Books and Reading

Okay, so, since I can't put all of my hobbies in the "Hobbies" section, I like soccer, fashion and clothing, cinema, collecting, cooking and dining, books and literture, entertainment, food and drink, government and politics, internet, law, outdoor activities, all music except country and boy bands, animals, I'm more spiritual than religious, basketball, in-line skating, travel, and T.V. Oh yeah, and my celebrity crush is Elijah Wood. This is so cool: ��&��

And I like EVERYTHING except for Boy Bamds and Country!!!! Stupid site wouldn't let me put all of my hobbies on here....

Woah!! You're not ASKING me to put ALL of them on here, are you?? Well, I like The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. Tolkien, Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones, and let's just put is this way:

I love all sorts of books!!!

Books, books and more books. I've amassed about 3,000 in the last 15 years. That's not counting all the ones still at my mother's house that I never managed to bring over.... I re-read them when I go back every year (a few at the time). I like most kinds of books, from European comics (Asterix, Lucky Luke, Olivier Rameau) and children's books like Harry Potter to Nietzsche. Love good mysteries (Elizabeth Peters, P.D. James, Elizabeth George, Caleb Carr etc), love a good laugh (Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde). Can't stand Danielle Steele and the like but appreciate Diana Gabaldon for her sense of humor. Hate horror - gives me nightmares!!! Don't much like biographies - not many people I'm interested in to that point - only ones I enjoyed were Dali's and Wilde's. Mostly enjoy novels (not romances).

The Little Prince, Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

Diary of a Genius, Salvador Dali

Time's Arrow, Martin Amis

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

Fado Alexandrino, Antonio Lobo Antunes

The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Blindness, Jose Saramago

Beloved, Toni Morrison

I'm from the island of Madeira (know where that is???), lived in London for 3 years and then moved to theStates.

I have 2 boys (16 and 7). My hobbies are reading (of course) and yoga. I speak English, Portuguese, French and can make do in Spanish, can understand Italian but can't speak it well. I travel often - love it. I'd love to be able to talk "books" with someone out there...

Books, shopping, da mall, boyz!

Flyy Girl, by omartyee

This site needs a classics category.

and i have called at website at http://groups.msn.com/thejumpoff645789346.

cars, bikes anything that goes fast ... out door sports and animals

all of Dan Brown books

Love to read to re-educate myself and learn something new. Or to be transported through time to a classical romance or intrigue.

Besides sneaking off to yourself, and getting totally absorbed into a fantastic book and reading, I LOVE to write short stories, and children's stories!!! I love to collect antique glassware, coins and very old keys. I love fishing, boating, hiking, dancing, cooking, and landscape gardening design. I enjoy spending time with my family, and my two pets. But, more than anything, I LOVE THE BEACH!!!

Romance, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, and Self-help.

I have read alot of V.C Andrews, Danielle Steele, Stephen King, and Anne Rice. My very favorite V.C. Andrews is, My Sweet Audrina, I have read that over and over!!! My favorite Stephen King is, The Stand, and Cujo. Also, THE ULTIMATE SELF HELP IS, THE FOUR AGREEMENTS, BY DON MIGUEL RUIZ, this book STAYS beside my bed at all times, for periodical reading, while other self helps come and go!

I have been blessed with the joy of reading, along with many other things in my life, another being a wonderful family, good friends, andthe greatest blessing of all, the gift of LIFE itself!

I am an avid reader, but do not have as much time for it as I would like. I have began the very first local bookclub here,(its a small town), and it is doing fantastic! I make time to read the monthly picks for that, and whatever else I can fit in. My writing gets little time as of late, BIG BUMMER!

I hope to learn A great deal from your many different opinions, and comments on an abundance of subjects, and I hope my views do the same for you as well! HAPPY READING FRIENDS!!!

Running, Weightlifting, Reading, and playing Chess.

