What is your all time favorite book?

[irishmom3]

irishmom if you like bios and Patricia Cornwell, pick up a copy of Ruth, a Portrait. I absolutely loved it. I had NO idea that Cornwell had practically grown up in the Billy Graham household. She adored Ruth Bell Graham and you will too after you read this book. I've recommended it to many people and they have all loved it.

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I will be on the lookout for it--I've just gotten my first David Sedaris book and am looking forward to it. Now I know what I'll tackle next thank you Library Lady!!

[MonicaW42]

My husband just bought me Patricia Cornwall's newest book Scarpetta to read. I love her books as well. You are right about Ruth being a good book. I liked the fact that Patricia (who has not come out of the closet completely) was not forsaken by Ruth and Billy Graham for her sexual preference, especially with their religious beliefs. Why can't others in society have the same compassion?

[aproposofnothing]

Library Lady: I too have read and loved the "Moonflower Vine." I got it as a paperback from a great aunt, along with some others that were rather pulpy. One of them, "The French Bride," has been on my list of books to find for a while. It was set during the Revolution and I'd like to read it again.

Ahem, topic?
All the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.
Anything by Anne Tyler.
Gone With the Wind, of course.

My main reading interest isn't fiction, though. I like social history, the kind of books that drives my husband crazy; he thinks they are boring.
But I find the research and descriptions of life in another time, and the "big picture" of other events that provides context, fascinating.

But so you realize I am not some closeted socialogist, I also collect Berkley Highland paperbacks. You know, the ones with the bit of tartan plaid on the spine and a story about a teen girl in the 50s deciding if she's going to date a "bad boy" on the inside.

[LibraryLady]

Wow, another Moonflower Vine reader! I'm glad you liked it too.

I thought of another special one. Mockingbird by Charles Shields.. It's an unauthorized biography of Harper Lee. If you saw Capote, it ties in with Truman Capote and Harper Lee's long friendship/rivalry.

on edit: I just read that Harper Collins is re-releasing Moonflower Vine!!!
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780 ... index.aspx

[NCL]

Another vote for Cornwell. I've read them all; latest "Scarpetta". My favorite is usually the last book I read--that would be "Thornbirds". Excellent. Have Centennial by Mischener and a Randy Wayne White sitting on my end table. Can't decide which I'll start, tonight. Well, I've passed my "quota", already, so I'll quit even though my fingers are itching!!!