Question of the Day, Friday, February 12

[Winchester]

I almost forgot!

What is your favorite book?

For me, it's always been Alice in Wonderland. I first read it when I was a very little girl and I can't tell you how many times I've read it since then. It's the whole make-believe world with the tea party, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter. Everything. My grandmother had a copy of Alice in Wonderland and I read it to tatters. I still read it, probably once a year. As well as Through the Looking Glass.

How about you?

 

[NY cat man]

I have read so many books that it's hard to single out one in particular, but it would be Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie, a chronical of his service in the Marine Corps from post-Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal to Pelelieu, where he was evacuated as a casualty. I couldn't count how many times I've read it, but it's getting pretty well beat up.

 

[neely]

At different times in my life I had different favorite books, e.g. as a child I loved Snow White and Lady & The Tramp, as a teen I loved To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scarlet Letter, most recently I enjoyed Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You.

 

[Katie M]

My absolute favorite is Carl Sagan's Cosmos. I also have a huge volume of the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, my favorite poet.

 

[strider rose]

chicken soup for the cat lovers soul

 

[MonaLyssa33]

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl or The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

 

[Bri5]

Hmmm. For many years it was Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne. But the ones I have reread the most are probably The Big Wave, Little Women, and the Bible.

 

[game misconduct]

the hobbit the book that got my love of reading fantasy books

 

[Lazy Orange House Cat]

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Its like spinning until you're dizzy and fall over. I've read it so many times my book is taped together.

 

[Maria Bayote]

When I was a kid I loved Rapunzel story, and The Mermaid. Fairy tales do help with improving a child's imaginations.
As a teen I liked reading Kahlil Gibran poems.

And as an adult I liked Robert Ludlum books, particularly the Bourne series.

 

[Kat0121]

The Velveteen Rabbit

 

[Tik cat's mum]

As a child it was Black Beauty. I don't have a favourite book now because I've read so many and it changes all the time. I've just given my granddaughter a copy of Black Beauty because that was the book that started my love of reading. Listening to her talk about the book brought back so many fond memories, and the joy of seeing her keep going back to read more was fantastic. I think I'm getting soft in my old age.

 

[Willowy]

The Chestry Oak. It's amazing, try to read it sometime. It might be listed as a "kid's book" but it's not childish.

The Chestry Oak: Kate Seredy, Kate Seredy, Kate Seredy: 9781930900813: Amazon.com: Books

Other books by Kate Seredy are good too.

 

[Norachan]

I have a few;

Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[Willowy]

I like Moby Dick too. I don't like a lot of the "classics" but I enjoy that one. And Captains Courageous.

 

[Mia6]

Killing Me Softly
Sophie's Choice
Rebecca

 

[debbila]

Definitely Gone With The Wind. I love the way everything about the life, the culture, the clothing and the homes are described. The movie doesn't come close to finding out about those things. It's a look back in time. I like history based fiction.

 

[maggiedemi]

I like Autobiographies and Biographies of famous people, Nicholas Sparks, Danielle Steel, VC Andrews. The North & The South was a good book, and Roots.

 

[Lola3791]

The Lord of the Rings series and Six of Crows (I can't pick one book)

 

[fionasmom]

100 Years of Solitude. I have passages marked which I have found so enlightening and insightful into life in general that it is almost like a prayer book for me.