What book had a strong affect in your life and why? Did it have a great moral?
What book had a strong affect in your life and why? Did it have a great moral?
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What book had a strong affect in your life and why? Did it have a great moral?
Dancing naked I don’t remember the author but it’s about a young woman who finds out she’s pregnant and discovers herself and what choices she’s got to make
Looking Back To See Maxine Brown she had a story that no one else knew she was a great entertainer and a great writer she told it all about her brother and her family what a story Loved every minute of his brother signed the book for me eight years ago and that book is still my favorite out of all the books i have read
The Handmaid’s Tale. It was the start of feminism for me and it also made me realize how terrifying religion can be in the hands of the wrong people. It also made me realize how important resistance is when you know something is unjust.
I finished reading that book a few weeks ago. Amazing read!
My favourite book. I read it when I was 17 and it was the first time I realised that you can love a book even though the subject matter is horrendous and there is no neat happy ending.
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
It opened by eyes as a child to treating people equally because no matter where you are in life, you could always end up in a different situation.
Princess Bride – don’t take yourself too seriously
Laugh if you want, I do looking back on it…but The Twilight Series. My husband was on his first deployment and I started reading them while he was gone. Then next thing I know, he has started reading them so we can talk about them together when I actually got a call from him. It made me feel like he wasn’t so far away and it helped me get through that first separation. I’ll always have a soft spot for it ?
@Jamie not laughing at all. That’s beautiful.
that is awesome. Whether one likes ANY book or not, if you have read it together, there is a connection. I will always remember Charlie and the Chocolate factory with great fondness as it is a book that my oldest child and I read together (well, I read and we laughed, while his baby brother and sister simply cuddled into me) and it was the last novel that we read together.
My son and I read James and the Giant Peach as our first Roald Dahl book. (His name is James) and it was so special.
Five People You Meet In Heaven. We are so blind as we go through life we don’t always know how we effect others.
All The Bright Places, no matter what you think you never truly know what demons someone else struggles with
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Definitely myth of Sisyphus by albert camus
The Diary of Anne Frank, when I was very young.
The Good Earth and The Diary of Anne Frank and My Antonia both when I was about 12 or 13 now I am 68 and some of their values have helped me so much in life.
Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom.
@Starla I work with the elderly so I get it. It’s great when you take the time to listen to what they say. They have all lead amazing lives and you can learn from them all if you just listen.
Tuesday’s With Morrie got me through a very difficult and dark time. It brought hope.
You can’t help but love Morrie !!! (tuesdays with Morrie)
Rats of Nimh: don’t underestimate or under-respect any life form
@Sara loved that movie. I am 52 and watched the movie last week lol. ALONE!!!
Every time I watch the movie, I have to re-read the book lol
I never liked the movie that much, honestly…book is so much better
Sara Fall I remember the book was better just like “The Resuers” series about Bianca and Bernard, two detective mice. Does anyone remember those Disney movies? Books were better. Also101 Dalmations book was better too.
I agree the books were better but Nimh was one of the VHS we had when I was little and watched about a thousand times. Super childhood memories!
Yes! I loved the Rescuers! There’s a whole book series on them that I just found out about! And agreed on 101 Dalmatians…Perdita was actually the name of the pups wet nurse ?
Conan (all of them). I read these novels at age 11 or 12 and they had a big impact on me because Conan wasn’t magic but he fought all these magical beasts … even gods and always won. It was his strong will, perseverance and sheer physical strength that got him through all of his battles. He NEVER backed down and he always did what needed to be done no matter how difficult; even sacrificing himself to stop evil. I believe it had a lot to do with how I am, have been my whole life, even 48 years later. It had an effect on my parenting also because I never gave up and I always looked for a way to do what I thought was important even against all odds and opposition. Looking back I can see those stories in my determination and the self sacrifice to do the right thing for my family and kids.
The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton. One of the most inspirational books I’ve ever read. It’s about a black man in Alabama who sat on death row for 30 years for a crime he did not commit. He kept his faith, his optimism, and his humanity. He is a shining example of how to transcend suffering and find meaning in life. I highly recommend.
Illusions by Richard Bach. Small book with a huge influence on my perception on life
me too Bonnie
The diary of Laura Palmer had a huge effect on me. The book was not meant to be read by a 12 year old because the content was very mature. But it showed me the effect of abuse and drugs and alcohol in a young teenager and it actually made me very weary of dugs and guys and alcohol. So it has the opposite effect it would have had on the other teenagers
Huck Finn. It was also during the Civil Rights movement, so my eyes got opened wide.
Rollo May’s “The Courage to Create”. Read it in college. It completely influenced my career path and the direction of my life.
Uncle TomsCabin-It taught me aout abuse and cruelty.
I just read that when queen Victoria read the book she cried and mobilized to stop slavery in her colonies.
Man’s search for Meaning by Victor Frankel
@Lela yes!
I couldn’t choose just one book as so many have had a lasting or profound effect on me, but I guess To Kill A Mockingbird still resonates with me 45 years after I first read it. Particularly in a world that seems to be turning more and more to hatred and intolerance.
Not just one book had an impact on me, multiple books have impacted my life. Here are a few:
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Not only have they changed my life, they changed how I view life and the universe. Those are my favorite types of books; books that change you.
Besides the scriptures? I love Louis L’amour books. Such insight and depth!
These would have been my dad’s 2 choices
Every book has had a strong affect.
Bridges of Madison County
Setting free the kites by Alex George. It’s a very heart warming story. Made me laugh. Made me cry. Sort of a mystery in it. Overall my favorite book ever
The Road Less Traveled by Dr.Scott Pack!!
Love the book. Reafermed my conviction that I can be myself and not be concern what others think.
Yes, It is excellent!
A book I read as a kid–My 8 cousins
So very many. I guess the first one that had a huge impact was when I read ‘Auschwitz’ in high school. I must have been only about 15 or so too. But that is when I realised how truly evil humanity can be. More recently, many years later, I read ‘my father, maker of the trees’ and it was one boys testimony of the Rwandan genocide. He hid up a tree for three days or so I think it was, while all around underneath was great bloodshed. But what struck me was that at the end of the killing rampage, the whole country was able to heal and even forgive. So very important to forgive even the most unforgivable.
Ghost Soldiers.
I picked it up in High School because the title was interesting and about halfway though I had an epiphany. “WHOLLY CRAP! THIS IS HISTORY?!?!!? WHY AREN’T THEY TEACHING THIS IN CLASS!?!?!?!”
Shortly after this epiphany my history teacher told me to put down the book on POW’s during WWII and pay attention to the documentary on concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
We watched that same documentary every year.
I’m now a senior history major looking into ways to advocate for education reform.
shall have to look for that one….
Narziss und Goldmund, because I felt like being both of them and totally torn apart because of their love for each other.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck..
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just read it 😉
This one’s on my list!
Love and devotion from Erica James. Because it was a good book about a family life.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. It came to me at exactly the right time of my life while I was in transition and helped to give a narrative to some things I had been feeling for a long time. Great moral as well.
the best and the brightest.
Under an English Heaven Robert Radcliffe. The comradeship of people during World War II