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I stumbled upon this picture a couple of weeks ago, but I thought the idea was so cute, I just couldn't resist posting it. Do you like to read? I love reading! I used to devour entire books in one day when I was younger, but now it's hard to make time to read. The book store is one of my favorite places to be.
My favorite books are The Glass Castle, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The House on Mango Street. I'm currently reading Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls (same author who wrote The Glass Castle) and I'm loving it! I love to read memoirs and peer into other peoples' lives. What are your favorite books? I'm always up for book suggestions!
42 comments on "She who likes to read"
I love to read but haven't been good about it lately (too much time online). I really enjoyed The People of the Book and highly recommend it and Drowning Ruth.
i love mary robinsons photography, its amazing, and i also do love books :)
xx
Reading is such a simple joy. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is amazing. Potentially depressing if you're that way inclined, but overall a short read that made me look at the world in a different way.
I love to read too!
Huge bookstores are my favorite place to be too:) Unfortunately, the biggest bookstores here in Oslo are very small, but I love it when I'm in London and can spend hours at Waterstones! :D
I'm currently reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. by Robert M. Pirsig. I love it so far!
Oh wow I love this photo. Very cute idea. I'm currently chugging through all the Penguin classics/popular classics. Decided I need to get cultured. I have too many favourites. Whatever is freshest in my mind is basically my favourite book :)
I'd point you straight at I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith: all about a young girl growing up in an eccentric family, all living in a crumbling english castle. Amazing. Cannot praise highly enough.
I still love to read fairytales and believe that one can never be too old for that.
Otherwise I'd recommend anything by Umberto Eco, Ursula K. LeGuin or Neil Gaiman.
oh since school work has taken over my life i haven't been reading much, we did, however, have to read One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest which i did enjoy.
I do love Jodi Picoult, she is a wonderful author. Childrens picture books are also wonderful, especially the illustrations.
This photo is just great!
Pearl xo
I love it when you find a good book! The best book I've ever read is:
Any Human Heart by William Boyd.
The way he writes is so beautiful that I found myself underlining phrases and copying out sentences, because I liked the way they sounded so much. And you get totally absorbed in the story; so much so that when it ends, you almost mourn the loss of the character in your life. Truly amazing!
That's a gorgeous photo!
I have been on a reading revival over the last few months. I've never read, or heard of the books you mentioned, so I'm not sure if you'd like my suggestions, but, here they are:
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, and For One More Day - Mitch Albom
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Nancy Wake (biography) - Peter Fitzsimons (Nancy, in all seriousness, is my hero)
Enjoy!
The Perks of Being a Wallflower really struck me! I love that book.
I just finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, which I am totally obsessing over now.
It was strikingly satirical but so well-executed.
i love to read and read... and i also collect books.
Great post dear.
A friend of mine just had a photography shoot and did this with record albums of a couple! It is such a cute idea! Love it!
Trina
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Ooh I loved The House on Mango Street! I recently finished Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (who wrote The Time Traveler's Wife, too). Love her!
i finished half broke horses a few weeks ago. its great!
I am still in love with Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer. The main character in absolutely fascinating and I feel like I know him. And there are so many magical stories within it, all worded super eloquently. (Eventually, I'm going to make a typography/motion graphic animation with some quotes from it!)
You know, I haven't heard of a single one of those books you mentioned but they sound really interesting. On my list of authors to read again are Ian McEwan (Author of Atonement and Enduring Love), Haruki Murakami (Wind up Bird Chronicle), and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude). I really enjoyed these authors last year..
The Perks is definitely one of my favorite books. I love reading and have had to stop in the last few years because school left me no time for it. But now I have more time and am getting back into it. It's always tough for me to decide if I want to pick up a new book or read an old favorite. Milan Kundera is one of my favorite authors and I definitely recommend him.
the devil wears prada :)
love her way to write
xx
Ooh, The Perks of Being a Wallflower was so chilling. Definitely a fave.
I am a bibliophile all the way. The Bell Jar and Catcher in the Rye will always be two favorites of mine, but I've been reading more non-fiction these days. xo.
Yes, it's so hard to make time to read when you're older! It truly sucks because I would like to get back into it.
Some favorites: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safron Foer, Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey, Crossing California by Adam Langer, You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
very cool pic!! love it!!
My favorite books are...
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being
-Still Life with Woodpecker
-House of Leaves
-The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
Recently I've read and loved...
-The Glass Castle (just finished it yesterday, I put Half Broke Horses on my holds list at the SFPL on your recommendation)
-Wide Sargasso Sea (prequel to Jane Eyre, about Rochester's first wife who went crazy)
-Stieg Larsson trilogy
-I Capture the Castle
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Bloodroot
-The Road
-Norwegian Wood
Jonathon Safron Foer - everything is illuminated and extremely loud and incredibly close.
Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Travellers Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry
Scarlett Thomas - The End of Mr Y
Markus Suzak - The Book Thief
xxx
Micaela, where do you go to school? I teach at Balboa High School in SF . . . this is an amazing picture, and reading is such a wonderful, indulgent escape . . .
what a terrific picture!!! totally inspired.
thanks so much for sharing.
<3
I'm reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn right now by Betty Smith and it is just fantastic. Highly recommended!
@Heather Taylor: I read it a couple of years ago and it still remains one of my favorites. It's actually in the list of my favorite books on this post!
you got me at Perks of Being a Wallflower! Oh, how I loved that book. I need to get another copy of it, as I lent it to someone years ago & never saw it again.
Books are such a blessing; I could never live without. :)
I love the idea and think I'm going to do the same for my new Etsy shop that is all about books! I love your blog, by the way :)
my favorite right now is the virgin suicides. such a beautifully written book.
love the picture!! so adorable!
xoxo
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I'm doing reading for Duke of Ed at school :) 'Cause reading's very awesome n' all.
I suggest: Finding Grace by Alyssa Brugman.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is a fabulous book.
I was thinking yesterday about how much I used to read as a kid and how I read very little now. It's a shame. I think studying ruined reading for me!
I love love love this photo. Good find.
i love that photo! it's so darling!
i've never been one to say that a book has changed my life, but there have been two that have got the little wheels spinning in my head and with highlighter in hand, colored almost every single page of each book:
1. man's search for meaning
2. eat, pray, love
if a book gets me to think, meditate and refer back to it, i'm in book heaven.
i really love a tree grows in brooklyn too!
thank you for posting my photo (:
-mary
I'm a huge reader! And I love that photo. Usually end up reading contemporary female writers for the most part, but I really loved Caleb Carr's The Alienist and Angel of Darkness...literary mystery/thriller with incredible interweavings of lat 1800s NYC architecture, history, etc. All time faves include Laurie Colwin's Happy All the Time (and everything else she writes), Jeannette Winterson's Written on the Body.
I adore memoirs too. They're definitely my favourites. I love a lot of other genres as well, but I always find myself coming back to memoirs. Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs) will always be my favourite though.
@Krissy: Oohh, I forgot about that book! I loved that too... it gives you the same chills as The Glass Castle
I love reading, when i was younger i use to hide a book under my desk in my maths class and read while the teacher was going on and on about some really boring topics.
My favorite books are Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber (its a biograpby of Marie Antoinette)
and Great and Terrible Beauty saga by Libba Bray and many many more.
I just finished reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer and I liked it a lot
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