Comments on: Harry and a CONTEST!

By: Dixie

Dixie — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:10:56 +0000

My two favorite adult books of the last few years are The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond, and The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin. Both are novels and are really compelling and hard to put down. My favorite teenage books were My Antonia and Seventeenth Summer. I remember loving The Bobbsey Twins and Little Women when I was a kid.

By: Robin Pearce

Robin Pearce — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:37:32 +0000

Fantasy is my personal fave, but if I had to pick one, The Ordinary Princess is a book I will always pick up and read. I think it was recently republished, but a few years ago I had to search heaven and earth for it:) Every girl needs this book. Amy turns out to have a happier life because she is ordinary.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:51:34 +0000

I had so many “favorites” as a child. I have always been a big reader. One book I remember fondly is The Toothpaste Millionaire. I checked it out so many times in the 4th grade I practically had it memorized. Then during Children’s Lit class in college (I was an Elementary Ed major as well!) I tried to find it for a project. No go…as a matter of fact no one had even heard of it.

I was so excited when I found it in a homeschooling catalog. Needless to say, I snatched it up and am looking forward to sharing it with my boys this year.

As an adult, I love British authors….one favorite series is by Miss Read. Another author I enjoy is Wodehouse. Then of course there is the venerable Miss Austen!

By: Jen c

Jen c — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:41:02 +0000

I really do like all the Harry Potter books. They were the few books I read for pleasure once I went to college.

By: Martha

Martha — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:15:47 +0000

I loved many, many books mentioned here already. As a younger child I enjoyed anything that fed my daydreams about taming wild horses that only I could ride, having a brave Collie dog, and books about large families. I was already in one of those big families but wanted another one. : ) So, Black Stallion, Lad a Dog, The Happy Hollisters, Cheaper by the Dozen were some of my childhood favorites. As an older child, I loved To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus reminded me of my father) and The Diary of Anne Frank.

One of my favorite novels as an adult is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, and the book I’m reading right now, The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani, will undoubtedly be one of my top 10 this year. It’s about a young girl in 17th Century Iran learning to be a rug knotter. It’s a fiber lover’s type of book.

By: betshsu

betshsu — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:20:56 +0000

Lurker here! But, I also just discovered the Looyp Ewe, so I don’t feel too bad commenting for a contest.

So many good books, so many already listed. I’ll throw a few in that I haven’t seen yet (just skimming through the bizillion comments):

Ender’s Game (this one in particular, but the whole series)
The Clan of the Cave Bear series
Sherlock Holmes stories

authors in general: Amy Tan, Barabara Kingsolver, William Gibson, Nick Hornby

By: milly

milly — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:24:09 +0000

Oh Boy, books my other passion! Over all I have to say my favorite is the Bible, I always get something new out of it. But as a kid my favorites were “Mine’s the Best” and “But no Elephants” I’ve saved them both and have read them to every child I’ve known )

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:54:49 +0000

My favorite from childhood that I still read is Pride & Prejudice, although my continued attachment probably has something to do with the Mr. Darcy from the BBC miniseries.

That I’ve read recently–probably Underground by Haruki Murakami. He’s mainly a novelist, but this is a great book about the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in the 90s.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:34:38 +0000

I think that my favorite books were Nancy Drew. I always wanted to be just like her.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:23:55 +0000

I liked anything sesame street growing up. The Monster at the End of this Book is a good one for sure. My son’s favorite now is Curious George’s Opposites… simple book really, but the words are new to him so this is why he likes it so much.