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…Let’s talk Book lovers.
Name a book(s) that got you through hard times…
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This song will save your life…
Though I’ve forgotten the author’s name…
The Spectator Bird, by Wallace Stegner
Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
I loved Glass Castle Jørn Earl Otte
Best. Memoir. Ever.
It is in my top 10!
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, by Matthew Quick
I really loved Forgive Me Leonard Peacock …??
The Harry Potter series
Harry Potter was my childhood…
Janet Evanovich, friend gave me three when I lost my mom.
Also, Stuart MacBride’s Logan McRae series got me through my mom’s passing.
The Bachelor Home Companion by P. J. O’Rourke – it provided some needed laughs during a difficult and lonely time in my life. 🙂
Daphne du Mauria’s Rebecca. A great gothic novel on a chilly night. The love story is romantic and sweet.
Red Rising because it took my mind off all the bs that life has to offer. Great story amazing characters
Five People you Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
The Bible.
Me too! ☺️
Really?….The Bible make me an Atheist!
Yes. Really.
Sad
The Crimes of Jehovah by Mark Mirabello
Clementine in the Kitchen, by Samuel Chamberlain. Delightful if you happy to be a foodie, or a Francophile.
Romans, Chapter 8, Verse 28.
My fav….
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho… I was close to giving up on what I always wanted.
Patricia C. Wrede’s The Enchanted Forest Chronicles.
Samuel 15:2-3
1st or 2nd Samuel?
1st (my face is very red for not putting in the proper quote, I can feel the glare of my Sunday School teacher from the beyond).
Pema Chodron’s “When Thing’s Fall Apart.”
Good grief by lolly Winston
Goodbye, Jimmy Choos, don’t remember the author
The Hiding Place by: Corrie Ten Boom
A series of unfortunate events
Da vinchi code ..
Sisterhood of the traveling pants got me through my divorce.
Paradoxically, Jude The Obscure – at least my life wasn’t THAT bad! Ditto 1984.
The Man on the Ceiling by Melanie Tem , Steve Rasnic Tem
The Little Prince by St. Exupéry and Hector in Search of Happiness by Francois Lelord.
The Bell Jar, Little Women, and The Secret Garden
Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor
Harry Potter
The Outsiders
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
Anything by PG Wodehouse
David Hawkins books.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
In the Meantime
The Dreamgiver by Bruce Wilkinson helped me through nursing school.
An oldie – You can heal your life by Louise Hay, and more recently, The Monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Knight in Rusty Armor by Robert Fisher. Like A Flowing River by Paulo Coelho.
Harry Potter. All of them ?
The Bible
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd.
Paulo Coelho’s ‘Veronika decides to die’
Despite the depressing title, it is a very positive book, embracing life and all its obstacles and weirdness.
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Really, The Bible. It’s the only book that I reread.
Books
Word.
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey when I was a senior in college and suffering from severe depression and anxiety. I wasn’t struggling with addiction, but his story is what got me to tell my parents something was wrong and receive counseling and start taking medication.
Powerful story about a book.
@Cathy The controversy came out about a month after I finished it (Jan ‘06) but I didn’t care. True, not true, partially true – that book helped save my life.
I spent 2005 reading books about places worse than where I was living. It gave me perspective.
AA Big Book
All books.
Moby Dick
Albert Camus’ “The Outsider”
When going through divorce. Non-fiction: Crazy Time. I’ve probably bought 15 copies of it as gifts when friends are going through the same.
Range of Motion Elizabeth Berg
Plus Bible but it is a daily diet
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
The trilogy by Ferrol Sams. It makes me remember how to laugh.
The Martian…The definition of never giving up and keeping a sense of humor nearly all the time. And it’s geeky
Portrait of a lady by Henry James…I had just been released from the hospital and the book kept me busy for several days Stunning writing.
The Bible. hey God it’s me Margaret.
A Thousand Splendid Suns?
The journey of nattie gan. When I was a kid I lobed this book
I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong (memoir)
Way past cool no idea who it was by but I read it as a young teenager growing up in a messed up small city and it was helpful for all sorts of reason
Inheritance cycle by Christopher paolini, Harry potter series and wings of fire series by tui Sutherland
Study Series by Maria V Snyder! Was so in love with the book I didn’t have time to think about certain things!
