the last book.
Etsy http://therusticcottage.etsy.com
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http://therusticcottage.blogspot.com
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| sewgirlie |
Posted - Dec 15 2007 : 12:08:02 PM
I think I will have to add Tiffany's to my list now too. It's always great to see what everyone else loves to read. Gives me ideas! |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Dec 15 2007 : 11:20:57 AM
Karin, you will LOVE "Tiffany's" especially if you are old enough to remember that time. Enjoy!
Farmgirl hug,
Patricia
Proud Farmgirl Sister #19
check out my etsy site http://ThePlayfulFarmgirl.etsy.com
Take me home, country roads |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Dec 15 2007 : 05:19:57 AM
"Summer at Tiffany's" has been on my reading list forever. I must get that book!
My fave this year has to be "Behind the Scenes at the Museum" by Kate Atkinson. We read it for Cherry Menlove's (http://www.cherrymenlove.com/book_group/) book group, and I just fell in love with it.
Although, I reread "The Grass Harp", by Truman Capote, and as always it left me breathless. But since it is a reread, it's a close second. :)
Farmgirl Sister
# 18 :)
Wherever you go, there you are.
www.madrekarin.blogspot.com |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Dec 14 2007 : 5:26:35 PM
Sheryl-lyn, I read both of those when I was a teenager back in the dark ages and they made a profound difference in my life, too.
Oh, I forgot one ~ it's called "Summer at Tiffany's" and it's the true story of two mid-western girls who worked at Tiffany's in NY one summer while in college. Talk about culture shock. It was the 50s and things were very very different from the way they are now. Made me feel I was back in time. Many of the things they went through were things I had experienced in my own life. I bought one for my daughter who loved it too.
Farmgirl hug,
Patricia
Proud Farmgirl Sister #19
check out my etsy site http://ThePlayfulFarmgirl.etsy.com
Take me home, country roads |