Sci-Fi (Terry Goodkind), Fiction & Lit, New York History, Chess.

All time favorite- "The Count of Monte Cristo".

43 year old male, married with 4 year old son and a 7 year old cat.

I like computer games and console (video) games. I love to read, hike, and strangely enough to work with children. Some people say they like working with kids meaning that they don't mind, but I actually enjoy and look forward to it. That is the major factor in my decision to become an elementary school teacher. Umm...that's all for now, but I plan on updating this occasionally.

This will definetly be an incomplete list until I get some time to brood over it.

DUNE by Frank Herbert

-The work that went into this book as far as ecology, economy, religion, society, etc would make it worth reading even if it didn't have an engaging plot, which it does.

The Swords (not quite sure on the name) by Fred Saberhagen

-This was a great series. I loved the interplay between the swords of power. It was full of strategic genius and it like the previous book on this list obviously required a lot of thought and contemplation before being written.

Dragonlance this series has multiple authors

-Great fantasy series. It has rich backgrounds that are still being added to as you read (which is really neat). For example, I read the last mini-series in the series first, and then read the first mini-series. While I read the first few books, I realized that the people I was reading about were the hero's of old and legends that were being discussed during the first few books I had read.

Books I have read since joining this community:

Books I am currently reading:

The Mansion by William Faulkner

Stories I have read since joining this community:

Poems I have read since joining this community:

I love reading, listening to music, cooking...and travelling....and meeting people

I love various genres...children to adults....pilitics to romance...I just love to read anything.

photography, writing, weight training, music, painting, people, good movies, old houses and reading, of course

Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson

Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

Anything by Dean Koontz - especially Lightning

The Glory Road - Robert Heinlen

The Chrystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart

I'm one of those people who devour books. If it is a good fast-paced book, I will carry it with me all day and read whenever I have a minute or too and usually finish it up that evening.

I like a historical novel, but mostly I read to escape.

I'm an avid reader (obviously), I also love to cook, work on my kid's scrapbooks, sew quilts, make book marks & magnets, take pictures and dink around with photoshop.

Gone With the Wind, The Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simmons, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik, The Kite Runner (can't remember the Author's name) and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

I'm a stay at home mom of a 3/12 year old little girl and an almost 1 year old little boy. My family is my first passion and my books are a close second.

Reading, of course! I mainly read all kinds of fiction. I do enjoy a non-fiction read sometimes. I also enjoy writing, photography,scrapbooking and genealogy.

I hope you mean to just list one or two because I have so many favorite books.

A couple of favoritesare:

A Widow for One Year - John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

Dive from Clausen's Pier - Ann Packer

My Last Days as Roy Rogers - Pat Cunningham Devoto

The Mitford Series - Jan Karon

Southern Sisters Mysteries - Anne George

Dairy Queen Days - Robert Inman

Stephanie Plum Series - Janet Evanovich

Alphabet Series - Sue Grafton

Kay Scarpetta Series - Patricia Cornwell

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl - Fannie Flagg

Standing Under the Rainbow - Fannie Flagg

-I'll stop there and just say that I also love anything by Nora Roberts, Mary Higgins Clark, LuAnne Rice, Maeve Binchy, Tess Gerritsen, Kristin Hannah, Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Crusie, Elizabeth Berg, Anne Rivers Siddons....

I'll stop now! Oh, I also enjoyed the Harry Potter Series very much and am anxiously awaiting the next one.

I am 74 years old and I have had my own bookstore for thirty five years so I am now one the oldest bookstores in Texas.I share the bookstore Minnie who is convinced that everyone comes to see her. I am here at the bookstore nearly all the time when I am not appearing in plays I have appeared in over a dozen plays and as I was on the play reading committee for years have read a considerable number of plays. I have been a book lover every since I learned to read. I invite any one who has any questions about books to visit me at http://bookman74.tripod.com or visit http://communities.msn.com/YeOleFantastiqueBookShoppe or you can e-mail at charleshall708@hotmail.com It has always saddened that book chat rooms have never brought the folks who like to read. I will work with anyone who wants to change this.

