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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jun 20 2006 : 5:39:59 PM
if you HAD to choose just ONE all-time favorite AUTHOR .. who would it be and why?
my choice would be Janice Holt Giles .. i adore her writing style, her stories .. about early pioneer life .. mostlyl in Kentucky.
who is your FAVORITE .. and why?
True Friends, Frannie
My KENTUCKY RAMBLINGS 'blog':
http://cabincreekfarm-kentucky.blogspot.com/ |
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| abbasgurl |
Posted - Jun 26 2006 : 11:50:44 PM
Georgann, I LOVE children's books! There are sooooo many lovely stories & picture books. My boys have shelves full of our favorites. One of my "top ten books of all times" is Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree". Many lessons to be learned from children, & their books!Laura, my middle son loves the writing of Ms. L'Engle. :)
Emily, you have soooooooo much to look forward to! Fiction is wonderful, just wonderful! I read a bit of everything, but never discount what you an learn from great fiction!
Kate, I just read something by Jodi Picoult...now what was it? The Pact? About two teenagers (can't reveal the plot)? Is that hers...very good read.
Rhonda
...and I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance, even if I'm the only one! |
| cmandle |
Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 3:00:18 PM
Amen on John Steinbeck, Aunt Jenny. My favorite of his is "In Dubious Battle."
Catherine
* Proud wife of Dan * Jackson's Mom * Still missing Lucy the Cat... * |
| _Rebecca_ |
Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 2:19:33 PM
Jane Austen is my ultimate favorite. After reading her books I judge all other authors against her and she ALWAYS tops them!
.·:*¨¨* :·.Rebecca.·:*¨¨* :·.
Wife of Jonathan, Mother of Joel, Caitlyn, Elia |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 09:12:39 AM
Cold Sassy Tree has always been a favorite of mine too. Funny and wonderful how we all seem to have alot of similar tastes in reading material!!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| katiedid |
Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 09:02:48 AM
I love Cold Sassy Tree! I re-read it every couple years too! It is so fun and charming, and sad, everything a good book should be. As for a new author, you ladies should check out Jodi Picoult, she is good, and I like how she delves into right and wrong, and shades of grey...they are page turners but not scary...I don't like scary. |
| LJRphoto |
Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 09:00:12 AM
Georgann, I love childrens literature too. I guess Madeleine L'Engle would be my favorite one in that category.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
http://www.betweenthecities.com/blog/ljr/
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| Aunt George |
Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 05:29:21 AM
You are all so well read. I'm embarrassed to say I have been living and reading in the children's literature world for years and have neglected my adult reading, so here is my favorite children's author: Jane Yolen. I'll read anything by her! My favorite adult author: Ellis Peters (pen name for Elizabeth Pargater) She wrote the Brother Cadfael series. |
| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Jun 25 2006 : 04:50:54 AM
Allison
I also loved the ROSAMUNDE PILCHER books, wish she had wriiten more.
NANCY JO |
| happymama58 |
Posted - Jun 24 2006 : 8:55:24 PM
I loved reading all your responses and think this is a great question. I've tried, but I just can't limit it to one -- I guess that's the reason I became an English teacher, that I love so many writers and books! I could probably narrow it down to one per genre, though.
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
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| rabbithorns |
Posted - Jun 24 2006 : 5:05:14 PM
Jill, my stepmom got me into Rosamunde Pilcher and I couldn't stop reading her! But my favorite for years is Charles De Lint. Urban fantasy. Awesome stuff.
http://www.rabbithorns.etsy.com |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 8:12:34 PM
anne rice I jus talways liked Vampires and Ghoast and mummies as a kid. Funny as an adult I am diagnosed with a bleeding disorder and the symptoms are those of a vampire sort of. Pale pale skin ans sunk in eyes white eye lids on hte inside of the eye from being to enimic. My husbands makes jokes that I could just relate to well to the carracters as another symptom is easily twisting ankles and things like that so I am almost always wraped up. I just think it is funny my self al the simalarities the good part is that the real bad characterists I don't have those.
have a lovely day |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 4:47:44 PM
My Antoinia was VERY good. I bet I read it since you recomended it. I need to read O Pioneers..don't think I have.
Jenny in Utah
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 |
| LJRphoto |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 4:42:13 PM
If I can only pick one, it has to be Willa Cather. I think I've read nearly all of them although some I remember better than others. My Antonia and O Pioneers are of course classics.