Furiously Happy, a funny book about horrible things. Jenny Lawson rocks! She
Reading it now. ?
Ann of Green Gables.
little women
Carrie
Nancy Drew
Anything by Jenny Lawson
The Hunger Games series got me through an ankle injury and a break up.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
The Mitford Series by Jan Karon when my beloved daughter was dieing from cancer
The Professor’s Daughter by Emily Raboteau. This book did so much for me. It was like an enlightenment. I will always be in debt to this novel.
Will have to read, strong endorsement! Just uploaded to my kindle.
This book has a special place in my heart because it is what jumpstarts my love for reading books. Every year, I read it at least once.
I highly recommend it.
Gifts from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindberg
Jane Eyre
The Bible
The power of now!
The Harry Potter series and Jane Eyre
Lonesome Dove
The Source by James Mitchner…read it when my husband was deployed overseas.
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed.
And a lot of hate goes toward this book, but I really like Eat, Pray, Love when I was younger and trying to find my path.
Notes to Myself
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
No One Belongs Here More Than You (never actually read it, but kept it in easy view during a particularly challenging time in life)
SARK books
Postsecret books
Glennon Doyle’s Love Warrior.. Taught me something I am holding on
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer.
Whenever I’m upset about something, I find comfort in this book.
Care of the Soul
Tuesdays with Morrie!!
The Bible and The Four Agreements!!
Any book by the late English writer Miss Read. They always restore my faith in people and make me happy.
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Jane Eyre and The Power of Now.
Catch 22 and The Hobbit, during Basic Training after I was drafted in 1968.
Every book I’ve read has gotten me through something ?
Harry Potter series has always given me comfort. I also love to reread Howls Moving Castle and the His Dark Materials series. Mostly Harry Potter though.
Me too. It’s so comforting to read and reread it ❤️
Its a cliche – But Harry Potter. Till today when I am going through some things I reread my books. I get out of my head for a few hours and into this magical world?
Harry Potter! It’s my most repeated read – and it helps me get through times when I’m overwhelmed with life ?
Harry Potter ❤️
The God of small things by Arundhoti Roy
Wonderful book!
One of the best books ever written. Seriously.
The Secret – Rhonda
I reader acknowledges every book
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
East of Eden … “Thou mayest”
I think No Turning Back by Susan Lewis got me through hard times.
Little Women. It was my family, when I didn’t have one.
I love Little Women! I read it every summer for about 5 years straight. It was one of my go-to lake reads as a teen.
@Kellye That’s a lovely image, I see you clearly, now! 🙂
Harry Potter
The Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden
He’s Just Not That Into You. Really. It did.
Everyone is Beautiful Katherine Center
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
The Help
Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg
Love the title
Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham
Jude the Obscure
The Two of Us by Andy Jones and Love by the Book by Melissa Pimentel
The Goldfinch
Yay! You know I love that damn book.
The fireman. I whould pretend I had to calm down or I whould combust with fire and die
“Daddy Long Legs”
I watched the movie 2 years ago now. Heartbreaking ???
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“Welcome To the Ark”- Stephanie S Tolan
“The Alchemist”- Paulo Coelho
“Mexican Enough”- Stephanie Elizondo-Griest
One got me through being the only bookworm in middle school, the next got me through my first years of college and the last showed me there are others like me out there.
All my patients are under the bed by Dr Venuti Cat home visits Vet in New York City. It was given to me to read when my kitty died in 1997. It got me thru a very rough grief period
Any book I could get absorbed in.
The first three Harry Potter books. I started them when I was 10 – the summer after my dad passed. They were a welcome distraction from reality!
Gentleman in Moscow – during and following Hurricane Irma, this book diverted me. I read it by lantern light (battery powered) during storm induced insomnia.
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson ?
The Wild
A court of mist and fury by Sarah J. Maas
The Bible
No More Words. By Reeve Lindbergh about her mother Anne Lindbergh
The Mitford series by Jan Karon gives you a new hometown.
The Art of War