This could be never ending but at this stage of life I like books that make me feel good after reading.

I'M A 38 YEAR OLD WIFE AND MOTHER OF 2. MY SON IS 21, MY DAUGHTER IS 16. I HAVE SEEN IT ALL. I WORK FOR A LARGE RETAIL BOOKSTORE CHAIN AND HORDE EVERY BOOK THAT CATCHES MY INTEREST. MY HUSBAND AND I BOWL ON A LEAGUE ONCE A WEEK AND I WORK PART-TIME IN RETAIL WOMEN'S CLOTHING FOR THE GREAT DISCOUNT THEY OFFER. I MAKE NO MONEY THERE HA HA. WE HAVE 1 POODLE NAMED RENEE LASALLE (RENNY), AND 1 CAT NAMED ROSCOE P. COLTRAINE (ROSCOE). WE RECENTLY BOUGHT OUR FIRST HOUSE TOGETHER. LIFE IS GOOD.

I LOVE LOTS OF BOOKS. I MOSTLY READ GENERAL FICTION. ALL TIME FAVORITE AUTHORS: STEPHEN KING, DEAN KOONTZ.

FAVORITE BOOKS: THE STAND, THE RED TENT, WHITE OLEANDER, SHE'S COME UNDONE, THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER, ECT.,ECT.,ECT.

I HOPE TO MEET AND MAKE LOTS OF FRIENDS AND HOPE I CAN CONTRIBUTE SOME GREAT RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GROUP.

My interests include just about anything. Reading, writing, acting, dancing, eating and tons of other things. I'm in my senior year of college as an anthropology major so you could say that people and culture definitely interest me. I'm an outdoors kinda gal, i spend my summers hiking, camping, canoeing, etc., and i love the ocean and beach. i get out to the ocean any chance i get, which isnt very often. despite what some people think, Lake Michigan is not an ocean

favorite books huh? oh dear, there are way too many. i love romance novels by noraroberts and suzanne brockmann. i love pretty much any kind of romance novel and i enjoy reading stephen king, robert ludlum, iris johanson, and other suspence/thriller/murder/mystery novels. lol, well ill pretty much read just about anything.

I love reading, movies, being with friends and family, and teaching.

A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving), and The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

I love to hear about a great read. Lately, I have been enjoying historical fiction and books that take place in other countries. I love to travel, and also like to hear about teaching in other countries.

Art, Books, Children, Dogs, Education, Fiction, Ghost, Heaven and Hell, Indians (both Native and Indoneasian), Jesters, Knights, Libraries, Monks, Ninjitsu, Opera,....I can keep going.

Anything by Terry Pratchett

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein

naw...nope...nothing to say

I love reading, quilting, gardening, opera, listening to classical and easy listening music, and walking early in the morning.

I have many, many favorites. Some are Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and all of Chaim Potok's books. I like just about every type of literature. Currently I am reading The Two Towers, along with The Greatest Generation and some Iris Murdoch. My favorite "classic" authors are Hemingway, Faulkner, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jane Austen, Edna Ferber, Jack London, and many, many more.

Since I retired I have been able to become active in a group that supports and raises funds for my local library. We have a wonderful timesorting through donated books, (reading a lot of them before we pack them for our sale), selling them, and having book discussion group meetings. We spend a lot of time talking about books and authors, of course.

Reading of course! my dogs, houseplants (belong to a houseplants group at yahoo), roses, learning about autoimmune disorders to improve my health, CFIDS, supplements, aquariums, painting with acrylics, watercolor, genealogy, collecting china, and small figurines.

Anything by Norah Lofts, trying hard to collect all her books. Goldies Hawns book: A Lotus Grows in the Mud, Jodi Picoults books especially My Sister's Keeper, A Change of Heart, The Secret Language of Birthdays, and Doris Rapp's book: Is This your Child?