It's hard to choose just one contemporary although I could probably come up with a top ten list... Richard Russo, Anne Tyler, Kent Haruf... Hmmm, I guess I'll have to put some more effort in to come up with a full top ten list.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
http://www.betweenthecities.com/blog/ljr/
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| Whimsy_girl |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 1:44:16 PM
I have always meant to check out his wife's stuff but doesn't she use a pen name? The book about the superflu is "the Stand" but he revisits it quite a lot in his Dark Tower Series.. actually he revisits a lot of his previous books in that series. It's also just as well written as his other wtuff but not as scary, so if you ever want to check him out again I'd start with that one, or perhaps Eyes of the Dragon. He wrote it for his kids so it's pretty mellow but still a great story.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
| KJD |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 12:45:30 PM
I definitely don't have just one favorite, but one favorite is Peter Mayle, with all his books about life in Provence. I really find him funny. Well, while I'm here - I also love Ann Rivers Siddons, Diane Mott Davidson, Isak Dinesen, Susan Hermann Loomis, and many more! |
| abbasgurl |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 12:41:55 PM
Oh Bobbi! I read a lot of Steven King when I was in high school! The book about the super-flu/they made it into a movie/can't remember the title...LOL was amazing! Scared myself silly-so I had to stop reading him! His wife wrote some good spine chilling stuff too. Have you checked her out?
Rhonda
...and I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance, even if I'm the only one! |
| Whimsy_girl |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 10:38:25 AM
I'll be a black sheep here, but I love something that gives me the willies so I stick with Stephan King.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
| blueroses |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 10:33:10 AM
One author is just so hard, but I'll say Alice Hoffman. Her books are usually about women and their relationships and there's always a bit of mystical, magical things in the stories. Her writing can make you laugh,smile or cry.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 10:16:56 AM
I never usually read two Steinbeck novels in a row either. Like you said..depressing. The only one I never could finish..didn't like it I guess or just wasn't as good to me as the others was "the Winter of our Dicontent". I will finish it someday though. I am stubborn.
Jenny in Utah
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 |
| katiedid |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 09:05:37 AM
Jenny~ I love Steinbeck too. But I have found that if I read too many in a row, I kinda get depressed.
I guess my all time favorite would be To Kill a Mocking Bird, and for some reason I can't think of the other!!
Jody Picoult is good too, and it is fun to wait for a new book to be published.
Kate |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jun 22 2006 : 05:26:06 AM
oh robin .. a kindred soul! i just finished her 'waterman' book .. and it was spell-binding .. i couldn't put it down! not like her usual 'land/farmer' books .. but everybit as beautifully written .. she makes you feel like 'you are there'!
jenny .. oh good grief! cannery row is the steinbeck book that made me know that i never ever wanted to read him ... light? fun? lordy! i must not have given it a chance .. i know it is around here SOMEWHERE .. i'm gonna' try and find it (or get it from the library) and give it another chance! maybe it was jus' WHERE I WAS in my life at the time where i had no patience to sit and read anything that was LONG. thanks gurlfren . .i'll give him another try! xo
True Friends, Frannie
My KENTUCKY RAMBLINGS 'blog':
http://cabincreekfarm-kentucky.blogspot.com/ |
| shepherdess |
Posted - Jun 21 2006 : 11:21:05 PM
Mine would be Janice Hot Giles also. I have several of her Books.
Farm Girl from Western Washington
" From sheep to handspun.
http://mountainmorningfarm.blogspot.com |
| abbasgurl |
Posted - Jun 21 2006 : 9:51:30 PM
OK, Frannie...just one huh? Then I'd pick Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights is on my top ten books of all time. Her sisters weren't slackers either.
I really love Dickens and Nathaniel Hawthorn too. Seeing a trend? ;)
Rhonda
...and I will sing at the top of my lungs, and I will dance, even if I'm the only one! |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Jun 21 2006 : 12:59:49 PM
If I had to pick a favorite it would be Sarah Orne Jewett. Her characters are enchanting and quirky at the same time, and her writing so richly detailed that it makes me ache to be in the place she is writing about!! My favorite- The Country of the Pointed Firs. Just a beautiful, charming book.
Karin |
| Carolinagirl |
Posted - Jun 21 2006 : 12:26:25 PM
Oh, one of my favorite topics. Pat Conroy is my fav, with Lee Smith being an almost tie with him. My fav Conroy book is The Lords of Discipline, and my fav Lee Smith is Oral History. I also really like Diana Gabaldon, who writes the time traveling Outlander series. |
