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Reading Room:  What book has impacted you the most?  |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 09:53:16 AM
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| This is a bit differet - nonfiction - but FastFood Nation scared the bejeebas out of me! |
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Runbikegrrl
True Blue Farmgirl
250 Posts
MaryAnn
Waterbury Ctr
VT
USA
250 Posts |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 10:59:16 AM
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston...without a doubt...the story and the writing is soooo great!
"So many interests so little time!"
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Amybug
Farmgirl in Training
40 Posts
Amy
Grand Island
Nebraska
USA
40 Posts |
Posted - Jul 01 2007 : 12:35:13 PM
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I love to read and have many books I have "loved." The two that have had the most impact on me are, "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Alchemist."
"The secret to a successful life is to take the cards you are dealt and play your best hand with them." |
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Trace
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Tracey
Canton
New York
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2007 : 8:10:02 PM
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Originally posted by Woodswoman
Just about anything by Barbara Kingsolver. Most recently, "Small Wonder"-I actually had to stop reading it at night because I would be up half the night thinking about what I had read. I'm going to read her most recent book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" this summer.
I guess the reason why I like her so much is that when I read her work, I usually find myself thinking "Yes!!! Exactly!!! Someone out there thinks just like I do". 
Jennifer, I am reading "Animal , Vegetable, Miracle" right now. It really makes you stop and think. You view the whole grocerystore dependency thing with new eyes. Why would I buy my eggs at a commerical store, pay MORE and NOT knew who was responsible for feeding the layers and what the layers were fed. In essense, what is my egg made from. I buy my eggs, local, where the layers are free range and raised in a nature organic manner. All this and my dozen eggs cost me 1.25
Nothing else would make sense to me. What I can't raise or grow, I am trying hard to find locally (the huge petro people really don't need my pennies, they have some much already) I have seen this from both sides.. farmer/producer and consumer. Neither one gets a fair shake. The prices you pay for your foodstuffs in the commerical stores are not what the farmer/producer gets. So why should we support the people who would not know a radish from a beet? lol
Can you tell how much I LOVE this book? Lol Sorry for the rant..
Trace
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Trace
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Tracey
Canton
New York
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2007 : 8:16:38 PM
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Originally posted by ranchhandwife
I recently read a book by Jody Picoult - "My Sister's Keeper". Loved it - the story stayed with me for a long time. I plan on reading more of her books.
I also enjoy Nancy Thayer (The Hot Flash Club series) and anything by Nora Roberts and Christine Feehan.
Karen
I also read "My Sisters Keeper" that really was an awesome book. I have her book "Plain Truth"
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2007 : 5:39:05 PM
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It's been ages since I have looked in on Mary Janes's girls. the authors that have affected me most are: Tolkien, Mary Clearman Blue, and a local author named Evelyn Amos. How's that for a strange combination. I was in my middle 20's before I had even heard of Tolkien. When I started reading his books, starting with the 2nd of the trilogy, I did nothing else but read, think or dream about the books. These are the only books of which I have ever dreamed. It was a very hard cold winter, with a new baby, and lots of snow. It took me months to find them all, they were then out of print. If Tolkien was as involved with writing them as I was in reading them, his family must have put up with a lot.
Ms. Blue is an English professor at the University of Idaho. She writes family stories about small time ranching in the Judith Basin of Montana. Her books are haunting and tragic, and true. Ms. Amos was a local woman who with her husband and sons moved onto a small ranch in the winter of 1947-48. This was the worst winter that anyone in our part of the country remembers. They had just barely enough hay to get their cows thru a mild winter, and this one was anything but mild. The winter I read this book was a really bad one for us. It hit home, we had enough hay for our cows, but except that I wasn't packing water from the creek and had electricity, our lives were pretty much the same struggle. Loved reading all your favorites. I also like Janice Holt Giles.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
367 Posts
Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
367 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2007 : 8:25:37 PM
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I'm making a list of these books to look for next time I go to Borders. Whenever I get there I get overwhelmed and end up with mediocre books. Thanks girls!
http://diaryofafarmerswife.blogspot.com/ |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2007 : 10:26:18 AM
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When I was in the 7th grade, roughly 12 years old, I did a book report on William J. Lederer's "A Nation of Sheep" for Civics class, mostly because my parents had just bought it so it was handy. It bent my brain in the direction it's traveled ever since. Here's a quote from the book: "You and I are prisoners of our own government's self-generated publicity. Half the time we don't know what is really going on, and to find out we must apply the torch." (The torch of enlightened and enlightening inquiry, of course.)
And Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." My mother bought up dozens of copies when it came out in paperback, and handed it out to people in plant nurseries the way Hare Krishnas used to push flowers on people at airports. It was almost the family bible. |
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sheepdream
Farmgirl in Training
15 Posts
Diane
Bloomington
Indiana
USA
15 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 5:14:52 PM
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It's hard to pick one, but most recently: INVISIBLE ACTS OF POWER by Carolyn Myss. It's non-fiction and very inspiring---explores the things that people do privately that ultimately impacts people in positive/powerful/spiritual ways.