I sure enjoy this reading group and visit it from time to time.

Reading of course, but also love walking in the country, listening to bob dylan and brucie, and occasionally getting hammered...but not too often.

Ive just finished college and am currently teaching. Im going back to do my masters in American Literature this October if my students haven't eaten me by then.

Im dying to talk to anyone about books though!!!

I love american literature, especially Carver, Ford, Updike, Auster, Tyler etc.

My fave books would have to be 1. The Shipping News 2. Madame Bovary. 3. It. 4. The Age of Innocence. and 5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The book I most admire is 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the three books that I have to read before I die are Moby Dick, The Divine Comedy, and Underworld.

Feel free to send me an email and talk!

My interests center around books. I have a deep passion for reading. I have been reading for at least 25 years. I really like to talk about books and authors.

Some of my favorite books are "Black Wind" by F. Paul Wilson, "Carrion Comfort" by Dan Simmons, the new series by Lee Childs, all of James Pattersons books, "Swan Song", "Stinger", "Gone South", "Mine" etc.,just a few of Robert R Mccammon's books. All the Prey novels by John Sanford, the Lou Bolt series by Ridley Pearson. I could go on for quite a while.

Anyone out there that likes to talk about books can contact me anytime.

I love reading, actually have a capacity for reading very quickly. I love to garden, specifically water gardening, and love to plan things from seed. I am also really into hiking and camping, though I don't get to do either very often.

I also love to design web pages and run several MSN Group for various friends.

I am a big Harry Potter fan, and as a former teacher I advocate getting children to read however possible. I love romance books but I am very picky about how a book is written and how the characters develop before I will recommend it.

My favorite authors range from Suzanne Brockman, to Nora Roberts, along with Jane Austen to J.K.Rowling.

If anyone is interested I am promoting a Ghost Chatter Program and I am looking for a few good people to join me in this program. Email me for more infomration or check out the promotion board for Wanted: Ghost Chatters.

reading, music, meeting new friends, spending time with hubby & kids

Romance, suspense, fiction novels

a couple of my favorite books, Dear Stranger Dearest Friend, The Pilots Wife, Where You Belong , The Wives of Frankie Ferraro.

Hello I'm Loretta I'm 26, married 10 years , got 2 kids, work part time.

I enjoy reading and doing embroidary.I like to be with my children and husband.

My favoriate books are from John Grisham, Mary Higgins Clark and the Willow Girls .

I am a 43 year old female. I have two children one girl 15 and a boy20. I am remarried for the second time to my high school sweetheart. We enjoy reading and spending time together. My husband writes childrens books and we sell them ourselves so far.

My passion is my 7 pets. I love reading, camping, gambling, pen paling, stamp collecting, minatures, beer, football, GO NINERS! and trying to live simply with mindful ways.

The Notebook by: Nicolas Sparks

The Simply Living Guide by: Janet Lurhs

Fortunes Rocksby: Anita Shreve.......stop me before I name every book I've ever read, need to live at the library. smile

Beauty fades but dumb is forever....

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life.<o:p></o:p>

Be kind to one another.

I enjoy reading and belong to a book discussion group that has been meetingmonthly since 1995.

See a bit about me at http://donnaonline.tripod.com

"Pastwatch" by Orson Scott Card

Reading (of course),cooking,gardening,our 3 dogs,playing pc games,and serching out good buys on used books

The Mayfair Witch series

Frakenstien by Dean Koontz

Anything to do with the other worldly things!

I'm so glad I was accepted as a member!! Look forward to meeting ya'll and becoming friends

I like classics from Turner classic black and white movies from drama and film noir such as Hitchcock and Mildred Pierce, to classic TV such as the Fugitive and Perry Mason, to classics in books such as Les Miserables, and Great Expectations, to art such as Renoir, and Monet, to even Coca-Cola!

