Books, Books and More Books!

[COCatMama]

Farley Mowat
Diana Gabaldon
Nicholas Evans
Stephen King
and like a ton more!

[Miss Meow]

David Attenborough's autobiography has just been release. Please Santa, read this before 25 December and pop one in my Christmas stocking

[Vermontcat]

Originally posted by anna_66
[B]I love to read, but it seems like I never have the time now that I have a computer
But when I do read, my all time Favorite is:
Stephen King

I am the same way! I don't get to read as much as I used to but my first choice is always Stephen King books!
I am reading Dreamcatcher now and I have 2 other new paperbacks I have yet to read.
I also read my son's Harry Potter books especially between calls at work because it is easy to get back into after I have to put it down.
I am reading the 3rd book in that series.

[ellensy]

When i was a kid, i love reading....

Sweet Valley
Bobsy Twins
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
3 Investigators
Christopher Pike

Now, i love reading...

Danielle Steele
Stephen King
Harry Potter (when's the 5th one coming out anyway?)

[Lillycat]

it was really interesting reading the "list" submitted.....very diverse for the most part. i love to read, always read before falling asleep.....read a great variety of authors....but dont care for scary kinds of books.....not relaxing for before bed for me!

[mugsy]

OHHHH...I forgot about Farley Mowatt....His "Never Cry Wolf" was one of my absolute favorites. I just wish I could show the movie to my kids, but the naked run with the caribou would NOT go over well with our parents.

[kohala]

I really like this thread, because it gives me names of authors to explore that I have not gottne to know yet!! And, people I can ask for "reviews"!!

[Andie]

Originally posted by ellensy

Harry Potter (when's the 5th one coming out anyway?)

June 21 I do believe.

I'm rereading all the Harry Potter books (while waiting for the fifth one)

I love anything to do with vampires, my fav. would have to be The Embrace by Aphrodite Jones. It's about those teenagers down in FL who thought they were vampires and killed the one girls parents. It's kinda sad but it shows how some teenagers nowadays will do anything to be accepted.

I love Amelia Atwater-Rhodes! She's a great young writer (I believe she's 17 or 18) You really don't have to read her other books to understand the next one.

I love all of Anne Rice's Vampires Chronicle except Vittorio the Vampire. Can't wait til For Blood and Gold comes to paperback.

I love any thing to do with legends too. (Urban legends, ghost stories, mythology)

I got Dreamcatcher by Stephen king as a graduation present from my ex-boss that I never read. I've decided I'm going to this summer. (it's so big I was scared I'd never get through it- I got some courage though)

[slleipnir]

I think harry potty #5 comes out on the 20th..it comes out the night of our prom and my friends are like OBSESSED with it

[bluekat]

I LOVE reading too! I want to collect books, I don't have thatmuch, but I have a lot. I also read every night too. I sit in bed and read, and my parents always have to tell me to go to bed because I read too long. I don't have favourites, and favourite authors though. I love Harry Potter and I also like A Series of Unfortunate Events, and all those other fantasy books. I like humour, fantasy, horror, and animal books.
I also love magazines and Archie comics.
Oh yeah, the Harry Potter #5 is coming out June 21! Can't wait! I know everyone at my school will be racing to finish first!

[micki76]

Originally posted by shais_mom
When I was a kid, we loved Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High, Christopher Pike, and Trixie Beldon books. Ahhh those were the days.

Oh, those Trixie Beldon and Nancy Drew books were my favorites. I still have the Nancy Drew series.

Now, I like Nora Roberts (most of hers), Mary Higgins Clark, or John Grisham. Probably the best book I have read in 5 years was A Painted House by Grisham.

[wolfsoul]

My favourite book is Wolves of Time: Journey to the Heartland

I don't have a favourite author, nor a least favourite book. Although I have come across books that I don't enjoy in the least..

[marysmerrycats]

I read Nancy Drew as a kid too
I also like Kay Hooper.
and I love to be able to sit in a bookstore and read, or after gathering a stack of books, to sit down with them and see what all I have picked out, and what I want to buy...LOL

I also have about a dozen books on cats, cat behavior, cat health, etc... I have one of the "the cat who.." books by Lillian Jackson Brown, but can you believe I have not read it yet!

[wolflady]

Originally posted by shais_mom
When I was a kid, we loved Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High, Christopher Pike, and Trixie Beldon books. Ahhh those were the days.

Oh yes!! I loved all of those books too, growing up!! How could I have forgotton about Sweet Valley High! OMG! I used to be so jealous because my best friend had the whole series! LOL I would always just borrow them from her.

Noahsmommy has me hooked on the Left Behind series right now! I was a little unsure at first, but as soon as I started reading the first one...I couldn't put it down! Very good books!

I too am counting the day until Harry Potter V comes out!! I've been re-reading the whole series and am almost finished with book IV now. Gosh...I can't imagine what the fifth one is going to be like!!

[Prairie Purrs]

I read a lot of history--starting this fall I'm planning to read the Lewis and Clark journals day-by-day to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the expedition.

I love everything Scott ("Presumed Innocent") Turow has written. Gregory Maguire's "Wicked" is a favorite--that's a retelling of the Wizard of Oz story from the point of view of the highly misunderstood Wicked Witch of the West. Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin." Anything by Tom Robbins.

And yes, I adore Harry Potter. I've got my preorder in for "The Order of the Phoenix."

For poetry, Sylvia Plath and Billy Collins. Complete opposite ends of the emotional spectrum.