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls & looks like work." Thomas Edison |
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_Rebecca_
True Blue Farmgirl
568 Posts
Rebecca
OK
USA
568 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 6:34:29 PM
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Oh, this is a terrible question!!! It is impossible to narrow it down.
There are SEVERAL books that I have taken to heart in my life. I think that one that changed my life was one I looked at briefly at the university library and I can't even remember the name of it. But, it talked about Satan being a hand tool in God's hand. It really impacted my thinking on God's rule.
Growing up the books that really influenced me (other than the Bible and some classic writers) were the Laura Ingalls Wilder series, Janette Oke series and to an extent-Michael Crichton's books.
Jane Austen, Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling and Susannah Clarke.
As a mother, Little Men really impacted me. Also, For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Maucalay.
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ColdAntler
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Jenna
Sandgate
VT
USA
89 Posts |
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happymama58
True Blue Farmgirl
1210 Posts
Patti
Missouri
USA
1210 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2007 : 7:44:56 PM
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I've been an avid reader since I learned to read the week I turned 4. My sister wanted to be a teacher, we had the chicken pox together, and she taught me to read while we were sick.
The book that has most impacted me is the Bible, but I'm ashamed to say I didn't really read it much until a little over a year ago. I went from reading it only on Sunday and to prepare for the small group I was a member of, to reading it almost every day because I knew I should, to reading it several times a day because I want to.
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
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ktknits
True Blue Farmgirl
582 Posts
Kathy
Northwest Indiana
USA
582 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2007 : 8:59:54 PM
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Number one is the Bible, in all categories.
The book that hit me the hardest and still haunts me is Hiroshima. We had to read that in high school, and I was just devastated to think that such horror was and is really possible.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a close second--about the Chicago meat packing industry around the turn of the century--maybe because my husband was a butcher for 25 years!
For enjoyment, I like George Eliot, Jane Austin, Bronte sisters, Trollop, and quite a few other 18th & 19th century authors. I see The Red Tent on several of your lists--I have that book but I haven't read it yet--maybe that will be the next one on the list. I also like biographies.
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Carrie W
Farmgirl Legend/Chapter Guru
437 Posts
Saratoga Springs
New York
USA
437 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2007 : 09:07:16 AM
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Thank you Mikesgirl, for reminding me about the Nearings. I had read a book by Rob Roy that mentioned them and wanted to read their book but forgot. I'll order it at the library immediately!
I just read "Chosen by a Horse" by Susan Richards and it was WONDERFUL!! I passed it on to a horse loving friend and can't wait till she reads it so we can talk about it together. It was so well written and a very healing story for me as a reader. You don't have to be a horse lover to love this book, but if you DO love horses, you'll REALLY love the book.
Anyone else read it????
till later~
Carrie
Tis better to weep at joy than to joy at weeping--Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing |
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Carrie W
Farmgirl Legend/Chapter Guru
437 Posts
Saratoga Springs
New York
USA
437 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2007 : 5:15:09 PM
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HappyMama and KTKnits--
Have you ever read The Message??? I am half way through the NT and love it! I have read the Bible in King James, NIV, and Revised Standard, but The Message just really hits home. I'm amazed at how much more I understand the message of Christ!
Carrie M
www.totallykadeshfarm.blogspot.com
Tis better to weep at joy than to joy at weeping--Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2007 : 5:21:47 PM
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This is an easy one - Walden by Henry David Thoreau - he is my soulmate - his lifestyle and quiet and gentle ways won me over in High School!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - Sep 06 2007 : 5:40:14 PM
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| probably A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and To Kill a Mockingbird.....oh! and of coarse- Little Women! |
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garliclady
True Blue Farmgirl
274 Posts
Reidsville
NC
274 Posts |
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therealshari
True Blue Farmgirl
235 Posts
Shari
Beryl
UT
USA
235 Posts |
Posted - Sep 07 2007 : 07:50:31 AM
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I would name The Holy Bible as my #1 book, followed closely by "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. His premise after interviewing several extremely successful people, "if you can believe it, you can achieve it."
"The Ugly American" taught me much about our wastefulness around the world. Another book that I've kept to myself is "The Roaring 2000's" which predicted exactly what is happening today in the housing market, and what it says is coming, isn't pretty...
Shari Thomas
farmer, web copywriter, blogger
Shari's Gone Country
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aimeeravae
True Blue Farmgirl
341 Posts
Aimee
Deer River
MN
USA
341 Posts |
Posted - Sep 07 2007 : 08:13:28 AM
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I loved "Stranger in a strange Land". I reread it often and gleen more from it everytime. There are many books I love. When I realized books could be fun, I was hooked!
http://laplantewardklopf.blogspot.com/
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Mommyswanson
True Blue Farmgirl
463 Posts
Laura
Waukegan
IL
USA
463 Posts |
Posted - Sep 07 2007 : 12:09:08 PM
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I love the Mitford series by Jan Karon. This wonderful set of books has helped me to grow in my faith so much. I often re-read these when I need a clam place to retreat to.
Laura
"That which does not kill us makes us strong!" "I cast all my cares upon you Lord." |
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Reading Room: What book has impacted you the most? |
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What book has impacted you the most?