The Lord is the center of my world, and my four children are the joys of my life!

I love a good book, enjoy a dinner with friends, am awed by a beautiful sunset, cry at a good movie, lend a sympathetic ear, give an encouraging hand up, write a good story, engage in an interesting conversation and savor a great cup of coffee!

I have many favorites! Greats such as Dicken's Great Expectations, Shakesphere' Twelfth Night, The Hawk and the Dove by Penelope Wilcox, Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti, Anne Perry Mystery Books, Hinds Feet in High Places by Hannah Hurnard, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Judge, Jury and Executioner by Huge Freeman, Prince of Tides and Phyllis Whitney Mystery Books to name just a few.

Reading, Writing, Crocheting, Collecting Teddy Bears, Teapots, Computers, History

Too many to mention it depends on what genre I am in, Favorite authors, Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, Terry McMillan, Catherine Coulter.(to name afew)

My mother once told me I would read toilet paper if it had words on it . . . Unfortunately, she was right. When I moved into my current home I had more boxes of books than anything else.

i like to reading books&explain the books to other .i like space &physic&mathematic

i want to continue my education out of mycountry

i like chatting with people about science

i like the physic book specially the book that was published by david holiday

and space books that asimof has published it

life..love.. my chidren..humor..camping..books...sex and not always in that order,{ depends on my mood}. i love to dance & have fun But also like peace & quiet as well

fave authors are clive cusslar, chris mooney, lee child, john grisham, eric l harry,tom clancy, jack higgins, stephen king, james herbet, agatha christie,patrica cornwell to name but a few..

yes i am a bookaholic,i am addicted to books. i have tried to give up but am unable to...forgive me. yes i do have other interests and am just as addicted to those. i am a hopeless romantic who tries not to believe in love,a sex addict who gets none! a mother who believes that children are not owned by parents,..we just bankrupt ourselves til they go away. Anyway please feel free to come chat with me or e-mail me.

I love to read. Like authors such as Ann Rule, M.C. Beaton, James Patterson, Danielle Steele, John Grishem, Mary Higgens Clarck, David Baldacci, Lillan Jackson Braun, Robin Cook and many others.

"Gone With The Wind" is my most favorite book.

I would like to see a chat group started. Like meeting at 8PM EST every evening just to talk about books and what we are reading at the moment. I go to the MSN Books and they sure aren't discussing books. Maybe someone else will like my suggestion.

well i like sewing , cross stiching, cooking, my art, talking to friends, skiting, mountin biking, and of course reading .

the alphabit mystery books, the hobbit, the gift, romance, horror, scifi, history, well i love all books its hard too choosemy favorite.

I am 36 ,I'm married with two teenage boys.

I love classic. Dickens,Poe,you name it I just love to read!

I am happy to have found other who like books.I hope to get to know you all.

I am 15. I love reading and listening to music. I run cross-country and track. I ski, snowboard, bike, hike, and play piano. I played volleyball, b-ball, and tennis when I was younger. I have one brother and one dog. Cya in the message boards!!

All other kids my age are amazed at how fast I read and the fact that I like to read.

I like Joan Bauer, JRR Tolkein, Charles Dickens, and various others. I like the whole Lord of the Rings series. I also like the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan. And others, but I can't remember now.

I finally found a chat group I belonged in!!

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Self-Help...really...I'll read anything...I love to read and to learn...will read milk cartons, anything...I love to read aboutdifferent time periods and learn history from the books from the different periods.

I'm a 36 for year old mom of a 14 year old boy, have been married to my college sweetheart for almost 15 years now (we dated for a few years prior to that). I stay acitve in the affairs of my local town and enjoy learning new things.

My website is @ http://groups.msn.com/SupportforYOURRecovery

This site bugged the fuck out of me at first, but when I started talking to people about The Lovely Bones, it kind of hitme that this site rocks!!