Books - yes we read too

[KAMommy]

So what is your favorite book or series of books?

As a kid, I loved Nancy Drew. I read everything our library had.

Right now, I am really addicted to the Eve Dallas books by Nora Roberts. She is the detective of the future - I know it sounds hoaky, but they are very good.

My all time favorite book is Gone With the Wind. And I LIKE Scarlett.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Reading..

I read 6th grade school books, 5th grade school books, 4th grade school books on a regular basis to help the kids study...
Which reminds me.. I need to discuss with DD a math problem.. be back shortly! A mommy's work is NEVER done! I think my kitchen floor is still screaming because the mop is still just sitting there!

For fun I pick up a good tabloid...

I really enjoy the Dear America series out now... I loved Nancy Drew as a child... Or even better was Judy Blume's books!!! "Are you there God, It's me Margaret" was a favorite!

 

[lewdyan1]

My all time favorite book is Pride and Prejudice. I read all of the spin-offs from it.
And like someone else said, I like the bodice ripping books!

I also read my fair share of kids books, I substitute teach and have two of mine own! Kids that is!

 

[ddavis860]

I read the fluffy historical romances. I need to be able to put it down and pick it up again in a week, and I don't feel I missed anything. Heck, I can even pick up a totally different book, and start in the same place...they are all the same it seems I figure when the kids are older and I can read without all the interruptions, I'll read the heavier books...

 

[patchchild]

Ok, I admit it. I'm a bibliophile. I have a small house but gave over one of the rooms into a library. Lots of shelves, comfortable chairs, good lighting. All the necessary fixings.

At the moment it's lots of sci-fi and fantasy. My favorite young adult author is Tamara Piece. I found her first Lioness series when I was in junior high. As an adult, I found out she was writing again and now I haunt the young adult section waiting for her new releases. The good part about being a grown-up fan on her is that I can aford the hard covers, unlike when I was a dirt poor teenager. For more adult reading, The Rapsody series by Elizabeth Haydon is wonderful, as is anything by Ursula LeGuin, Robin McKinnley, and Patricia McKillip.

I also find myself devouring fictional special education books and personal stories. It's the special education teacher in me trying to remind myself, after a bad day, there there are happy endings out there for some of these kids. Most of them, I hope.

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

I LOVE to read! That's always been one of my favorite things! When I was little, I read all the time and wouldn't go outside. One day, my mother got mad and told me to go outside and play. I went outside, took my book, and sat down in the yard to read--that's what I wanted to do!

When I was a kid, I read everything, and that hasn't changed! I have to have something to read when I am eating breakfast (even if it's the cereal box!).

I love the Eve Dallas books, too, that KAMommy mentioned. I also like Janet Evanovich and the "Alphabet" mysteries by Sue Grafton. Glad to know we have a bunch of readers here, too!

 

[jonestavern]

like patchchild, our house is devoted to books! all three of us are big readers~

I am presently, finishing up a passel of John Jakes books. Read the North & South trilogy, which turned out providential as we were going to HHI.

As a grade schooler I loved the Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew & Little House & Winnie the Pooh books & anything Jane Austen. I was also the freakish kid--at 12 to 13-- who read Beowolf & Tolstoy Actually, I was reading the Winnie the Pooh series for the 1st time the same time I was reading Tolstoy!
as a teen I also liked James Michener.

I am perpetually reading history for my job, but it is no chore, as I really enjoy it. Now let me tell you the very best bit: DH & DS17 really like to read & really like reading history, also
We all like the Harry Potter series & last year, while on vacation, DH sneaked out on the release date & surprised us with each an HP book of our own
Tell me that's not special!

Jean

 

[KAMommy]

I read the fluffy historical romances. I need to be able to put it down and pick it up again in a week, and I don't feel I missed anything. Heck, I can even pick up a totally different book, and start in the same place...they are all the same it seems I figure when the kids are older and I can read without all the interruptions, I'll read the heavier books...

I love these, too. I have some authors I pick up anytime they write. Stephanie Laurens, Julia Quinn, Amanda Quick, Karen Hawkins, Christina Dodd...the list goes on.

We have shelves lining our garage, and we desperately need more storage. DH reads just as much as me, and the kids are turning out to be just as prolific.

 

[patchchild]

How could I forget Harry Potter!?! How negligent of me.

Thank you J.K. Rowling for proving to the publishing world that children and adults alike will read a 500 page book.

 

[lewdyan1]

Okay this is kind of a confession, but I really do love this book series!

The Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. They have so many fun short and long reads! Don't laugh until you try one!

 

[bevtoy]

Science Fiction.especially things written by the late Isacc Asimov, he was great.

 

[Samantha]

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I am presently, finishing up a passel of John Jakes books. Read the North & South trilogy, which turned out providential as we were going to HHI.

Oh, I love John Jakes, he is one of my favorite authors!! I read the North & South Trilogys a long time ago and then I was so disappointed when the mini series came out since the endings are nothing like the books. I did love reading those books though...I should dig them out again!

I love to read and do so all the time! I remember in high school, I was so into VC Andrews and I still have all of them! Now they creep me out! LOL I love Danielle Steele and just finished reading, Johnny Angel, which was a very quick and easy read! It was good though!

I love anything by James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clark, Dan Brown and Sue Grafton. I seriously will read anything!

I especially love reading Biographies and books about history, specifically the Civil War. I have tons of books in my house, I just wish I had more room to display them all.

One of my biggest "luxuries" (and I say this because I have two children, 8 and 6 LOL) is to leave DH with the kids for a couple of hours and go to Barnes and Noble!! I love to browse all the books and sit and read some. It is my escape!! LOL

 

[dreams91]

Okay this is kind of a confession, but I really do love this book series!

The Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. They have so many fun short and long reads! Don't laugh until you try one!

I get that book for my mom every Christmas. It is expected now!

 

[MeanLaureen]

Okay this is kind of a confession, but I really do love this book series!

The Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. They have so many fun short and long reads! Don't laugh until you try one!

Oh dear.. Dyan and I have yet another thing in common. I have all of these books too. DH Obi-Wan buys them for me at Christmas for my stocking so that he can read them..lol

On to fiction - I don't get to read as much as I used to but I do follow James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell.

I've been reading Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta novels since day one. The first original few were actually based on real crimes around the Richmond area (Patricia Cornwell used to live in Richmond ) All of the places she would write about in her books are real stores and businesses in the Richmond area. In fact she wrote once about her characters Mercedes going to the dealership for service - my former husband was the assistant manager of the Mercedes dealership's bodyshop and often worked on her car (but he never got his name mentioned - shoot) I've even done work for her. I did the rendition of her "Kay Scarpetta" insignia for her business cards and letterhead and I did a portrait of her 2 dachshunds.

 

[ksjayhawks]

As a kid, I loved the Trixie Belden books! My friends and I devoured them! We lived in a small town and all had horses. We used to ride around in the country--there were some abandoned houses--and pretend we were Trixie and Honey and Di and that there were all sorts of bad things going on in those houses and that we would solve the crimes and become famous!! It was so much fun, and then we had to grow up and get summer jobs!