Favorite Author

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Hi,I was wondering what book do you all like to read?I like to read Max Lucado books,my husband reads only the Bible(very little else),my eldest son reads Tolkien and Salvatore books(he is also writing a book of his own),my daughter reads R.Heinlein,and my 11year old homeschooled son is struggling through Huck Finn(Mom is Mean).Rather odd bunch arent we.You can tell alot about some one by looking at their book shelves.Just wondering,Willa.

-- willa (goodall6@hotmail.com), January 01, 2002

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And our 2 year old son likes Barney books ,Blue books ,and chicken books(he is the joy of my heart and the tiredness of my fourty year old body).

-- willa (goodall6@hotmail.com), January 01, 2002.

My bookshelves are packed with do it yourself or animal and farm books. I also love Little House on the Prarie and anything with history, expecially with the west and homesteading. There are those few occations where you might catch me reading a romance, but I will promise you is from the 1800 and envolves strong women characters.I read my bible daily and have shelves full of CountrySide Mag,Mother Earth,BWH, and the newest my mom bought for me Ozark Mountianeer. I love books!My son is 6 and loves anything cowboy or indian(Not the story type but the real deal!) and he is facinated with science, body, or animal books.For christmas all his books were for older people. My sister gave him her old Anatomy book from collage and he will set and try and read and look at pictures all night! I hope I can keep up with him!!!God BLess

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), January 01, 2002.

My favorite author is Francine Rivers. I have read everything so far except the five books on different women of the Bible. I plan to get them now that they are all in print. Daughter and I just finished the Elsie Dinsmore series and we really enjoyed it.

-- LaDena,Tx9 (littledena77458@yahoo.com), January 01, 2002.

I have always loved humor. Some of my favorites include Erma Bombeck (of course) Becky Freeman, Phillip Gulley, Robert Fulghum, and Garrison Keillor. I read just about anything I can get my hands on except Scince Fiction. I also love Agatha Christie. I can read these authors over and over again.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), January 01, 2002.

I read almost everything I get my hands on! Upstairs, I have at least 40 feet of paperbacks. I love historical novels with romance in them. They have to be interesting though. I skip over the gushy smoochy parts. (Been there,did that!) We also have at least 4 years of back issues of CS, some oldie Mother Earth News and lots of gardening books. Oh, and I also enjoy reading about sewing.

-- Ardie /WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), January 01, 2002.


My favorite author ever is Gwen Bristow. She wrote books in the 50's or 60's maybe and you should give them a try Micheale as they're historical fiction set in the 1800's. Jubilee Trail is about going west on a wagon train, Calico Palace is about the California Gold Rush. They're about very strong young women of the day. We actually got the name of our daughter, Kendra, from Calico Palace. She wrote more books than those two and they were all good. I like Francine Rivers too LaDena. Have you read Laurine Snelling's Red River of the North series? They're Norwegians that have come to North Dakota in the 1800's to homestead.

My favorite books are written by women (I like the women's view) and are historical fiction. They're so hard to find today though, I've about given up.

Right now I'm anxiously awaiting The Shelters of Stone by Jean Auel. It's the 5th in a series and due to come out in April, FINALLY.

Happy New Year!!!

-- Anna in Iowa (countryanna54@hotmail.com), January 01, 2002.


My favorite writers are Jean Auel and Dorothy Allison. I hadn't heard about the fifth coming out, so now I'm excited!! I've been waiting what seems like forever. Dorothy Allison is a phenomenal writer, and her stories make me so angry/sad that I can't read them too often or for too long at one time (I know, that makes it sound like not such a good book, but trust me on this. She stirs you up). Otherwise, I read alot of spiritual writings and cookbooks.

My husband reads mostly manuals for his trucks and snowmobiles, but really loved a book I had gotten from National Public Radio called Minnesota Days. His nose was always in it.

-- Dawn (olsoncln@ecenet.com), January 01, 2002.


Right now we (as a family) are re-reading, and the kids for the first time, the Tolkein Books, plus lots of Scandinavian, Celtic ledgends and folktales. Our Homestead selection this month is "Shantyboat" and "Paine Hollow" by Harlan Hubbard. I'm also reading "How to Cook a Wolf" by MFK Fischer. We have tons of books, here as we don't have tv.

-- Kelly (homearts2002@yahoo.com), January 01, 2002.

I love romances and was just turned on to Karen Kingsbury's Christian romances. I couldn't wait to finish and didn't want it to end. The one I read was On evil's side. I can't wait to get more.

-- melinda (speciallady104@hotmail.com), January 02, 2002.

Hi willa, hmmm now that's a hard question. I have over 5,000 books in my personal library. Some are Louis L'Amour, some about homesteading, several on underground houses, several hundred 1960's sci-fi. So many authors. I guess I like them all.

Reading beats Television anyday.

-- Kenneth in N.C. (wizardsplace13@hotmail.com), January 02, 2002.



Pat McManus and Erma Bombeck and Bill Wallace. Andrew Greeley and Dr. Seuss.

-- Laura (LadybugWrangler@hotmail.com), January 03, 2002.

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